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Take Courage (Live) Lyrics by Mark Eitzel

Songs of Love (Live)

1991

We'll take the rings off your fingers
As if they were tears
And find a new silver lining
To put a polish on your golden years
All the clever talk and your glamour
Bright lies you don't hear anymore
Now you've gone so far out
All you want is the tide to take you back to the shore

Take courage, take courage said the sign
You used to wait for it every morning

Now you are looking so dumb
They don't see you standing there
Trying to figure out why all your promises
Left you hanging in mid-air
And you lost your war of words
Ooh, but your heart was strong
You say, "the dirt can have my pretty things
But to the earth my heart does not belong."

Walk without our crutches
Wouldn't they have anything to offer them?
If we can walk without our crutches
Would they have anything to see?

Take the rings off your fingers
As if they were tears
Cause all the diamonds are hollow
And ring painfully in our ears
And if you ask someone to help you
Don't let 'em get carried away
Last thing you need right now
Is a lesson in humility

"Take courage, take courage," said the sign
Used to wait for it every morning
Every morning
Every morning
But now I know that it was just another warning

About “Take Courage (Live)” by Mark Eitzel

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