Take Courage Live) - Mark Eitzel
Well take the rings off your fingers
As if they were tears
Find a new silver lining
To put a polish on your golden years
All the clever talk and the glamour
Bright lies you don't hear anymore
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
And 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
Oh but your heart was strong
You said the dirt can have my pretty things
But to the earth my heart does not belong
If you walk without our crutches
Would we have anything to offer them
If we can walk without our crutches
Would they have anyting to see
Take the rings off your fingers
As if they were tears
Cause the diamonds are hollow
And ring painfully in our ears
And if you ask someone to help you
Don't let them get carried away
Last thing you need right now
Is a lesson in humility
Take courage take courage
Said the sign
I used to wait for it
Every morning
Every morning
Every morning
But now I know
That it was just another warning