Take Courage - Mark Eitzel

Take the rings off your fingers

As if they were tears

And find a new kind of beauty

To put a silver lining on your golden years

All your clever talk and your 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

But your heart was strong

You said, «the dirt can have my pretty things

But to the earth my heart does not belong

If we could walk without our crutches would they have anyting 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 want someone to help you.

don’t get carried away.

last thing you

need right now is a lesson in humility

Take courage.

take courage.

said the sign.

you used to wait for it every

morning.

every morning.

every morning.

but now you see that it was just another

woman