Big Big Train - Seen Better Days lyrics

We came from the land From the fields and the hills To the docks and the shipyards To the mills and mining towns Here pa**ed the engines and the men Who made them Their stories are played out We came from the land To the shores of the seas To the banks of the rivers But the last boat has sailed now [Chorus] Seen much better days Out there in the fields and the valleys On the open hills Seen much better days Where the rivers meet the seas Where the bra** bands play a final piece Here we lived and died At the pitheads and the foundries Old headings underground All worked out Smokestacks on the horizon Skeletons of steel on the skyline [Chorus] The power and the glory Lost along the way We were the lads The men of iron The fires that lit the sky The places that we made Our footprints on the land And here we stand Out on the edgelands One last time Fading with the twilight