What we could do with in this desperate situation is a smile.
We're nodding and we're winking and I know that we've been thinking for a while
That it's a shame we came up short in the lessons we were taught,
It's a pity we weren't gritty, we didn't go the extra mile...
Ch/
We are no heroes...there you go counting your zeroes
And you can walk like there's nothing to lose
But you already signed up for the dead man's shoes.
What we end up with in this fruitless remonstration is denial.
We're feigning and we're feinting and the pictures that we're painting are on file.
And it's a game we play for real, not a part-time need to feel,
It's so long if we're too strong and you couldn't go the extra mile...
Ch/
We are no heroes.....
...dead man's shoes...
What we depend on when it all comes into focus is some time.
The picture gets much clearer as the end gets so much nearer to the line...
Ch/
Here we are, we are no heroes...
...dead man's shoes.
We're nodding and we're winking and I know that we've been thinking for a while
That it's a shame we came up short in the lessons we were taught,
It's a pity we weren't gritty, we didn't go the extra mile...
Ch/
We are no heroes...there you go counting your zeroes
And you can walk like there's nothing to lose
But you already signed up for the dead man's shoes.
What we end up with in this fruitless remonstration is denial.
We're feigning and we're feinting and the pictures that we're painting are on file.
And it's a game we play for real, not a part-time need to feel,
It's so long if we're too strong and you couldn't go the extra mile...
Ch/
We are no heroes.....
...dead man's shoes...
What we depend on when it all comes into focus is some time.
The picture gets much clearer as the end gets so much nearer to the line...
Ch/
Here we are, we are no heroes...
...dead man's shoes.