Your Brave Face - Nik Kershaw

Make a joke about it

Make me feel all right

Paint bright colours over it

Paint it out of sight

Change around some numbers

'Til it all makes sense

Put it down, put it down to experience

The rain is coming down, the wind is blowing

The cold is biting, still you’re showing

Your brave face is never fooling anybody

Your brave face is putting on a show

Your brave face

You’ve got to learn to trust somebody

It’s time to live, time to cry, time to let it go

Tell me you can take it

You’re OK more or less

Just another dog’s dinner

Just another fine mess

You don’t need my charity

You can deal with this

Shrug it all off, shrug it all off

That’s the way it is

Smile and tell me shit will happen

When all your life your life’s been slapping

Your brave face is never fooling anybody

Your brave face is putting on a show

Your brave face

You’ve got to learn to trust somebody

It’s time to live, time to cry, time to let it go

I’d like to know how long you think you

Can keep the same expression

Never blinking, never shrinking from the fists you kiss

And I’d like to know how brave

You think that is

I see white teeth shining through the black and blue

Say it out loud, say it out loud, I’ll still be there for you

Your brave face is never fooling anybody

Your brave face is putting on a show

Your brave face

You’ve got to learn to trust somebody

It’s time to live, time to cry, time to let it go