Those Sussex boys who play in bars
With rusty strings on old guitars
Who live their lives within a song
Might miss a beat but don't go wrong
In their own world
no one can take that away

The mysteries inside their minds
Are written down in rhyme
Don't matter if it don't make sense
It all makes sense with time
In their own world
No one can take that away

And it ain't the fame they do it for
It used to be, not anymore
It's all about just getting by
And taking off that plain disguise

These are the times of our lives
These are the times of our lives
Our lives, our lives, our lives
Our lives

Well time roles on and age it seems
Embedded in the same old jeans
That wear too thin around the knees
And rip just like their cowboy dreams
It's still their world
And no one can take that away

Might not have rolled the tumbling dice
that Mick and Keith had found
or been the last man standing
Jon and Richie wrote about
But it's still their world
And no one can take that away

They might just make it in the end
And call the world their weary friend
'Cos a fire still burns inside old souls
That paid their dues to Rock n Roll

These are the times of our lives
These are the times of our lives
Our lives, our lives, our lives
Our lives

Those Sussex boys who play in bars
With rusty strings on old guitars
Who live their lives within a song
Might miss a beat but don't go wrong
In their own world
No one can take that away

These are the times of our lives
These are the times of our lives
Our lives, our lives, our lives
Our lives

In this land where I was born
Rich of soil where shadows mourn
Built of toil by men of strength
Long their ghosts reign on our plains

I'll work in my country's mills
I'll walk upon England's hills, England's hills England's hill

In this land that I call home
Our Jerusalem, our Rome
Shall not be beaten in the fight
We will go forth into the night

I'll plant all my country's trees
I'll walk there when England's free England's free
I'll work in my country's mills
I'll walk upon England's hills, England's hills England's hill

In this land, our eyes have seen
Many tears in fields of red and green
But we shall not come undone
'Cos we are one
We're England

I'll sing in my country's halls
I'll walk beside England's falls, England's falls
I'll work in my country's mills
I'll walk upon England's hills, England's hills England's hill

In this land where I was born
In this land where I was born
We shall never come undone
We are one
We're England