The Cool Courage Of Bomb Squad Officers Lyrics - Robert Calvert

Late in the night he woke to a phone call. 

They'd found a device and it was unstable. 

They'd thrown a cordon and evacuated. 

The cool courage of bomb squad officers 

He walked through the glass doors dressed in a flak-suit. 

The silence was deafening. It was so acute. 

He unscrewed the back-plate revealing the circuit. 

The cool courage of bomb squad officers 

He tried to defuse it, tasting the salt sweat. 

The striped resistors; a nest of insects. 

He touched a component, it started ticking. 

The cool courage of bomb squad officers 

The cool courage of bomb squad officers