Lyrics White Flag - Take One Car

White Flag

White flag, it was a good run while it lasted
The soft earth that caught me so many times before, hit me like a cement wall,
broke every bone of hope in my body, the truth revealed itself to me like the
captain of a sinking ship
Though vultures circle over me, though wolves nipped at my feet,
I was too blind to see, too deaf to hear the funeral horns ringing in my ears,
for years, I refused to see the procession trailing on my feet
It takes a strong man to keep on fighting, & a smarter one to admit his defeats,
but I was neither of these.
Too stubborn to fold, knew not of a retreat,
when I led my horses to water, I drowned everyone that wouldn’t drink
What if everything you thought was gold turned to bronze beneath your feet?
My every foundation built on crumbling sand.
Turns out Eden was a dry and
deserted land, and that beauty in the distance, a plundering harlot who robbed
me blind when I reached her thieving hands
So, go on and tell me that you told me so.
Who needs another’s wisdom when
you’ve got so much of your own?
It’s like comparing a bee sting to a knife in
your chest.
Just keep a smile on the outside while I’m burning up within
And I’ll just carry on like the oblivious do
In the bliss of sweet ignorance, I’ll carry on