| There is a storm at sea
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| If we fly a white flag under a black and blue sky, will the red sun rise?
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| (the taste of your kerosine lips burn me up)
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| If we fly a white flag under a black and blue sky, will the red sun rise?
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| Rise, glare from your enemy sights make me go blind/blinds
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| Divide the sunlight into thin strips, the size of a blade, in this trench that
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| we dig for ourselves
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| Fourscore and fade. |
| glare with the enemy heat of the bodies in the bed.
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| no retreat
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| This is a war we live in. now we’re up in arms (up in arms)
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| With our heads pressed against the wall and it’s wearing thin (and wearing thin)
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| These are the screams we swallow
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| If we fly a white flag under a black and blue sky, will the red sun rise?
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| (the taste of your kerosine lips burn me up)
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| If we fly a white flag under a black and blue sky, will the red sun rise?
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| Rise, the glare from your enemy sights make me go blind
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| This is our war
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| Administer the pill (keep fighting)
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| Before the cell divides (keep marching)
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| We’ll both go down like toy soldiers
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| This is a war
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| Threats and picket lines (keep fighting)
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| Are forming around our beds (keep marching)
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| And the landmines in our chests will all go off in time
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| If we trip each other into this
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| Do you think we’ll find a way out?
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| We’ve synthesized a compound to treat this conscience, it’s:
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| One part loss, one part no sleep, one part the gun shot we heard
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| One part the screams mistaken for laughter, one part everything after
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| One part love, one part stepping out of the driving rain
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| One part parting ways, in the cold apartment. |
| don’t look back
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| Just keep running down the stairs. |
| do you hear the footsteps?
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| Can you hear voices in the traffic, communiques in the attic?
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| They say, after time, all this will heal
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| We will rebuild and these broken arms will mend themselves in our embrace |