
Date of issue: 31.12.2002
Record label: The Island Def Jam
Song language: English
Marches And Maneuvers |
There is a storm at sea |
If we fly a white flag under a black and blue sky, will the red sun rise? |
(the taste of your kerosine lips burn me up) |
If we fly a white flag under a black and blue sky, will the red sun rise? |
Rise, glare from your enemy sights make me go blind/blinds |
Divide the sunlight into thin strips, the size of a blade, in this trench that |
we dig for ourselves |
Fourscore and fade. |
glare with the enemy heat of the bodies in the bed. |
no retreat |
This is a war we live in. now we’re up in arms (up in arms) |
With our heads pressed against the wall and it’s wearing thin (and wearing thin) |
These are the screams we swallow |
If we fly a white flag under a black and blue sky, will the red sun rise? |
(the taste of your kerosine lips burn me up) |
If we fly a white flag under a black and blue sky, will the red sun rise? |
Rise, the glare from your enemy sights make me go blind |
This is our war |
Administer the pill (keep fighting) |
Before the cell divides (keep marching) |
We’ll both go down like toy soldiers |
This is a war |
Threats and picket lines (keep fighting) |
Are forming around our beds (keep marching) |
And the landmines in our chests will all go off in time |
If we trip each other into this |
Do you think we’ll find a way out? |
We’ve synthesized a compound to treat this conscience, it’s: |
One part loss, one part no sleep, one part the gun shot we heard |
One part the screams mistaken for laughter, one part everything after |
One part love, one part stepping out of the driving rain |
One part parting ways, in the cold apartment. |
don’t look back |
Just keep running down the stairs. |
do you hear the footsteps? |
Can you hear voices in the traffic, communiques in the attic? |
They say, after time, all this will heal |
We will rebuild and these broken arms will mend themselves in our embrace |
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