Primal Scream - False Flags (Official Audio)

My name is McDonald, from a small town in Scotland

Like my fathers before me, I would've gone down the mines

But the war against the unions destroyed our communion

When I came of age, there was no work to be found

I left school aged sixteen

Couldn't hold down a job for more than a few weeks

A friend of a friend told me I should apply

For a career in the army, "You'll be set up for life"

I went down to the office, put my name on the list

Recruiting sergeant said, "We'll make a man of you yet"

With rifles and bullets and bayonets they taught me

The ways of a soldier, in my innocence they caught me

Proud of my regiment, uniform and gun

Swore an oath of allegiance to the Crown

I was so proud to serve, salute and enlist

To give my life for the country of my birth

False flags are flying

Young men are dying

For a cause that means nothing

Just a trick on our souls

(Ooh)

(Ooh)

They sold me a lie, like many others, I bought it

They conjured a war, I served and I fought it

Sowed murder in cities, mountains and deserts

The lucky ones stayed, some came home blind and legless

Out on patrol, we found a boy named Mohammed

He shook like a wee frightened bird

An officer said, "Let's play Russian Roulette"

We hooded the boy, put a gun to his head

False flags are flying

Young men are dying

For a cause that means nothing

Just a trick on our souls

When I came home, there was no work to be found

No qualifications, fourth-grade education

Now I drink through the days so that when night-time comes

I won't think of the things that I saw and I done

I took off my uniform, threw it in the bin

For it could not protect me from the demons within

From the war that is raging inside my head

If this is living, I'd be better off dead

False flags are flying

Young men are dying

For a cause that means nothing

Just a trick on our souls

(Ooh)

While false flags keep flying and mothers keep crying

No more will their young men come home anymore