Flags

Now you left yourself there on the wall

Looking up, painted-on teeth, powdered concrete

Here on Earth, the sun in the sky, between my teeth

Looking down, shaking some hand, older than mine

Well, I remember the dealers keeping coins in the speakers

Choked up on the chic of havin' hair like Jesus

The flags are breezing with a brand-new feelin'

Expensive seats full of abandoned reason

The sun cries tears, and they land inside ya

You feel the fear where you once felt pride, yeah

That's when the world got involved, and I woke up older

With a flag of surrender draped across my shoulder

Remember before? When we cared about things like

Who was the tallest, waiting 'round for the adults to stop talking

But they can't see past what absorbs them

When I grow up, I'll do it different

Tryin' to change the world by wishin'

If I could have it all, whatever I liked

I just want everyone to be alright

To get a little respite from the night after night of it

I stitch a tear to my prayer and hold tight

I left myself there on the wall lookin' up

At the pictures in the pebble-dash glistening bright

Listen, I might've drunk one too many years

'Cause when the sun sheds tears now, they set me alight

Now you left yourself there on the wall

Looking up, painted-on teeth, powdered concrete

Here on Earth, the sun in the sky, between my teeth

Looking down, shaking some hand older than mine

Wants you to know everything that you feel, felt it before

Promises so close to the sun, when all's said and done

I cherish it, stitch a tear to a prayer, fly it so they see

See it turn to sails that catch the wind and follow it until it leaves

Well, I remember the dealers keeping coins in the speakers

Choked up on the chic of havin' hair like Jesus

The flags are breezing with a brand-new feelin'

Expensive seats full of abandoned reason

The sun cries tears, and they land inside ya

You feel the fear where you once felt pride, yeah

Listen, I might've drunk one too many years

'Cause when the sun sheds tears now, they set me alight

I stitch a tear to my prayer and hold tight