American Flags in Black & White

You lived a life of pride

You lived a life of pain

Trying to pray away stormy weather

Sweeping up the dust

Reaching out for yesterday

Yesterday is a blade, sharp as ever

The well that held those tears

couldn't make it one more year

I guess there's a loser in every fight

your favorite version of the past,

you found in a photograph

american flags in black and white

I promised my belief

I promised lots of thing

A promise never brought your kind of message

Because if it don't burn up

It'll blow away next spring

You won't be combing through the wreckage

And the things that made you feel so safe

Are only on a screen these days

And there's a loser in every fight

your favorite version of the past,

you found in a photograph

american flags in black and white

The well that held those tears

couldn't make it one more year

I guess we're the losers in this fight

my favorite version of the past,

is you in a photograph

american flags in black and white

american flags in black and white