Flags!-Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires

[ti:Flags!] [ar:Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires] [al:Dereconstructed] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Flags! (旗帜!) - Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires [00:10.83]Down here we still hoist that old flag [00:12.97]Watch it twist and flap in the wind [00:15.06] [00:16.61]The way it did over the smacking lips [00:18.93]And cracking whips [00:19.77]Of white men selling black men [00:21.61] [00:22.79]Their sons carried it into battle [00:25.07]And died for it [00:26.22]From Gettysburg to Louisiana [00:28.39]For the right to be buried in [00:30.07]Their own separate cemeteries [00:31.55]Underneath that star-spangled banner [00:33.60] [00:36.70]Senior year [00:37.81]You could go deaf from all the talk [00:39.41]Of terrorists and M****m fundamentalists [00:41.74] [00:42.87]And I thought it strange in a town [00:44.74]Where so-called believers [00:45.63]Blew up women's clinics [00:46.83]We had the gall to act so offended [00:49.14]And when it would come time [00:50.84]To say the Pledge in class [00:52.50]I would sit my a** down at that desk [00:54.62]And the only words of it [00:56.00]I said were "under God " [00:58.27]I figured we were beyond [00:59.52]The help of anybody else [01:01.08] [01:02.85]Flags Flags Flags [01:07.24]Flags Flags Flags [01:11.23] [01:11.95]Flags Flags [01:14.74] [01:22.55]Granddaddy unfolds it like a flower [01:24.39]After the Lord's Prayer [01:25.53]Humble and quiet and still [01:27.08] [01:28.11]While the dew still lies on the grass [01:30.58]While the sun hides beyond the old steel mill [01:33.05] [01:34.33]And I place my hand over my little heart [01:36.73]And he holds the salute he held overseas [01:39.26] [01:40.34]And looking up into his shining eyes [01:42.30]I behold a glory that I cannot see [01:45.81] [01:55.01]Like a drop [01:55.95] [01:56.58]In a bucket [01:57.50] [01:58.00]Like dust [01:59.58]On a scale [02:00.85]Insufficient [02:02.02] [02:02.53]Insufficient [02:03.43] [02:04.23]All of y'all's nations [02:05.83]All of y'all's flags [02:07.34]All of y'all's nations [02:08.75]All of y'all's flags [02:10.24]All of y'all's nations [02:11.76]All of y'all's flags