White Flag Warrior

Album: Survival Story (2010)
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  • We request to negotiate
    We come to you unarmed
    We desire to communicate
    You cannot do us harm

    They want sacrifice
    They hatch schemes and ask me to follow their path to the afterlife

    I've got an appetite
    For nice things and pipe dreams that my enemies could be blasted by

    New metaphors
    View that are better for you can't survive if I'm your competitor

    Rise together or fight separate wars
    I pray I'm never forced to be a predator

    Spectres spectate
    We wont last
    They glad to hate
    When gladiators
    Breathe their last
    Scream en masse
    When the dreams do clash
    Like the swords in the wars
    Let me bleed on that
    But they feed on that
    Say we need strong backs
    Call us weak
    If we don't redeem contracts
    But the feast wont last
    When this beast attacks
    The sons and the fathers
    Will be free at last

    This is love this is not treason

    They see sharks in the estuary
    They claim the arc's Bartholomew's
    They say war is necessary
    But we say war is child abuse

    We'd rather make our children martyrs than murderers
    We'd rather make our children White Flag Warriors

    Core-to-core
    Were the ones
    We've been waiting for
    We hold steady
    Steadier than stevedores
    Not tevias or matadors
    On matters of what came before
    Forgive the debts
    To settle scores
    Test the mettle
    Either ore
    Whats your plan got to do with me
    If the bell tolls let freedom ring
    And find new ways if we must be King
    Instead of leading the young to our suffering

    We pass testaments down scream back at heaven
    For testing us like Wednesdays at eleven
    Wanna recruit and train us to act evilly?
    Save it for the shooting range and smack DVDs
    Won't study war no more this millennium
    It's never again to me or anyone
    So think harder when you refer to us
    Rather make our children martyrs than murderers

    They shell dwellings to quell the shelling
    They lift taboos to seduce the cowards
    They say we're too yellow-bellied
    But we say we're the new superpower

    We seek waivers to not be liable
    We claim to speak for a higher truth
    We stand opposed to the homicidal
    We tell you you're fireproof Writer/s: ANDREW GUERRERO, JAMIE LAURIE, JESSE WALKER, KENNETH ORTIZ, MACKENZIE ROBERTS, STEPHEN BRACKETT, TIMOTHY MCILRATH
    Publisher: Bluewater Music Corp., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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