[ti:False Flags]
[ar:Massive Attack]
[al:Collected]
[00:00.00]Massive Attack - False Flags
[00:20.60]In city shoes
[00:22.16]Of clueless blues
[00:23.95]Pays the views
[00:25.39]And no-mans news
[00:27.26]Blades will fade from blood to sport
[00:30.56]The heroin s cut these fuses short
[00:33.89]Smokers rode a colonial pig
[00:37.23]Drink and frame this pain i think
[00:40.49]I m melting silver poles my dear
[00:43.86]You bleed your wings and then disappear
[00:47.12]The moving scenes and pilot lights
[00:50.63]Smithereens have got em scaling heights
[00:53.91][02:13.88]Modern times come talk me down
[00:57.21]And battle lines are drawn across this town
[01:00.59][01:13.94]Parisian boys without your names
[01:03.94][02:23.97]Ghetto stones instead of chains
[01:07.25]Talk em down cause it s up in flames
[01:10.56]And nothing s changed
[01:17.25]Riot like 1968 again
[01:20.56][02:40.50]The days of rage yeah nothing s changed
[01:23.79]Well pretty flames
[01:26.85]In school i would just bite my tongue
[01:30.54]And now your words they strike me down
[01:33.85]The flags are false and they contradict
[01:37.16]They point and click which wounds to lick
[01:40.58]On avenues this christian breeze
[01:43.91]Turns its heart to more needles please
[01:47.25]Our eyes roll back and we beg for more
[01:50.57]It frays this skin and then underscore
[01:53.86]The case for war you spin and bleed
[01:57.21]The sales you feel screensavers feed
[02:00.55]The girls you breed the soaps that you write
[02:03.89]The graceless charm of your gutter snipes
[02:07.20]The moving scenes and suburbanites
[02:10.55]And smithereens got em scaling heights
[02:17.22]The battle lines are drawn across this town
[02:20.60]English boys without your names
[02:27.22]Hearts and minds and Planes
[02:30.60]Nothing s changed
[02:33.94]And english boys without your names
[02:37.31]Riot like the 1980 s again
[02:43.75]More pretty flames