Flags

[Refrain: Damon Albarn]

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

[Chorus: Grian Chatten]

Well, I remember the dealers keeping coins in the speakers

Choked up on the chic of having hair like Jesus

The flags are breezing with a brand new feeling

Expensive seats full of abandoned reason

The sun criеs tears, and they land inside ya

You feel thе fear where you once felt pride, yeah

[Interlude: Kae Tempest]

That's when the world got involved

And I woke up older

With the flag of surrender draped across my shoulder

Remember before?

When we cared about things like

[Verse: Kae Tempest]

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

Tryna change the world by wishing

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, looking 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

[Refrain: Damon Albarn, Choir]

Now you left yourself there on the wall (Ah-ah, ah)

Looking up, painted-on teeth, powdered concrete (Ah-ah)

Here on earth, the sun in the sky, between my teeth (Ah-ah, ah)

Looking down, shaking some hand older than mine (Ah-ah)

Wants you to know, everything that you feel, felt it before (Ah-ah, ah)

Promises so close to the sun, when all's said and done, I cherish it (Ah-ah)

[Bridge: Damon Albarn & Children's Choir]

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

[Chorus: Grian Chatten, Choir]

(To joy of joys)

Well, I remember the dealers keeping coins in the speakers (Ah-ah)

Choked up on the chic of having hair like Jesus (Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)

The flags are breezing with a brand new feeling (Ah-ah)

Expensive seats full of abandoned reason

The sun cries tears, and they land inside ya (Ah-ah)

You feel the fear where you once felt pride, yeah (Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)

[Outro: Kae Tempest, Choir]

(Ah-ah) 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