White Flag Warrior Lyrics - Survival Story - Flobots

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