False Flags Lyrics - Massive Attack

The city chews up clueless blues 

Pays the views and no-man's news 

Blades will fade from blood to sport 

The heroin's cut these fuses short 

Smokers rode a colonial pig 

Drink and frame this pain i think 

I'm melting silver poles my dear 

You beat your wings and then disappear 

The moving scenes and pilot lights 

Smithereens have got us scaling heights 

Modern times come talk me down 

The battle lines are drawn cross this town 

Parisian boys without your names 

Ghetto stones instead of chains 

Talk them down cause it's up in flames 

And nothing's changed 

Parisian boys without your names 

Riot like 1968 again 

The days of rage, yeah nothing's changed 

More pretty flames 

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In school i would just bite my tongue 

And now your words they strike me dumb 

The flags are false and they contradict 

They point and click which wounds to lick 

On avenues this Christian breeze 

Turns us on to more needles please 

Our eyes roll back and we beg for more 

Rephrase this skin and then underscore 

The case for war you spin and bleed 

The cells you fill screensavers feed 

The girls you breed the soaps that you write 

The graceless charm of your gutter snipes 

The moving scenes and suburbanites 

And smithereens got us scaling heights 

Modern times come talk me down 

The battle lines are drawn across this town 

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English boys without your names 

Ghetto stones instead of chains 

Hearts and minds and US Planes 

Nothing's changed 

And English boys without your names 

Riot like the 1980's again 

The days of rage, yeah nothing's changed 

More pretty flames