False Flags Lyrics - Massive Attack

1 The city chews up clueless blues

2 Paints the views in no-man's news

3 Blades will fade from blood sport

4 The heroin's cut these fuses short

5 Smoke is rolled in colonial pink

6 Drink and frame this pain I think

7 I'm melting silver poles my dear

8 You beat your wings and then disappear

9 The moving scenes and pilot lights

10 Smithereens have got us scaling heights

11 Modern times come talk me down

12 The battle lines are drawn cross this town

13 Parisian boys without your names

14 Ghetto stones instead of chains

15 Talk them down cause it's up in flames

16 And nothing's changed

17 Parisian boys without your names

18 Riot like 1968 again

19 The days of rage, yeah nothing's changed

20 More pretty flames

21 In school I would just bite my tongue

22 And now your words they strike me dumb

23 The flags are false and they contradict

24 They point and click which wounds to lick

25 On avenues this Christian breeze

26 Turns us on to more needles please

27 Our eyes roll back and we beg for more

28 Rephrase this skin and then underscore

29 The case for war you spin and bleed

30 The cells you fill screensavers feed

31 The girls you breed the soaps that you write

32 The graceless charm of your gutter snipes

33 The moving scenes and suburbanites

34 And smithereens got us scaling heights

35 Modern times come talk me down

36 The battle lines are drawn across this town

37 English boys without your names

38 Ghetto stones instead of chains

39 Hearts and minds and US Planes

40 Nothing's changed

41 And English boys without your names

42 Riot like the 1980s again

43 The days of rage, yeah nothing's changed

44 More pretty flames