Flobots - White Flag WarriorLyrics

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