take that noise out in the street this rubble out from under my feet no rest for the weary in here and make a fuss you re a volunteer these days they lord above me growing mean as they grow shorter like a flag on a closing border now closing right behind you in a crowd down off the hill full of bloodlust and good will we carried pride above our heads like a flag we could cheer to wake the dead and when we could go no further and were drowning on a desert we raised our flag to follow the breath of god but it was blowing every which way i loved you long before i knew love is something one decides to do my vanity and fear conspired belief that love s just a mirror for a thief so when you held me tight against you and i mistook your heart for thunder and like a flag hid behind and under you who could blame me  now i hang my clothes out to dry like waves of surrender they fly the whore of this world looks old and played still she peeks from the alley like a waiting bride s maid laugh or bleed as you need to who of us doesn t know already every flag flies like confetti now 