The Flag     
             

The phone rings, it's early, it's seven o'clock. 
He says sorry I woke you, but I just had to talk 
you know last night, remember when I 
tried to choke you? 
I didn't mean it, I was drunk, it was only a joke 
you should know that by now, 
when the chequered flag comes down, 
no one no one no one has won the race. 

The next night he's over and over and under 
and after he's finished she lies there and wonders. 
just why does she need him and why does she stay here 
and then in the darkness she'll quietly say Dear, 
you've never really known that when the white flag 
is flown, no one no one no one has won the war. 

They're complicated people leading complicated lives, 
and he complicates their problems by telling complicated lies 
He tells her he's sorry, she tells him it's over, 
he tells her he's sorry, she says over and over 
You've never really known that when the white flag 
is flown, no one no one no one has won the war. 

There goes a forest and there goes a bluebird. 
There goes a partridge and there goes a Go Train. 
There goes an angel and there goes a steeple. 
There goes a cop car and there goes an eagle. 
There goes a raven and there go the ribbons. 
There goes a raven and there go the ribbons. 
There goes a raven and there go 
The ribbons, the ribbons the ribbons 
The ribbons of the flag.
             
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