White Flag Warrior - Flobots, Flobots Featuring Tim McIlrath of Rise Against, Tim McIlrath

Jonny 5:

We request to negotiate

We come to you unarmed

We desire to communicate

You cannot do us harm

Jonny 5:

They want sacrifice: they had schemes and asked 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

Brer Rabbit:

Spectres spectate, we won’t last

We 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

Let me feed on that, say we need strong backs

Call us weak if we don’t redeem contracts

But the feast wont last;

when the beast attacks

The sons and the fathers will be free at last

Tim McIlrath:

This is love;

it’s not treason

This is love;

it’s not treason

This is love;

it’s not treason

This is love;

it’s not treason

This is love

Jonny 5:

They see sharks in the estuary

They claim the ark is Bartholemew’s

They say «War is necessary»

But we say, «War is child abuse»

Tim McIlrath/Jonny 5:

We’d rather make our children (We request to negotiate)

Martyrs than murderers (We come to you unarmed)

We’d rather make our children (We desire to communicate)

White Flag Warriors

Brer Rabbit:

Take to the core we’re the one’s we’ve been waiting for

We hold steady, steady on the step of door

The type of you are matadors and matadors are capable

Forgive the death and settle scores and test the metal and the ore

What’s your plan go to do with me?

If the bell tolls us let freedom ring

And find the new ways that we must be king

Instead of leading the young to our suffering

Jonny 5:

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

Tim McIlrath:

This is love;

this is not treason

This is love;

this is not treason

This is love;

this is not treason

This is love;

this is not treason

This is love

Jonny 5:

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

Tim McIlrath/Jonny 5:

We’d rather make our children (We request to negotiate)

Martyrs than murderers (We come to you unarmed)

We’d rather make our children (We desire to communicate)

White Flag Warriors (You cannot do us harm)

Jonny 5:

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

Tim McIlrath/Jonny 5:

We’d rather make our children (We request to negotiate)

Martyrs than murderers (We come to you unarmed)

We’d rather make our children (We desire to communicate)

White Flag Warriors

Jonny 5:

Give to us your courage

Ask us what you will

Demand from us a sacrifice,

But do not make us kill