• Tear apart our family, offer cash rewards
    Mourn in fragments, continue with our lives
    Togetherness in suffering, an unnoticed requirement
    Overlook the communities to see corporations ruling

    Controlled by hype, we refuse to carry on
    Attention provokes reinforcement, but why not continue to neglect
    For the benefit of one, and daggers to the rest
    We raise our arms above our heads, a mockery of prayer

    Testimonies, though unwritten, prevail
    Liars and the holy join in anger
    While the poor and our counterparts fight for glory
    The rich wage war and we watch the poor die

    Set the last flag as high as you can
    It shows no disrespect, but pride, pride
    Half as insulting as we could ever be
    It shows no disrespect but pride

    Keep the flag up as high as you need
    And higher to show we have pride, pride
    Last of our men, and he's burnt out already
    And we've got nothing left but our pride

    We can keep downfall locked up
    Release it only when we attack ourselves
    The fault of our own can be our success
    As a tactic of guilt and belief in majority

    Separation is a power struggle
    Different lands divided by imaginary seas
    Though we once belonged to one another
    That is a past we choose to ignore

    Set the last flag as high as you can
    It shows no disrespect, but pride, pride
    Half as insulting as we could ever be
    It shows no disrespect but pride

    Keep the flag up as high as you need
    And higher to show we have pride, pride
    Last of our men, and he's burnt out already
    And we've got nothing left but our pride

    And walking the desolate streets can be therapy
    For the children of tomorrow
    And for the tomorrow of a world warfare
    For the fair wage war on those without rights