The Dead Flag Blues

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
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 And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
 And a dark wind blows
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 The government is corrupt
 And we're on so many drugs
 With the radio on and the curtains drawn
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 We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
 And the machine is bleeding to death
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 The sun has fallen down
 And the billboards are all leering
 And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles
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 It went like this:
 The buildings tumbled in on themselves
 Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble
 And pulled out their hair
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 The skyline was beautiful on fire
 All twisted metal stretching upwards
 Everything washed in a thin orange haze
 
 I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -
 These are truly the last days"
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 You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
 Like a daydream or a fever
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 We woke up one morning and fell a little further down -
 For sure it's the valley of death
 I open up my wallet
 And it's full of blood