Heavy Flag (NOW What's Next!)

I shiver like a paper bag
 The cold can wave a heavy flag
 And nothing shines like silver lines
 When everyone's a paradigm
 And all around is double speak,
 I hide it in a troubled sleep
 In mountains bare on pavement plain
 In waves of pesticided grain
 I recognize the truth when it shakes hands with self-deceit
 Pays for my beliefs and throws away the receipt
 It's all in my head, and then it's nestled at my feet
 Heavy flag
 A farrago of motion sick
 A turbulence arithmetic
 We passed a thousand billboard signs
 And trampled over columbines
 But how do we choke down the pain?
 With nicotine to tease the brain
 Our bladed lives with softened edge,
 We pop our pills and speak our pledge
 I recognize the truth when it shakes hands with self-deceit
 Pays for my beliefs and throws away the receipt
 It's all in my head, and then it's nestled at my feet
 Heavy flag
 SOLO VERSE 3
 Our sympathy's a symphony
 But everyone is out of key
 Cause we locked the doors and turned the blinds
 And left it to the focused eye
 We dug a shallow rabbit's grave
 Deposited our given names
 And when our pride was railroad flat
 Shook away the warmth of a welcome mat
 I recognize the truth when it shakes hands with self-deceit
 Pays for my beliefs and throws away the receipt
 It's all in my head, and then it's nestled at my feet
 Heavy flag (repeat)