American Flags in Black & White - John Moreland

You lived a life of pride

You lived a life of pain

Trying to pray away the stormy weather

Sweeping up the dust

Reaching out for yesterday

Yesterday’s a blade sharp as ever

And the well that held those tears

Couldn’t make it one more year

I guess there’s a loser in every fight

Your favorite version of the past

You found in a photograph

American flags in black and white

I promised my belief

I promised lots of things

But promise never brought your kind of message

Cause if it don’t burn up

It’ll blow away next spring

You won’t be combing through the wreckage

And the things that made you feel so safe

Are only on a screen these days

And there’s a loser in every fight

Your favorite version of the past

You found in a photograph

American flags in black and white

And the well that held those tears

Couldn’t make it one more year

I guess we’re the losers in this fight

My favorite version of the past

It’s you in a photograph

American flags in black and white