Maybe it's bricks and mortar now,
Whether or not they run it down
I don't want anything to shake that shape away

No one told us which way to come
Nobody mapped oblivion
So I go growing roses in the disarray


Just like most, falling head in
Til my ghost fills the bed in


So lift it up like a banner
Hold it up over me

If this war is never ending
I'll take this love down with me
Like a banner

Like a banner

I don't need fate to give it time,

It doesn't take pain to change your mind
No weapon can severe the soul from me


Not the sorceress, not the money
All my cleverness, all my cunning


So lift it up like a banner
Hold it up over me
If this war is never ending

I'll take this love down with me
Like a banner
Like a banner


It's around me in my surroundings
It counts me when it starts the counting

In the chaos there is a standard
I'm carrying it like a banner
It's around me in my surroundings

It counts me when it starts the counting
In the chaos there is a standard
I'm carrying it


So lift it up like a banner
Hold it up over me

If this war is never ending
I'll take this love down with me
Like a banner

Hold it up over me
If this war is never ending
I'll take this love down with me