flags - brooke fraser

Brooke Fraser's new album Flags is out now. I am captivated by this beautiful haunting song. Though our lives blow about like flags on the land, there is hope....

Come tell me your trouble

I'm not your answer

But I'm a listening ear

Reality has left you reeling

All facts and no feeling

No faith and the fear

I don't know why the good man will fall

While the wicked one stands

And our lives blow about

Like flags on the land

Who's at fault is not important

Good intentions lie dormant

And we're all to blame

While apathy acts like an ally

My enemy and I are one in the same

I don't know why the innocents fall

While the monsters still stand

And our lives blow about

Like flags on the land

I don't know why our words are so proud

Yet their promise so thin

And our lives blow about

Like flags in the wind

Oh oh oh oh

You who yearn will be comforted

You who hunger will hunger no more

Oh the last shall be first

Of this I am sure

You who weep now will laugh again

All you lonely be lonely no more
Yes the last will be first

This time I'm sure

I don't know why the innocents fall

Why the monsters stand

I don't know why the little ones thirst

But I know the last shall be first

I know the last shall be first

I know the last shall be first