Sage Francis - Blue lyrics

He was a southpaw but had
A killer right swing
An outlaw inside of the ring
Every now and then he'd be put against
The ropes but then he'd bounce back
Catch a second wind and throw
Blows 'til noses crack
He smashed mouths, he saw red and blacked out
Received a couple pats on the
Back for the smack downs
Negative reinforcement
Never did he endorse it
Had the business sense to wait for
Press conferences to talk shit
He wasn't a dullard
Though he'd never say much
Properly mothered but his father taught him
How to take a punch
It was bare knuckle touch of tough love
When he got drunk enough he took his kid down
To the gym and fit him up with gloves
Tied together with a shoelace
Took em apart put em on
Looked in the mirror
Practiced his screw face
Said, "This is for you, Pops
For all the things we never got to do"
The hottest part of a flame is blue

Now we got children thinking that
They're born to fistfight
Cause they've been promised an apocalypse
By prophets without insight
He coulda fooled us
In fact we're dumbstruck
The school bus is looking like a dump truck
Stuffed in class like a
Landfill until it overflows
Babysitters can't get the students
Off their mobile phones
A junkyard dog is eating
Trash in the cafeteria
Feeling mad at America
The school counselor likes
To recycle psychobabble
The assistant to the teacher is
Just an old TV
Now they've all got the urge to battle
Cause they see a sign that says
"Like to travel? ROTC"
I don't think he can handle
He goes from flannel to camo
Cold putting all the ammo in his gun
He watched channel one
Switched to channel two unplug completely
The hottest part of a flame is blue

We're acting like an enemy is the sea, sky
And land now came across soldiers who did
Nothing but yell, "stand down"
In their spare time inside a shower stall
If not that, they're at the corner
Store playing PowerBall
And when the towers fall
They get protective of this land
And won't stand for anything
To get resurrected
They're waiting for the second coming
The Great Pumpkin deep down
They know they really wanna
Do is break something
That's what they're trained to do
And then they say to you
"Just cause you see the devil in
My eyes don't make it true"
And I say, "true enough"
All that fire in your eyes shows pain
But the flame ain't blue enough