Talon Cherry - The Ides of Everything Lyrics

Fifty stars for our fifty states, thirteen stripes are on the ground
As we tread, we tread on dreams
As you tread you tread on me

Ballots cast with an empty flask, let us watch another clown
Everything for you and me
In the ides of everything

Winds of change never seem to stray from the patterns I have found
Some how more than not its all or nothing
Every flag that waves, every unmarked grave is another fable bound
Nothings changed that I can see
In the ides of everything

Fifty years on an old mans face, two sons are in the ground
One barely twenty three
Every father on your knees

Countless stripes in an empty grave, as we sound another round
Every tear will find the sea
In the ides of everything

Every poor mans son holds an empty gun, because we cant afford the rounds
While the Generals roll the dice for all or nothing
For fifteen years every flag has flown at half mast in my town
Raised each day by someone free
In the ides of everything

Fifty stars for our fifty states, thirteen stripes are on the ground
As we tread, we tread on dreams
As you tread you tread on me

A free mans thought is dangerous road, to travel in my town
Every war will kill a dream
In the ides of everything

Man cant change when the beats the same in every drum of war we pound
Clasped by chains of change we're changing nothing
Every settled score is another war though the cost is world renowned
Lay to rest another dream
In the ides of everything