Tattered Banners Lyrics

You used to like to tell me

Tales of the riverboat queen

Talk of the lover that she took that spring

In the days of the in between

He looked like Jean Genet and

Stole to make his way they say

Fell in love with a black haired girl

Followed her far away

Your mother lent us money

That she knew we couldn't pay

Life got hard and it broke my heart

It all just slipped away

Secret Comanche child

Stoned on hope and running wild

See your pagan children

Under the moonless sky

Keep the faith for me

Keep it safe keep it free

Say a prayer for liberty

And all she used to mean to me

Keep the faith for me

In your little box of certainties

Traded in my endless deals

For all these scars that never heal

Tattered banners on my arm

All these tattered banners on my arm

One day I'll see you

From the window of my train

There on the platform

Looking so fine

Dreaming in the rain

Maybe you will catch me

In the corner of your eye

You'll wonder what you really saw

And me I'll wonder why

We said goodbye

Words were there

On the tip of my tongue

They slipped away and we were done

Goodbye

Keep the faith for me

Keep it safe keep it free

Say a prayer for liberty

And all she used to mean to me

Keep the faith for me

In your little box of certainties

Traded in my endless deals

For all these scars that never heal

Tattered banners on my arm

All these tattered banners on my arm

Slip beneath the covers

Slip beneath the moon

Slip beneath the eyes of god

Cos he ain't coming soon

You whisper words to me

So sweet like ecstasy

But all these mysteries

They don't touch me anymore

Keep the faith for me

Keep it safe keep it free

Say a prayer for liberty

And all she used to mean to me

Keep the faith for me

In your little box of certainties

Traded in my endless deals

For all these scars that never heal

Tattered banners on my arm

All these tattered banners on my arm

Tattered banners on my arm

All these tattered banners on my arm