Lyrics Flag Song - San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus

You can cry all you like
You can sneer, "Where are the heroes?"
You can shout about how everything's alive
Then the flag goes up

You can snipe at the greed
At the need to be a winner
At the hide, you keep hearing from on high
And you think quite right
And you want to cry
And that flag goes by, and you think that's why
'Cause the flag idea
That incredible idea

What you want to do is brag, I'm part of that
Yeah, I know it's just a flag, okay, but still
For a minute, you say, "If we could, we will fix everything tomorrow"
For a minute you're up there, oh, feeling proud
And then suddenly you're staring at the crowd
And you're thinking there's no need, I can see
There are different from me
As they possibly could be
And you see we are here

And you know it's a dream
And you know it isn't perfect
And at times it may seem to go alright
Then that flag goes by
And no matter how you sigh, it's the bright blue sky
It's just more than apple pie
It's this thing you can't deny

This idea, that it speaks about tomorrow
In our chest, it's a choice
We can change ourselves tomorrow
We're in charge with our voice
And I hear our tomorrow to remember when the flag has gone up