Love is war fought on the run
Without rules but with a gun
My life and love both fly away
They’ll be back or so they say
In dark squadron
In dark squadrons
In dark squadrons

Nostalgia for an ideal gone
So recreate ideals in song
I don’t know what could fuel those dreams
In the playground of dead kings and queens
And dark squadrons
And dark squadrons
And dark squadrons

Wrapped only in your college scarf
And the winter palace of your laugh
Please reconcile me with our times
And then liberate my mind
With dark squadrons
With dark squadrons
With dark squadrons

We we’re the first wave on the beach
The first wave anyone could reach
You got the Mississippi shakes
The worlds gone wrong and my heartbreaks
In dark squadrons
In dark squadrons
In dark squadrons