So I just listened to a song by the Born Ruffians, good band, and the lyrics had me thinking, what ideas do we associate with colours and how does that change when we see those colors on a flag? It seems pretty intense to see a flag and think that the red there is supposed to commemorate the blood shed by people defending it, I mean they died for a stretch of land and ideas behind some coloured matieral. But Napoleon did once say he could train soldiers so well that they would give their lives up for a piece of string, but I feel like it is a good thing that we still have people who can believe so strongly in ideas that they would give themselves up for it. It's those people that I wish instead of joining the military would take up arms in society and help stimulate the much needed reform we need.
"If I started my own country
For the flag, what colours would I use?
Such a myriad to choose from
I would pick red, yellow & blue
Red, for the blood I'd spill to own it
Yellow, for the sun which shines my way
& although I am leader of this country
Blue, because I'd still have sad days "
For the flag, what colours would I use?
Such a myriad to choose from
I would pick red, yellow & blue
Red, for the blood I'd spill to own it
Yellow, for the sun which shines my way
& although I am leader of this country
Blue, because I'd still have sad days "
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