White Flag

Album: Church of Scars (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • Bishop Briggs told Consequence of Sound in a track-by-track interview: "This is a song that's about never giving up and continuing despite any obstacles that may stand in your way. That being said, the music video was one take and was definitely an obstacle in itself!"
  • The all-white flag has been used as a signal for laying down of arms since the Roman Empire, The historian Cornelius Tacitus mentions a white flag of surrender in AD 109. It is now an universally recognized protective sign of truce or ceasefire, as well as a symbol of surrender. Its bearer is by international custom immune from harm.

    The white flag is often used by songwriters as a symbol for giving up. Artists that recorded songs titled after the internationally recognized sign of surrender include: Dido, Gorillaz, Flobots, Ashlyne Huff and Dave Barnes.

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