Songfacts®:

• This call-to-unarm is the first single from the Denver rock and hip-hop musical group Flobots second album, Survival Story. The song features guest vocals from Tim McIlrath of the Chicago band Rise Against.
• Flobots frontman Jonny 5 discussed this song with Denver Westworld: "In 'White Flag Warrior,' we talk about innovations that need to be made in peace making. We need to sort of put our money where our mouths are, both individually and as a society. We have to invest in the skills of peacemaking, and treat it as a legitimate skill."
• Survival Story's artwork features a big wave and a guy standing beneath it. Jonny 5 explained it to Denver Westworld: "That tsunami and that kind of desolated scene - of course, all drawn by Jonathan Till - is a way of saying, 'We're going to send a white flag into that story.' And if you notice it kind of looks like he might get overtaken, but he's confident and courageous and he's not backing down. So it's kind of this metaphor versus metaphor thing there. We send this white flag warrior in to engage the situation, and you can't tell what happens, but it says Survival Story, so the presumption is that guy must survive. So he faces this negative infatuation and survives."