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Steeldrivers – Sticks That Made Thunder Lyrics 8 years ago
This song is about a tree (symbolizing nature, God, Mother Nature, take your pick) watching a battle in the American Civil War.
"My roots are deeper than the bones, the others
My colors that change with the sun (leaves changing season to season)
My branches, we're higher
Than anything on the hillside"
And this points to more of the God/Mother Nature spiritual nature of the narrator:
"Those that have fallen, come when I call them
And answer the best that they can"

And the Civil War participants (the Blue and the Grey)
Some wear the color of the sky in the winter
Some, we're as blue as the night

And then of course the flags flying:
Colors flew high and they danced in the sky

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