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A banner year
1864,
Don't want the red man anymore,
Can't have them taking up good land.
Give them a token flag,
Trade pipes and shake some hands,
Tell them the white stripes stand for peace.
Say if they raise red white and blue,
Blue coats will never shoot at you,
But stripes will loose their sheen,
Black Kettle was their chief,
He only wanted peace,
Under the flag...
A massacre at Sand Creek.

Wave your flag.
Salivate.
Stirring feelings of pride and hate.
A peace of cloth
can't hold your faith.

No flag flies,
No banner waves,
See the empty pole above his empty grave.
No one knows
Where he lies,
And no one knows just why he had to die.

A banner year
1868,
A bitter end a twist of fate.
Maps won't hold this melanoma,
Blurry part of Oklahoma,
Where Custer shot and killed Black Kettle.

Wave your flag.
Salivate.
Stirring feelings of pride and hate.
A peace of cloth can't hold your faith.

No flag flies,
No banner waves,
See the empty pole above his empty grave.
No one knows
Where he lies,
And no one knows just why he had to die.

A promise is a promise,
A judge of character.
His banner over me is love.

No flag flies,
No banner waves,
See the empty pole above his empty grave.
No one knows
Where he lies,
And no one knows just why he had to die.

No flag flies,
No banner waves,
See the empty pole above his empty grave.
No one knows
Where he lies,
And no one knows just why he had to die.
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Cover art for Banner Year lyrics by Five Iron Frenzy

a song about a historical event, but also about the mis-treating of native Americans, during our civil war we tried to get them on our side by saying we wanted peace, but not all of the english immigrants wanted peace, some just wanted to have the land for their own and didn't want any indians around to get in the way and killed them or moved them shamelessly.

Cover art for Banner Year lyrics by Five Iron Frenzy

My favorite song off this album. i agree w/ what J35U5 wrote. Tells of our nations mistreatment of the Native Americans.

Cover art for Banner Year lyrics by Five Iron Frenzy

This one of my favorite FIF songs ever. As said before, it's about the Sand Creek Massacre.

Cover art for Banner Year lyrics by Five Iron Frenzy

This song was inspired by Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee." This book is quoted in another FIF song: "The Day We Killed."

Cover art for Banner Year lyrics by Five Iron Frenzy

And this is why I'm English, not American.

The first Americans (that did all this crap) where English, man.

@socialengineer

However, were the English justified in their imperialistic pursuits? Maybe you should re-read "The White Man's Burden" or "Kim" or "The Man Who Would Be King" again...

@socialengineer You might want to do just the tiniest amount of reading about your own country. There's a phrase involving glass houses and rocks that's very appropriate here. If you wanted to rank modern countries by historical atrocities committed, as hard as we've been fighting our way up the leaderboards, we still have come close to England.