Horse Warming Party Lyrics

Lyric discussion by sweatersdotcom 

Cover art for Horse Warming Party lyrics by Portugal. The Man

I think this may be about the assassination of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965. he was called the "devil of the white man" after all. "white flags" and "down south" seem to agree with that idea. but I'm just grasping at straws

@sweatersdotcom I definitely think civil rights movement is the angle here-- the giant is the movement/the people who fought for it. And they were born and raised down south, in the valley, in the city, because they were people from every corner of the country. Malcolm X is the devil who died, along with other civil rights leaders abd every day folks doing their part, but the movement goes on, hence golden people pass in silence/it won't slip away. I also don't think the riots in Florence are in Florence, Italy-- i think these are the LA riots that took...