Lyric discussion by hungryfoxy 

Cover art for My August lyrics by With Broken Wings

to me this amasing song is about suicide and burning yourself to death [take my augusttake a matchtake my life watch my ashes] he is going through everything in his head [a life that is equivalant to misery a fragmented sentence never made so much sense] then talking about a flag that is representing his life and everything he lives for [burn a flag that now means nothing to me]

i may be wrong but that what it sounds like