I interpret the lyrics as meaning that change(the winds of change that rearrange the county)is simply inevitable,and that since change cannot be avoided,that in the face of change,the change should "also sow a seed of memory",because although the past is gone,we should at least learn from it and try not to keep repeating it.I don't see it as either patriotic or anti-war,but a symbolic way of saying we humans have a tendency to repeat the bloody past,yet we keep changing,so in the face of inevitable change(which happens naturally),we should let the "winds of change" also "sow a seed of memory" that we can learn from.
I interpret the lyrics as meaning that change(the winds of change that rearrange the county)is simply inevitable,and that since change cannot be avoided,that in the face of change,the change should "also sow a seed of memory",because although the past is gone,we should at least learn from it and try not to keep repeating it.I don't see it as either patriotic or anti-war,but a symbolic way of saying we humans have a tendency to repeat the bloody past,yet we keep changing,so in the face of inevitable change(which happens naturally),we should let the "winds of change" also "sow a seed of memory" that we can learn from.