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The Same Flag

by Kevin Andrew Prchal

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America is more than one experience. Whoever you are and whatever you believe, I hope this song gives you something to reflect on. Peace and love, everybody.

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The soldier unwell in her body and mind,
Dreaming of the home she once dreamt to leave behind.
With a ring on her finger and a scar on her womb,
She thinks, “Nobody wants freedom if nobody wants truth.”

So she looks to her heart like her momma taught her,
And fights for us all while we fight each other.
Her world isn’t colored by red or by blue,
But she waves the same flag as you.
_____
The black mother crying on the painted concrete,
Reaching up to heaven like it’s fruit on a tree.
Spent twenty years working and raising him good,
But good don’t mean nothing when you’re wearing a hood.

He wasn’t protected, nor was he served,
He died with his hands high above him.
Remember this story next time you salute,
For he waved the same flag as you.
_____
And the Sheriff now staring down the gathering storm,
He’s an honest man in and out of his uniform.
He gave a lifetime of service for less in exchange,
Now he goes to the diner and the staff looks away.

They say time is a healer, but time it don’t turn,
If it did then he’d call away that officer.
So forward he’ll go with you, if forward you choose,
For he waves the same flag as you.
_____
Somebody’s daughter out chasing her dreams,
She’s sharp as a pine needle and tough as Ali.
Still it’s plain as the day if you look then you’ll see,
She’s given a lock while he’s given a key.

But she’ll get where she’s going by strength or by grace,
With an army now walking beside her.
When you feel the ground moving, better let ‘em pass through,
For they wave the same flag as you.
_____
The little boy living in fear of himself,
When he sees his reflection, he sees someone else.
He don’t know what it means yet, but one day he will,
And the depth of your beating heart will then be revealed.

‘Cause the love that you give her is the love that she’ll give,
As with anyone that is the answer.
If you were born in God’s image,
She was born in it, too,
And she’ll defend same flag as you.
____
Kentucky man drinking and kicking up dust,
On the farm his grandfather built from the ground up.
No time for your pity, no time for your cause,
He thinks, “But as long as you’re marching, try marching for us.”

There’s a world all around us that we never see,
And it runs like a river through our history.
So you can paint your horizon while he tightens his boots,
For he waves the same flag as you.
____
The Atlantic, empathic and reaching her hands,
To the shores of her body where the runaways ran.
She don’t need no direction, no hints from the wind,
To know where they’re headed, to know where they’ve been.

Now they sing without worry, they cry without care,
They breathe in the best of that free ocean air.
And when they fall at the feet of that mighty statue,
They’ll wave the same flag as you.
_____
I am a stranger but I am your friend,
And I don’t know anything but I can pretend.
So you be the gunman and I’ll be the kid,
You can shoot me down then tell me ‘bout your rights again.

Or we can go to the movies, it’s safer that way,
‘Cause I ain’t no Corleone and you ain’t John Wayne.
But brother, I hear you, your passion is proof,
That I wave the same flag as you.
I wave the same flag as you.
I wave the same flag as you.
_____

Written by Kevin Andrew Prchal
© 2019 KVNPRCHL (ASCAP)

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released November 6, 2020

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Kevin Andrew Prchal is a singer/songwriter from Chicago, Illinois.

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