How Do You Like The Colors

Another guy-and-guitar piece that got a full-band arrangement for Onward To Yesterday. This song was inspired by a pickup truck I saw at Wal*Mart. It had a bumper sticker on it that said THESE COLORS DON'T RUN, and the American flag on the sticker had almost completely faded off. There was also a yellow SUPPORT THE TROOPS ribbon that had gone gray, but that might just have been from road salt. Anyway, the title came up at Song Fight (http://www.songfight.org/), and the song practically wrote itself.


How Do You Like The Colors

How do you like the colors
On the magnet on your car
Do you remember when you bought it
Did you think it'd go this far
When you went and got your ribbon
Did you ever think they'd fade
Did your anger dull down with 'em
And the promise that you made?

'Cause you used to say
This time we won't run away
Not this time
This time we're here to stay

How do you like the colors
They get fainter every day
Will you go and buy another
When the yellow turns to gray
Was it proudly made in China
Or in the USA
And does it even really matter
If you can't read it anyway?

But it used to say
This time we won't run away
Not this time
This time we're here to stay

How do you like the colors
On the magnet on your car
Do you remember when you bought it
Did you think it'd go this far
And when you tire of the mission
Like the magnet on your car
Is it a modern-day condition
Or just part of who we are?


This song (and all the others on Onward To Yesterday) can be heard on the music player to the right.