White Flag (song) "The Sopranos", "Tru Calling", "Cold Case", "Winners & Losers", and films "Perfect Stranger" and "Mommy". Carly Rae Jepsen performed a cover version of the song on "Canadian Idol". "White Flag" was written and produced by Dido, Rollo Armstrong and Rick Nowels. In the song, the protagonist is unwilling to give up, even if she knows her relationship is over. "White Flag" features "multi-layered" sound, delicate piano outro, and strings. The song is written in the key of F major (the verse starts on the minor parallel) with a tempo of 90 beats per minute, and Dido's vocals range from the
White flag across continents, e.g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia (writing in the 1550s), claims that in 1502, an Indian prince, the Zamorin of Calicut, dispatched negotiators bearing a "white cloth tied to a stick", "as a sign of peace", to his enemy Vasco da Gama. In 1625, Hugo Grotius in "De jure belli ac pacis" (On the Law of War and Peace), one of the foundational texts in international law, recognized the white flag as a "sign, to which use has given a signification"; it was "a tacit sign of demanding a parley, and shall be as obligatory, as if expressed by