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Flobots é Um Grupo De Rap Alternativo De Denver, Colorado, Formado No Interior Em Torno De 2000. Até à Data, Têm Lançado Cinco álbuns (contando O De 2001, Independentemente Lançado Com O Nome De “onomatopoeia”). (wikipédia)

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flobots01. handlebars

flobots - handlebars

Handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me
look at me
hands in the air like it's good to be
ALIVE
and I'm a famous rapper
even when the paths're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cause look

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can raise funds open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance

I can change the nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone

I can split on atom of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all grilled leavin lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command

I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope

I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
no handlebars

flobots02. white flag warriors

flobots - white flag warriors

[Jonny 5]
We request to negotiate, we come to you unarmed;
We desire to communicate, you cannot do us harm.

[Jonny 5]
They want sacrifice: they had schemes and asked me
to follow their path to the afterlife
I've got an appetite for nice things and pipe dreams
that my enemies could be pacified.

Who better force views that are better for
you, can't survive if I'm your competitor
rise together or fight separate wars
I pray I'm never forced to be a predator

[Brer Rabbit]
Forced to spectate, we won't last
Be glad to hate when gladiators breathe their last
Scream on mass when the dreams do clash
Like swords in the war, let me bleed on that

Let me feed on that, say we need strong backs,
Call us weak and then redeem contracts,
But this peace won't last; when the beast attacks
The sons and the fathers will be free at last.

[Tim McIlrath]
This is love; it's not treason.
This is love; it's not treason.
This is love; it's not treason.
This is love; it's not treason.
This is love

[Jonny 5]
They see sharks in the estuary,
They claim the ark is Bartholemew's;
They say "War is necessary,"
But we say, "War is child abuse!"

[Tim McIlrath/Jonny 5]
We'd rather make our children [We request to
negotiate]
martyrs than murderers! [We come to you unarmed]
We'd rather make our children [We desire to
communicate]
White Flag Warriors!

[Brer Rabbit--inhumanly fast here]
[?] called, they're the one's we've been waiting for,
we hold steady, steady as the stepford door[?]
[?] doesn't matter, doesn't matter if we're capable,
but get the debt to settle scores, it's just a medal
either-or

Got a plan, what's your plan got to do with me?
If the bell tolls, let freedom ring.
Find the new way if we must be kings
Instead of leading the young to our suffering.

[Jonny 5]
Past testament is downstream back in heaven,
For testing us like Wednesdays at 11,
Want to recruit and train us to act evilly,
Save it for the shooting range, Smack DVD[?]

Study war no more this millennium,
It's never again for me or anyone,
So think harder when you refer to us,
Rather make our children martyrs than murderers.

[Tim McIlrath]
This is love; this is not treason.
This is love; this is not treason.
This is love; this is not treason.
This is love; this is not treason.
This is love...

[Jonny 5]
They shell dwellings to quell the shellings,
They lift taboos to seduce the cowards;
They say we're too yellow-bellied,
But we say "we're the new superpower!"

[Tim McIlrath/Jonny 5]
We'd rather make our children [We request to
negotiate]
martyrs than murderers! [We come to you unarmed]
We'd rather make our children [We desire to
communicate]
White Flag Warriors!

[Jonny 5]
We seek craters to not be liable,
We claim to speak for a higher truth,
We stand opposed to the homicidal,
We tell you, "you are fireproof!"

[Tim McIlrath/Jonny 5]
We'd rather make our children [We request to
negotiate]
martyrs than murderers! [We come to you unarmed]
We'd rather make our children [We desire to
communicate]
White Flag Warriors!

flobots03. the circle in the square

flobots - the circle in the square

Hands in the air
Presidents, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
But that isn't fair

Hands in the air
Presidents, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
But we're the circle in the square

Up, hands in the air
Presidents, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square [4x]

The time is now, our time has come
We show them how, what can't be done
No matter what they say or they don't say
We make a way out of no way
Against the gun, beneath the veil
Yes we can, too big to fail
We are the ones we're waiting for
We save ourselves; Praise the lord

We are sly and the family
Stone in calamity
Triumph when thrown to the domes
Of these Goliaths
Planted seeds in silence
And granted meek compliance
And in the spring rain exploded in a riot
Of color and excitement
Wearing no disguises
Declaring to the stars that we trek like enterprises
Of candlelight revivals and how we lift the blindfolds
We end in Revelation, like it was the Bible

Up, hands in the air
Presidents, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square

We are the circle in the squee-are
We beathe air the same as the ones who didn't prepare
Don't be scared
Whatever time it was when you began
The clock is now 11: 55 on the big hand
So you're invited into the circle that we sleep in
Invited to depend on friendships we deepen
To uncover the secrets in the [breath] that we're bleepin
The treasures maps we pretend we do not believe in
Show us how to

Party at the protest, Rally like a rockstar
Yaya, yaya, allahu akbar
Do svidaniya Ego Foster all the people
El pueblo unido, jamas sera vencido

Party at the protest, Rally like a rockstar
Yaya, yaya, allahu akbar
Do svidaniya Ego Foster all the people
El pueblo unido, jamas sera vencido

We are the night light bearers for night terrors
We are group dreamers, vision seekers and pall bearers
In aftermath of blight errors, blood type
and marrow to the bone oaths
And beat hope into plow shares
We're balancing the balance beam
Pulling strings from battle scene tapestries
And ravenous advocates for smaller teams
Pop the bubbles of crystal schemes
We are the sleep walkers for stalled dreams

Up, hands in the air
Presidents, prime ministers
They said that we didn't care
We're the circle in the square

flobots04. no w

flobots - no w

Lets get it poppin now
Obnoxious, never stoppin now
Nobody's got a shot cuz we lock it down we're
not just a rock around the clock This'll drop you down
notches
The proper noun's FLOBOTS
When we tic toc the hip hop
get's toxic thought's drip drop lips spittin like a faucet
He goes for the shot! Jonny blocks it
Watch this as I lift off in Jonny's rockets.
So get off this topic and stop lickin off this plate
Synopsis we're takin it back
When the Flobots hit the stage it's a wrapand it goes

FLO (No W) BOTS yes
Unstoppable like a tropical disaster
Denver Colorado where the water boils faster
FLO (No W) BOTS yes
and the crowd start panickins
cuz we don't know how to act like Anakin

Give me anything I'll improve it
Use it to make good music fuse it
together with a click
From the bottom of a stick
Now we got another quick beat automatic hit
feet step to the sound that I manufacture
The slickness that I make a
plan to capture
Can I get a witness?
Till you slam and slap your wrists
Bringing down the house
Dammit that's the fifth time
that you had to get it
scanned for fractures
Hospitalization
rock the nation
Possible litigation against me
But don't tempt me
Jonny fee fi fo fum
Cuz he's liable to pummel all rivals
Leave you guys with no thumbs on the bible I swear!
Can't summarize what he's done
Twiddlers run
Chances of survival are little or none
never play second fiddle
to some dumb chump that wants nothing but to giggle and spit,
piddle and piss, get twisted and
sip crys with little misses & mr. men
sad mad strong bad double fisted when I fight foes I explode nitroglycerene

FLO (no w) BOTS yes
A little bit of this a little bit of that
We do it for the dot in the middle of the map
Guu pa
We got it covered
That's a wrap
Makin paper
Cuz we keep on rockin it
Something to count on like an abacus
we get down underground like a platypus

(0= Brer Rabbit, 5= Jonny 5)

0: Don't attempt this at home
5: The flobots'll walk away from copycats
0:We got what you kneed
5:like opposing soccer players jocky straps
0: bring your party ta life
5: we freak cheek to cheek with greatness
0: wrap lines around the world
5: We frequently seem to be equators
0:we deep beneath the vapors
5:in an underground lab
0: yup leakin secret papers
5:through tunneled out magma
0: butcha can't touch the
5:style that we bust ya
0:give other rappers the run around, tag
5:we it,
0:shot through ya'll drainers and piss pots
5:We came here to rip shop
0:when angered spit quickshots
5:like namor swims swift knots
0:Our bangers leave lips dropped
5: supreme ultra # 1 rankers of hip-hop

flobots05. we are winning

flobots - we are winning

Rival gangsters sit down to plan an after-school program
A religious fanatic posts footage of an interfaith service project
A group of teenage boys watches a video of a father playing catch with his son
An adult film star paints thumbnail portraits of elderly couples, fully clothed and smiling
A record executive records a demo of his apology
A policeman makes reverse 911 calls instructing residents to take to the streets
A patriot reports for duty
She's wearing an orange jumpsuit and holding a picket sign
She's ashamed of her birthplace
But retreat is not an option

Women and children
Frontline
Logon
Tune in
Stand and be counted
Wounded
Stationed
In the belly of the vulture
Watch your back
Theres no civilians
Women children
Frontline
Listen
Consider this a distant early warning
The fires imminent
Pollution gathering dust particles
Funneling through smokestacks
Airwaves
Bandwidth
Disinformation tube fed
Check the label
Delete the virus
Alert the masses

Butterfly wing crosswinds send black hawks toward hurricane survivors
Roses sprout from empty lots and sidewalk cracks
Pacifist guerrillas move undetected through concrete jungles
New forms are beginning to take shape
Once-occupied minds are activating
People are waking up
The insurgency is alive and well

Rise of the flobots
Portrait of the new american insurgent
Rattle and shake the foundation of the world order
Assembly line consent
Resist
Refuse
Inform
Create
Direct loved ones to the trenches
Suit up
Forge rubble into fortresses
Plaster
Cloth
Aluminum
Broken porcelain
Rusted platinum
Burn bloodstains from decompressed diamonds
Hammer the battlecry into braille-studded armor

We are building up a new world
Do not sit idly by
Do not remain neutral
Do not rely on this broadcast alone
We are only as strong as our signal
There is a war going on for your mind
If you are thinking you are winning
Resistance is victory
Defeat is impossible
Your weapons are already in hand
Reach within you and find the means by which to gain your freedom
Fight with tools
Your fate and that of everyone you know depends on it

flobots06. the rhythm method

flobots - the rhythm method

3-2-1 liftoff jetpack shoot into space
represent the dot til' were blue in the face
fre-fre-fresher than toothpaste
you know how we do in the place
the crowd accumulates when he's tuning the bass
the fiddle and guitar are removed from the case
you know its Kenny O when it booms and shakes
you know its our music by the movement it makes

the crowd that it draws
the yearning you get
to prove what it takes

move
throw your body on the dance floor
whether you're beginner or advanced or
whatever you're doing it's okay like this
so everyone do it your own way like this
move
like the dude from chappelle's show
let it rip like velcro
we spit non-typical flows like this
mile hi gh city and it goes like this
like this
like this
3,2,1,4,5,6,
no telling where the beat might hit

this is out of hand like buster bluth
leave you sounding like rusted root
bots out your mouth like a busted tooth
attention we paying who
exempt artax like atreyu dude
staying smooth venue we playing move
when you hear the rabbit saying to
let five explain it to you

turn to the next page when I say and

follow along like A to the B to the C
the 7 piece band you gotta see to believe
make ya jump around like you needed to pee
make noise if you wanted me to proceed
scream like chewbacca off ya rocka
drink a little vodka link iraq osama democracy
barack obama arabic for withdraw from vietnam
and it dont stop
dont quit
so slick

move
throw your body on the dance floor
whether you're beginner or advanced or
whatever you're doing it's okay like this
so everyone do it your own way like this
move
sweat
get your pants warm
kee kor keerr kahh
transform
wiggle and shake to this song like this
mile high city and it's on like this
1 2 3 4 5 6
who's ready for some more hype shit

this is rap's last stop like castle rock
the bots blast off like an astronaut
i suppose we came to get started
throw them bows like some angry archers
our delivery's pedigree headed for the charts soon
hit you in the heart like a harpoon
like the chambers of the wu tang clan
flobots got that method man

wanna hang with the orangutans?
mass appeal massive bananas in hand
kenny o got the master plan
to move your body like an ampersand
this rhythm section'll rattle the stands
rip sheets like we battled the clan
average bands traffic the median
we stay in the lane we're superman

move
throw your body on the dance floor
whether you're beginner or advanced or
whatever you're doing it's okay like this
so everyone do it your own way like this
move
give it to you unprotected
cause the rhythm is the method
are you ready to get loud
mile high city spell it out

f-l-o-b-o-t-s

flobots07. good soldier

flobots - good soldier

(Chorus)
Today, You don't have to be a soldier
Don't have to be a soldier, stand down
It's okay to be as you were
Be as you were again...

Is it a scheme? Is it a Vision?
Is it a dream? Is it a nightmare?
Or is it a competition?
And if it is, what if we don't fight fair?
What's bald in the morning but
In the evening has white hairs?
What's the cause of global warming and
Could it be these things right here?
I've got an idea that might not reach
Anyone for another light year
Got a hit list and a cloud
Of witnesses which is pricier
My tears are mightier than my fears...

So mighty Earth provides me hurt that
I keep buried until I convert it to writing
I was wounded
I was injured
I was made to move to Denver
I was taken through a new adventure
Paint stripped from it's first fixture
I was placed in another picture
I was rushed to a new landscape...

And ripped away from family
Scraped into a politicians mistake
And what's left of talents in chests beneath oceans
Welled up behind eyelids has yet to be salvaged
A world of emotions
A guess that it might be okay
That it could be all right if expressed today...

(Chorus)
Today, You don't have to be a soldier
Don't have to be a soldier, stand down
It's okay to be as you were
Be as you were again...

Am I a woman raised man-machine
Damaging everything
I touch by not caring enough
Or too much
Am I far flung fantasy
Setting free enmity
And making friends from enemies
And bridges for the in-between's...

For the highwayman on a low road
The tired back with a large load
The trials spanned till I found hope
And I found more
When I slo mo'ed
Enough of the back to face front
Let those in the pack of the race run
I'm needing an evener pace one too hasty
Makes mistakes
Can you carry a song
As strong as your arms can bear
That you keep from harm
And it will be there
When you go wrong
Make a heart from your bond
Your treasure is right here...

And what's left of talents
In chests beneath oceans
Welled up behind eyelids
Has yet to be salvaged
A world of emotions
A guess that it might be okay
That it could be all right
If expressed today

(Chorus)
Today, You don't have to be a soldier
Don't have to be a soldier, stand down
It's okay to be as you were
Be as you were again...(2x)

flobots08. same thing

flobots - same thing

Somewhere between prayer and revolution
between Jesus and Huey P. Newton
that's where you find Jonny 5 shoot shootin
water guns at the audience while ya scootin'
your gluteous max due to the fact that I'm tootin'
on the horn gonna warn you that I'm rootin'
for the other team in the culture wars
so I stab the beast belly while the vulture roars

YO JOE!
let it blow with convulsive force
til walls fall off their false supports
til Jericho's aircraft carriers alter course
and all brave young Americans are called ashore
cause we've already lost the war they keep wagin
splattering the streets in battles that keep ragin
bloodyin each page of the story that we're studying
each day the same just the names keep changin

Hook:

saying the same things over again
repeatin the same slogans we don't know where we've been
We've been all over the globe on our government's funds
leavin man woman and child dead bloody and numb
saying the same things over again
repeatin the same slogans we don't know where we've been
we've been overthrowing leaders with legitimate views
democratically elected but we didn't approve....

verse 2
How many times can the line divide
how many wars to uphold some pride
fears uncontrolled just swoll the tide
of blood in the streets while the people die
Ima keep on tryin
longs as suffering's multiplyin
and why not
souls get tossed and left out to rot
my backs broad enough to help left your cross
as long as you help with mine
the process of healing will take some time
to see the pain on your face is the same as mine
not a game or a race but the stake is high
we maintain our mistakes for the sake of sides
as long as it takes I"ll say it one more time
as long as it takes I'll say it one more time
as long as it takes I'll say it one more time

Hook

verse three
we need money for healthcare and public welfare
free mumia and Leonard peltier
human needs not corporate greed
drop the debt and legalize weed
we say yes to grassroots organization
no to neoliberal globalization
bring the troops back to the USA
and shut down guantanamo Bay
the same things over again
my throat's so sore from shoutin no war for the soldiers again
lookin for cloud cover when the explosions begin
lookin the crowd over wonder if you where we've been
we've been all over the globe Iran to Nicaragua
guatamala Angola grenada
Dominican republic Haiti chile
It don't stop and it won't stop unless we keep say

Hook

Who let'em overthrow Jacobo Arbenz
Who let'em overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq
Who let'em assassinate Salvador Allende
I didn't let them but they did it anyway
Who let'em overthrow Kwame Nkrumah
Who let'em overthrow Aristide
Who let'em assassinate Oscar Romero
I didn't let'em but they did indeed!

don't let them assassinate Hugo Chavez
don't let them assassinate Evo Morales
bring back Martin,, Malcolm, Medgar
, Hampton, Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney

flobots09. there s a war going on for your mind

flobots10. defend atlantis

flobots - defend atlantis

That was as far as the tide came in
I remember the starfish and the wails of the sirens then
We replaced the tridents, embraced Poseidon
And discovered ourselves living on an island...

We flow like water across the lost city
Chalk prophecies and washed off graffiti
In continents
Trade off for payoff
And high concepts then lost to K-Os
Many tales radiate from one nexus
Defending a dream of a new directive
A call from the deep sums up a notion
The day when the people bum rushed the ocean...

From the beaches they ran to meet the day after
Underneath the waves won't repeat the same chapter
Knew what they had to do...

That which creates life has power to take it right back
Fucking with the icecaps
We've gotta push the tide back
We can survive collapse if we don't get sidetracked
If we visualize living underwater hidden by prisms
Countries fall but people transition
If one for all we live in that vision
Hundred dollar bill origami
Balloon inflation new world economy
We float on tsunami to global warming
We need structures to control what's coming
Corporate monopolies obsolete
The philosophy leaves us lost at sea
But from Marwar to Cochabamba
We are the warriors that won't get conquered
'Cause rising tides drown all villages
Divided fighters succumb to pillage
Rescuers whatever your latitude
It's time to pioneer a new world attitude
Put local cycles first we're Global
Islanders with nothing left to plunder...

From the beaches they ran to meet the day after
Underneath the waves won't repeat the same chapter
Knew what they had to do...

(Alert the law alternate nations train in the streets
Act to limit all non-transparent industries so
We must defend Atlantis
Anchor the land and never transform into seas
Assets to liquify all netted toxic indices so
We must defend Atlantis...)

For centuries human beings have
Pursued the meaning of Atlantis
Central to their teaching is that
It's existence answers man's essential questions
Much like the feeding of the 5,000
Even if the facts aren't accurate
The story's magic is alive...

Of utmost importance to convert the impertinent
Atlantis holds the answer
To man's ills at their most pertinent
Aspersions easily dispersed when I certainly answer
The most diverse aversions when I firstly channel...

Is this all that you hold
For a warriors role
The ground shakes
You claim my country not my soul
I fought I toiled, for the lost
In the waves I will not tire
I die no slave
If the seas my grave
I sleep with my city
My people my oath
My shame my city is that
I cannot save my city
From waves that claim you
And curse the gods who can't explain
Who to blame
At the end of the reign
Heed me
The season passes Atlas
His keeps in the sediment
Failing monumentally
And leaving no monuments to see
Only sea to shining sea...

(Assess the loss as new tidal inundations surface
Amidst the legions are now thousands in starfish
We must defend Atlantis
As the land acquiesces no tears in sympathy
Address the legacy and never treat it separately
Access telepathy last as neverending transcendency...)

And survival hinged on an attempt by the humble
And the sirens wailed as the empire crumbled...

With nothing left to plunder corporations drowned
Waves clapped like thunder
And stormed the gates with sound
Forming a new nation now...

As the icecaps melted water levels rose
We raised our hands together and made the levees hold
Heals in the sand we revealed the depths below...

The population of starfish exploded from the ocean
Survival we unified to focus on
And the voices were many but we spoke as one...

As the tale was retold we multiplied
And swelled across the faultlines to halt the tide
We let the altars die to keep our pulse alive...

And from the barren wastelands of naked trash
We stitched together a shelter from fallen nation's flags
And chose to build a future from an ancient past...

The crowns of thorns was worn we put the tritons down
We found new forms of anchors deep inside the ground...

The world is an island now...

flobots11. by the time you get this message

flobots - by the time you get this message

By the time you get this message
I will be behind the wheel
Watching dotted yellow hexagrams stretch into the dark
Left hand surfing on iced tinged winds
Chewing up a cardboard box...

Singing at lung top
One stop left 'til I meet you in the concourse
St. Louie encore
Do we have a shot?
Caught
No dwelling on the thought
Of what the hell we haven't got
So I'm headed from the dot to the spot
Where your plane touches down
For a six hour layover
Don't say a word
I found it on the map
Calculated it
Just a half a day to get from where
You're not to where you will be
My hair is filthy
I'm drinking coffee
I can barely feel the trace
From the only time you kissed me on the face
Question mark space
I know you're with me underneath the starscape
Treadmill pick up our pace
Headstart on a jet in a car chase
Is this the part where my heart breaks
One asleep one awake
Back to back 'cause you wouldn't turn towards me
Had me battling fractals keeping track of
All the chords we created
Sound clash of swords
Back and forth
Couldn't poke through the sash
Slash through the plasterboard
You packing your passport
Me on a crash course to show you that
I have the passion that you asked for
Flooring the gas trying a fast forward fifteen months
I'll see you once the sun shines through
The glass above the dashboard...

The stars I see aren't even there
It's only light in the air...

By the time you get this message
I'll be either on my second flight
Or already all the way to my destination
Ridiculous that I could honestly expect
You waiting at the gate when I arrive
A sixteen hour drive
I've been feeling so silly going on now several months
As our obsession runs together
And whoever comes to have you I'll be jealous of
And when above all else you put her I'll
Know what it was to feel so needed
Sorta wish that I was more of a romantic
And could give you back the utmost
But I've never seen it up close
From everything that I can tell
There are several possibilities
Maybe we're in love really
Maybe it's too early to really see
Maybe we're just searching for something
To hold onto amidst confusion and fragility
Maybe we've lost all sensibility
Will it be come our Splendor in the Grass
When the facts have asserted themselves
And the memories pass into poetry and words that retell
What only then can we be sure that we felt
Guess I prefer to be unhappy
Or weren't you looking at me when my back became a wall
Searched for your reflection saw exactly what you saw
Two kinds of different skin
Two minds exist within
Trying to just transcend all space and time
And lift their chin and find some sense of purpose
Some sense of hope
Press my cheek against the window surface
We've been afloat
But now I'm nervous
Has this been a joke?
We're landing and it's time to close the envelope
Maybe I'll see you at the finish line...

flobots12. happy together

flobots - happy together

Imagine me and you
I do but I'm thinking too much and I'm studying how they
toss the dice
it had to be simpler back in the day when our folks were
pretty certain they would find someone
now none of it's assigned
we just want a date
whether deaf or blind or dumb
I look at your number and wonder if I should
call you up
or invest a dime in a message with text that doesn't
belong to me but it would
ease my mind to know if the songs I'm singin are
in a key
you can comprehend
in tune with the thoughts you're pondering
if so we can both stop wondering if and
be together like Donner and Blitzen
but all reindeer games aside
it's like right when you came here, I came alive
it's like everything else was a glipse of you
giving hints and clues of where your name resides
now that I've found you it's changed the vibe
shattered through all the blame fear pain and pride
doesn't matter who calls and inversts a dime
they get a message saying we're staying inside
cause I imagine, you and me could make music easily
could make moves never lose the beat
I can imagine the food that we chose to eat
I see it all like a view from a movie seat
and imagine you and me
never knew that we
were never more than a few degrees
and how good it would prove to be
but the waiting is over I finally found you and...

Hooks

Imagine me and you
and you and you me
no other way for we to be
toss the dice eventually
snake-eyes spells a tragedy
and I release unhappily
the magic now a fantasy
the another one for me than you
a some other one for you than me
and that's the way it has to be
an uncompleted masterpiece
deleted canvas atrophy
cut be another after me
a silent wound whose lips confess
Love's loss under Love's duress
a curse confessing hope
and then reverse the blessing emptiness
this hollow whole wont coalesce
regrets emote from hole in chest
as less remote emotions pull from
gravities growing depths
I have it easy knowing this
together we will never fit
So I'd rather bind my mind with rhymes
than blind my eyes and sever it

hooks

And I don't know and I can't think
and I'm so smote that I can't see
and I look at the picture I have in my head and
I won't doze and I can't sleep
and it's so good that I'm locked down
and your quotes get put in my thoughts now
and there's nobody else to distract me
cause you've got me on lockdown
and it can't stop and it won't stop
and we rock on leavin shows stopped
so thank you for comin goodnight everyone we're the flobots...

flobots13. cracks in the surface

flobots - cracks in the surface

The water level's rising
The water level's rising
Everyone alive sing
Who will turn the tide
Bring about land grabs
Sand bags bring 'em out
It's hard to yell with
The Atlantic in your mouth...

Cracks in the surface
Cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick...

Cracks in the surface
Cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick...

One becomes two becomes three becomes four
Our soundwaves run your city like parkour
Provokin' encores but we know you want more
That's what we're doing this for...

Four becomes three becomes two becomes one
The metamorphosis cannot be undone
We burst forth from the land toward the sun
And transform the advance has begun...

Like Mary J, I'm o-Bliged to hollerate and prophesy
Nostradamus on the topics often dropped on open mics
When both sides are vocalized the crowd spits the dopest lines
Efforts gain significance like overdrives of dopamine...

These narcissists forget to do their exercise
Confused by what success implies
Name drop successive tries
I drive thrus to get extra fries
Emancipating free speech when I run my mouth
Terminal cancer patients say,
"Hey when's the C.D. coming out?"

Cracks in the surface
Cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick...

Cracks in the surface
Cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick...

Rhyming enigma I keep 'em guessing
My rhymes are like ribbons when I wrap the present
Recapture lessons, the ancestors prefaced
In deference to how we break it down to the essence...

'Cause there're cracks in the surface,
Nobody wants to see 'em
Strategic war games don't call 'em human beings
They call 'em like they want
'E for a prop in their battle rap
But Solomon and Math will dap
After play the track backwards...

Because there's too much death energy
Let it be a muse sing to your best enemy
Never let it be your task master,
Let's finish things alive with
Oppression and disaster diminishing...

One becomes two becomes three becomes four
Our sound waves run your city like parkour
Provokin' encores but we know you want more
That's what we're doing this for...

Four becomes three becomes two becomes one
The metamorphosis cannot be undone
We burst forth from the land toward the sun
And transform, the advance has begun...

Cracks in the surface
Cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick...

Cracks in the surface
Cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick...

Break, them, down
Break, them, down
Break, them, down...

Break, them, down
Break, them, down
Break, them, down...

flobots14. fight with tools

flobots - fight with tools

Echo echo one-nine
Hear the call through fault lines
Smoke signals old rhymes
Shorted lights in store signs
Spelled in a broken code
Find that it is time to
Breath build bend and refine you
We sky tenants
Give it all but wont give up
Radio soul antennas
Radio to lift spirits
Call sign commando
M.o. is independence
Scream till the walls fall,
Dissolve all the limits

Occupied minds
Unemployed skills
Desolation
Worn out
Torn down
Just for now thrill seekers
Slanging
Test tube babies in beakers
Where gun blasts pump straight from the speakers
The system where the
Poor get poorly paid
To hold the ladder
Where the rich get ricocheted
Into the stratosphere
And in between people are rushin' like vladimir
With metals to make their status clear
Get us out of here

We need heroes
Build them
Don't put your fist up
Fill them
With our hopes and our hearts and our hands
We're the architects of our last stand

There's a war going on for your mind
Those who seek to occupy it will stop at nothing
The battlefield is everywhere
There is no sanctuary
There are no civilians
You have two choices
Surrender or enlist

What kind of person are you
Always the first to argue
Or never down to stick your neck out
Cause it hurts you far too much
To see your rep suffer
Set you up a buffer
Well neither is enough for us cut from a tougher brand of duct tape
The propaganda's stuck on us like sock pajamas
Spread like a virus
Through accepted thoughts and proper manners
But off the cameras
Something's simmering across the land
About to bubble up
And knock the lids off of the pots and pans

We are non stop juggernauts
Stomp ziggurats
Spit manifestos
By terabytes and gigawatts
Shock paradigms
Give sense to a score
Throw thoughts through the sky
Activate twenty more
In these high and dry times
Expectorate on dogma
Pragmatic sycophants
Divide and conquer
We build bridges offer
Hard work and prosper
As hand made heroes brought to you by no sponsors

All free minds to the front
All free minds to the front
We call upon women
We call upon children
We call upon the handicapped
The infirmed
The week of heart
We need your courage
Your dedication
Your passion
Your commitment
Gather up your platinum
Melt it down
Gather up your gold
Melt it down
Gather up your bronze
Your silver
Your aluminum
Melt it down
Melt it down
Melt it down

flobots15. jetpack

flobots - jetpack

Chorus:
I will not bend
I will not bow
I will not break
I'll stand my ground
won't be afraid
to sing out loud
to sing out loud
to sing out loud
the visions of what's involved
the tensions you must resolve
distractions will just dissolve
YOU ARE NOT LIKE ME

he's encountered a setback,
he isn't down to let that
keep him on the ground. Press that
button- ignite the jetpack!
launch pad shrink disappear
past the brink the
atmosphere's thinning and his
plasma's tingly
planes appear to be birds and
birds appear to be bees and
he's hearing the words that
occur to him for no reason
"What are you living your life for
what are you willing to die for
what do you believe to be the grain of truth you can provide for
this grand adventure?
Is it your plan to spend your
days batted about by
these random events?
Are you fueled by another engine
lighting a fire beneath?
Have you breathed and seen your breath in the winds
and have you reached that point?"

CHORUS

you only get to see this
earth one time it's
axis tilt's it
changes climates
plates shift weights and
continents drift and
draft twisted fates and
monstrous frictions
fragmentations stress and
aggravation
depression and confusion and
bad relations use your
imagination elude their
categorization
whether the crowd gives boos or
congratulations the blue's just
something you move through toward the
vast expanses of space on the
universal infinite
path to emancipation the
gravity of the planet
grips you but don't abandon
ship you feel the pressures in
side can you withstand it?

CHORUS

the heights you'll reach the
depths you'll delve to
depends on the propulsion
system that propels you
methods that compel you
messages they sell you
punishments they give you
for doing what they tell you
but we've got passion
they've got prisons
you've got the freedom to
make a decision
will you abandon
all your addictions
take your stand and
live your convictions
what've you got to lose what've
you been taught to chose
what're you so hot to prove with your
beautiful socks and shoes
the costumes' frayed cloth covers
skin like a shroud
exhaust fumes fade off in the wind
like a cloud

CHORUS

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