Handlebars

[Poppn]

I'm sure most of you have heard the song "Handlebars" by Flobots on the radio at some point or another. The lyrics are actually quite meaningful with today's society. Here's the lyrics:

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 cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

And 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
I'm all curled up with a book to read
I can make money 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
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
Cuz I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
And I can split the 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 healed of their 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
Because I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
And I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
And I can end the planet 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 handlebars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars


And this is what one of the band members had to say about the song:


“The song is about the idea that we have so much incredible potential as human beings to be destructive or to be creative. And it’s tragic to me that the appetite for military innovation is endless, but when it comes to taking on a project like ending world hunger, it’s seen as outlandish. It’s not treated with the same seriousness," Flobots MC Jonny 5 (a.k.a. Jamie Laurie) said.


It really angers me that with the technology there is today that we are more absorbed with inventing the most powerful weapon to wipe out half a nation, but like said in the above quote, it seems almost "impossible" to end something like world hunger?

We can split a fucking atom and invent the atomic bomb, develop a systematic way to destroy millions of people, and have the ability to find, drill, tap and expend almost 200 million gallons of gasoline A DAY, but we can't grow something simple, like potatoes or corn, in the millions of acres of unused land and distribute them throughout the world?

What a fucking waste this society is.

/end rant

[third_shift|studios]

I love that band! They are super original. You can check out a great sampling of their albums here: http://www.purevolume.com/flobots

That said, humans are animals man. We are territorial and until the whole world unites in one thought, it will never happen. East blames West and vice-versa.

Honestly, we need an apocolypse.

[Poppn]

Is their album out? I plan on picking it up soon if so. This is the kind of music that needs to be going around, rather than stupid shit that involves sex, drugs, and death.

And I agree with the apocolypse

[Spaz]

i see what the guy is saying... and i like it... he is brilliant...

drop nueclear weapons on starving people... then we don't have to worry about them...

BRILLIANT!!!

i nominate this fellow for presidential running...

[third_shift|studios]

hehehehe

[Poppn]

Here is a link to the music video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs

[Spaz]

god damn it... i want that 3:38 of my life back...

[third_shift|studios]

oh wah! that was impressive animation none-the less

[Spaz]

oh wah! that was impressive animation none-the less

i honestly wasnt' impressed with the animation... or the vocals...


i can't sing a song
i'm monotone...
i'm monotone...
i'm monotone...

i'm not a fan of this one...

[67CamaroRSSS]

What a fucking waste this society is.

/end rant

Question 1: Why did you waste the bandwidth posting this incredibly stupid crap?

Question 2: Since you feel this society is a "fucking waste" you have only 1 option that I can see:

BTW: Did I mention that that song (like ALL rap) sucks?

[Poppn]

Question 1: Why did you waste the bandwidth posting this incredibly stupid crap?

Question 2: Since you feel this society is a "fucking waste" you have only 1 option that I can see:

BTW: Did I mention that that song (like ALL rap) sucks?

If you haven't listened to the song, you wouldn't understand. And if you did listen to the song, then you missed the point ENTIRELY! It's the message behind the lyrics that is important, and this is the most original and unique song I've heard in a LONG TIME. I'm tired of the bullshit rap/ifuck you up/i raped your girl/i plowed your mother with a 5 foot pole bullshit they play on the radio..

This song has a strong political message. And by the way, It is by no means rap.

"APPLEBOTTOM JEANS AND BOOTS WITH THE FURRRR REBOKS WITH THE STRAPPPPs FO SHIZZLEE"

[Poppn]

THird_shift, i guess people just don't see it like we do...too many close-minded people in the world

[third_shift|studios]

i have to aggree with poppn. this is a lyrical/musical master piece and the band has certainly set the bar much higher-music today is so redundant and everything is just a regurgetated mess of someone elses shit and that's become the unfortunate "ok thing to do" so Flobot's talent just gets tossed to the wayside

Flobots won't change the world-not one person can, but that's kinda the meaning of the song.

[67CamaroRSSS]

Alright, it's not rap it's hip hop (and yes I recognize the difference).

Sorry, but I don't particularly care about the words to any song.

I DO, on the other hand, care about the music, and I didn't hear much in the way of musical talent from this group. That's JMHO. Since most folks DO listen to the words, I feel we can agree to disagree on this one.

Just had to add: Protest songs are passe.

[Poppn]

i have to aggree with poppn. this is a lyrical/musical master piece and the band has certainly set the bar much higher-music today is so redundant and everything is just a regurgetated mess of someone elses shit and that's become the unfortunate "ok thing to do" so Flobot's talent just gets tossed to the wayside

Flobots won't change the world-not one person can, but that's kinda the meaning of the song.

it is most definitely a masterpiece that is for sure! Someday everyone will see. I can only hope that lyrical/musical pieces like this make their way into the minds of those totally oblivious and unaware of what was/is happening or ISN'T happening

[Poppn]

Alright, it's not rap it's hip hop (and yes I recognize the difference).

Sorry, but I don't particularly care about the words to any song.

I DO, on the other hand, care about the music, and I didn't hear much in the way of musical talent from this group. That's JMHO. Since most folks DO listen to the words, I feel we can agree to disagree on this one.

Just had to add: Protest songs are passe.

Protest songs changed alot of things 3 - 5 decades ago. There is probably not one person in this world that hasn't connected with some form of music in one way or another, weather it be religious, personal, or political. music will always be one of those forms of communication that will not just go away

[Spaz]

i have to aggree with poppn. this is a lyrical/musical master piece and the band has certainly set the bar much higher-music today is so redundant and everything is just a regurgetated mess of someone elses shit and that's become the unfortunate "ok thing to do" so Flobot's talent just gets tossed to the wayside

Flobots won't change the world-not one person can, but that's kinda the meaning of the song.

i fail to see the lyrical/musical genious of this song... mediocre at very best...

[Spaz]

it is most definitely a masterpiece that is for sure! Someday everyone will see. I can only hope that lyrical/musical pieces like this make their way into the minds of those totally oblivious and unaware of what was/is happening or ISN'T happening

why? we can't fix the world... hell no one really even knows what exactly is going on... can you tell me how many wars are going on world wide???

[hutch1999]

i dont like the song...

[Poppn]

why? we can't fix the world... hell no one really even knows what exactly is going on... can you tell me how many wars are going on world wide???

it's attitudes like that that kind of made the way things are today

like thirdshift said, i guess the only way to unite the world is through some kind of apocolypse

The point of the song, is that they list a whole crapload of things that we have "accomplished" with technology and resources, As a human race it seems we have explored the world of hatred far more than anything else