Flobots Album

[No lyrics]

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?"

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

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?

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

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

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

I just wanna say
welcome to the part of the show
where the base drum hits hard and slow
your face becomes aware that Im starting to flow
and it sounds like a song that you already know
you might have heard it at 11th and Fillmore
A sort biggish building with a littlish a billboard but
Whats everybody staying still 4,
3,2,1 If youre happy, Gillmore
then act like youre knowing it clap
And move like youre in a kayak and youre rowing it
And if you dont wanna clap then snap
Whatever floats your boat just go with it
Cause Im hoping thisll get you open
Its a bit of spoken word a little joking heard hear and there
Lemme clear the air
This is not a competitionLord, hear my prayer
So if anybody listening is feeling scared
We wanna make your spirit aware that
You are not alone
You are not alone

Chorus:
You are (you are) not alone
You dont have to do this on your own
One Love Agape One Love Agape
Solo(w) it can feel like were coming apart
Together were much more than the sum of our parts
One Love Agape One love Agape


Some of out parts are just about busting
Some of our parts are rusty but these
Lips voice sentiments begun in our hearts and
Heal wounds with the songs that are sung in the dark
So if youre feeling like a Pimp take a moment just to hold it off
My role model will not only brush ya shoulders off
But wash your feet, give his life as the soldiers watch
And forgive his torturers below the cross
So when youre slapped and youre told to fight back
And they taunt you over the phone to incite smack
Get back! Get back in the zone despite that
And rely on the strength that the bonified have
But if you act like you know me like that
Call me cheesy like macaroni I might snap snap
But only like that and get on the microphone and recite raps

CHORUS
You are not alone
You dont have to do this on your own
You wont have to prove yourself to get through this
Dont have to lose yourself to this music
In fact you might find yourself
In a room full of strangers trying to help
In a flashback to the last time you felt
The presence of something divine well, this is
Hip-hop its not just for profit anymore never was
Its too easy to live your life waiting for change to arrive if it ever does
It will come from a source thats infinite, not from a middle man
You cant measure its force but youve got a sense of it, and its bigger than
Hip-hopits larger than life/death.much greater than us/them..
Everybody One love/agape
CHORUS

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

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 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
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 lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms 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
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
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

I've been
Traveling the land from gravel into sand
Not knowin' where Im goin', never havin' any plans
Anything I wanted had to grab it in advance
Abracadabra, there's a rabbit in my hands, 'cause
I've got the magic stick bust the baddest tricks
Fished for a whale brought a ship up out of it
What's that I just saw? A platypus? Naw
Maybe its a rat crawling flat on his paws
Or a baby dragon just draggin' his claws
It doesn't really matter
Because its Saturday
So look that away
3:00 clock matinée
Let's collaborate
And I'll pay ya back soon
With a crazy rap tune
But for now were just gazin' at the moon

Wander and ponder the pale blue yonder
To infinity and beyond the city
Beyond the city, we all want to see serenity
But some times you've gotta hop the fence to see
That all sidewalks must end eventually
I sit still at the bottom of the sea
Brainwaves chill like a sea anemone
Sentient entity
Let the spirit enter me
Patient, pervasive, how I was meant to be
A stone worn smooth by the swift currents of chaos
A place to lay a thick array of lush moss
I'm parlaying on my day off
Floatin' way off on my thought balloons and snackin' on macaroons
But for now I'm just gazin' at the moon

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 up 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 wrap
and 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 panickin
cuz they don't know how to act like Anikin

Man you can give me anything
and 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 to none
We never play second fiddle...
to some dumb chump that wants nothing but to piddle and piss,
giggle and spit, 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 need
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: givin 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

Something grown together
An agreement
Whether or no the weather is hot or freezing
Until the day of bereavement
Something known forever

A convergence
Of lifelines and lifetimes full of wonderings
And longings and searchings
Commitment and devotion
An adventure
A kiss to span the oceans
When in sickness
When healthy, tired, or injured

Energy and passion
An investment
Entering on to a path intertwined
Laughing, crying, and learning lifelong lessons

Something grown together
Something grown together
Something grown together
Like branches of a banyan tree
Deeply rooted in family
Giving life to a canopy
Much more than a crush
More than a brush with where happenstance is standing
Compatible hearts like Raggedy Ann and Andy
Bump, bump
Bump, bump
But the beat changes up when he sees her
Takkity, takkity, taka-taka-taka-taka
Takity, takity
Can't believe the rhythm is so in sync
And that isn't their only strength
They were hummin' a tune
The sun and the moon
They didn't know what to think
But they were pleased to see these two young souls become mates
To provide light for a song that was sung right in one take
Because there's no need to rehearse when you and your partner get in the zone
And you can't memorize words you've always known

Something grown together
An agreement
Whether or no the weather is hot or freezing
Until the day of bereavement
Something known forever

A convergence
Of lifelines and lifetimes full of wonderings
And longings and searchings
Commitment and devotion
An adventure
A kiss to span the oceans
When in sickness
When healthy, tired, or injured

Energy and passion
An investment
Entering on to a path intertwined
Laughing, crying, and learning lifelong lessons