[00:01.37]Flobots - Defend Atlantis
[00:02.43]That was as far as the tide came in
[00:16.56]I remember the starfish and the wails of the sirens then
[00:20.74]We replaced the tridents, embraced Poseidon
[00:24.13]Discovered ourselves living on an island
[00:30.43]We flow like water 'cross the lost city
[00:32.31]Chalk prophecies and washed off graffiti
[00:33.19]In continents, trade off for payoff
[00:35.19]And high concepts then lost to K-Os
[00:37.68]Many tales radiate from one nexus
[00:39.00]Defending a dream of a new directive
[00:40.31]A call from the deep sums up a notion
[00:42.18]The day when the people bum-rushed the ocean
[00:43.94]From the beaches they
[00:45.12]Ran to meet the day after
[00:47.18]Underneath, the waves
[00:48.44]Won't repeat the same chapter
[00:49.62]Knew what they had to do
[00:54.56]That which creates life
[00:59.31]Has power to take it right back
[01:01.18]Fucking with the icecaps
[01:02.87]We gotta push the tide back
[01:04.68]We can survive, collapse if we don't get sidetracked
[01:08.43]If we visualize living underwater hidden by prisms
[01:11.37]Countries fall but people transition
[01:13.24]If one for all, we live in that vision
[01:16.49]Hundred dollar bill Origami
[01:17.56]Balloon inflation, new world economy
[01:18.68]We float on tsunami to global warming
[01:20.24]We need structures to control what's coming
[01:22.31]Corporate monopolies obsolete
[01:23.12]The philosophy leaves us lost at sea
[01:26.18]But from Marwar to Cochabamba
[01:28.25]We are the warriors that won't get conquered
[01:30.06]'Cause rising tides drown all villages
[01:31.68]Divided fighters succumb to pillage
[01:33.75]Rescuers whatever your latitude
[01:35.43]It's time to pioneer a new world attitude
[01:37.43]Put local cycles first we're Global
[01:38.74]Islanders with nothing left to plunder
[01:40.37]From the beaches they
[01:52.81]Ran to meet the day after
[01:54.87]Underneath, the waves
[01:55.68]Won't repeat the same chapter
[01:58.56]Knew what they had to do
[02:03.68]For centuries
[02:06.50]Human beings have pursued the meaning of Atlantis
[02:09.49]Central to their teaching is that it's existence
[02:11.93]Answers man's essential questions
[02:13.74]Much like the feeding of the five thousand
[02:16.18]Even if the facts aren't accurate, the story's magic is alive
[02:19.05]Of utmost importance to convert the impertinent
[02:22.49]Atlantis holds the answer to man's ills at their most pertinent
[02:26.75]Aspersions easily dispersed when I certainly answer
[02:29.49]The most diverse aversions when I firstly channel
[02:33.37]Is this all that you hold for a warrior's role?
[02:37.50]The ground shakes, you claim my country, not my soul
[02:40.74]I fought, I toiled for the lost in the waves
[02:43.80]And I will not tire, I'll die no slave
[02:48.12]If the sea's my grave
[02:49.81]I sleep with my city, my people, my oath, my shame, my city
[02:55.24]Is that I cannot save my city from the waves that claim you
[02:58.99]And curse the Gods who can't explain who to blame
[03:02.68]At the end of the reign, heed me
[03:06.06]The season passes Atlas, his keep's in the sediment
[03:09.75]Failing monumentally and leaving no monuments to see
[03:13.62]Only sea to shining sea
[03:17.87]And survival hinged on the ascent by the humble
[03:28.87]And the sirens wailed as the empire crumbled
[03:39.49]With nothing to plunder, corporations drowned
[03:41.05]Waves clapped like thunder and stormed the gates with sound
[03:45.93]Forming a new nation now
[03:47.74]As the icecaps melted water levels rose
[03:53.87]We raised our hands together and made the levees hold
[03:56.93]Heels in the sand, we revealed the depths below
[03:59.75]The population of starfish exploded from the ocean
[04:03.62]Survival, we unified to focus on
[04:07.37]And the voices were many but we spoke as one
[04:12.12]As the tale was retold, we multiplied
[04:13.93]And swelled across the fault lines to halt the tide
[04:17.43]We let the altars die to keep our pulse alive
[04:22.06]And from the barren wastelands of naked trash
[04:24.99]We stitched together, a shelter from fallen nation's flags
[04:29.12]And chose to build a future from an ancient past
[04:32.86]The crowns of thorns was worn, we put the Tritons down
[04:35.93]We found new forms of anchors deep inside the ground
[04:39.43]The world is an island now