[00:00.93]Flobots - Whip$ and Chain$
[00:09.77]Strange fruit I roll up in my ford taurus
[00:11.83]Emissions I wont pass like Gandalf at Moria
[00:14.02]Way out of order
[00:15.08]Sedan with four doors
[00:16.08]Pull out garage and lost side view mirror
[00:18.39]My credit card final fantasy breaks the limit
[00:20.52]I just paid just brakes to break my lemon
[00:22.58]Wont make enough juice for my pessimism
[00:24.64]So I'm not for given 'till my debts forgiven
[00:26.95]Skim off the top
[00:28.27]Convertible roofs
[00:29.27]Thinking spanish
[00:30.02]Green sounds like the truth
[00:31.64]Got it on lock jaw to the tip o' the tooth
[00:34.39]Way I floss no dental insurance to boot
[00:36.14]But my chain hangs low' I could double dutch
[00:38.39]Keep my eyes to the floor so don't stumble much
[00:40.70]I shine at night from all the carrots
[00:42.83]'Cause it's not who you are but who you're wearing
[00:45.20]Stay sportin lashes from the old massa's
[00:47.77]And whats under the chassis
[00:49.45]Clasps on the neck says
[00:52.39]'Property of the masses'
[00:54.70]The block is gentrified while the governor's classic
[00:56.71]Don't know who the boss is do I hold the power
[00:58.52]Or am I powered like horses
[00:59.83]Whip is blowin' out my back like I'm exhaust-ed
[01:01.95]Pipes blowin' more fire than pentecost
[01:03.89]Who killed o?
[01:05.64]Why and what's the reason for?
[01:08.27]Who starts homicidal wars?
[01:09.70]Rich man poor man either or?
[01:12.64]Who shows us what we knead?
[01:14.76]Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
[01:17.01]Who told us it's ingrained?
[01:19.14]We who hold these whips and chains
[01:21.46]If there's no lock who needs a key?
[01:26.20]When did we stop being free?
[01:28.52]I see things vis a vis a sea change
[01:33.20]Full fathom five people became remains deep beneath chains
[01:35.51]We pay into easing these pains
[01:37.64]'Cause the history is difficult
[01:39.02]Wish the results could be flipped like reciprocals
[01:44.39]Allow me to renumerate aloud the typical rude awakenings
[01:46.89]of the drowsy consumer base
[01:48.33]Bass boom will make the crowd sing and syncopate with
[01:51.26]the views that they're espousing
[01:53.45]Synchronize to the stupid take a thousand
[01:55.64]Sinning like every excuse they make is valid
[01:57.83]Simon Williams I Wonder Man
[02:00.02]Just how did our oil get under their sand?
[02:02.45]And how did our homes get onto their land?
[02:04.83]And how did our foes get guns in their hands?
[02:07.20]Conflict diamonds
[02:07.70]Child labor tennis shoes
[02:09.20]Genocide energy
[02:10.20]Gentrified gin and juice
[02:11.70]Slave trade banks
[02:12.64]Rape-based internet movies
[02:13.95]What's a simple straight-laced human to do
[02:16.20]With a strange fate twist and fame
[02:18.45]Except talk shit and name off a list of gains
[02:21.39]But do you realize I'd find my lips in flames
[02:23.76]If I tried to take pride in these whips and chains
[02:25.33]Who killed o?
[02:26.33]Why and what's the reason for?
[02:29.64]Who starts homicidal wars?
[02:31.51]Rich man poor man either or?
[02:34.08]Who shows us what we knead?
[02:36.33]Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
[02:38.64]Who told us it's ingrained?
[02:40.39]We who hold these whips and chains
[02:43.51]Who holds these
[02:44.57]Who holds these
[02:45.58]Who holds these traps and circuses
[02:47.89]We want it
[02:48.82]They own it
[02:49.95]So we're going half-berserk for it
[02:51.95]Let's take it
[02:53.45]Let's take it
[02:54.58]Let's take it back before cassettes
[02:56.58]Pepsi cans and packs of percocet
[02:58.82]1910 all the factory workers said
[03:01.33]Yes we can demand a weekend
[03:03.33]If we can get the man to weaken
[03:05.70]So if you're ready than send a beacon
[03:07.89]To be continued and to begin
[03:09.83]We can't be content to steep in the anaesthesia
[03:12.39]Invisible hands of phantoms depend on
[03:14.45]Ya fantasies have been poisoned
[03:15.95]But we've got the panacea!
[03:18.70]Who killed o?
[03:20.95]Why and what's the reason for?
[03:23.95]Who starts homicidal wars?
[03:26.01]Rich man poor man either or?
[03:28.82]Who shows us what we knead?
[03:30.70]Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
[03:33.01]Who told us it's ingrained?
[03:34.51]We who hold these whips and chains
[03:37.58]Who killed o?
[03:39.76]Why and what's the reason for?
[03:42.14]Who starts homicidal wars?
[03:43.76]Rich man poor man either or?
[03:46.39]Who shows us what we knead?
[03:48.76]Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
[03:51.26]Who told us it's ingrained?
[03:53.08]We who hold these whips and chains