Cracks In The Surface-Flobots

[ti:Cracks In The Surface] [ar:Flobots] [al:Survival Story] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cracks In The Surface (Album Version) - Flobots [00:03.13]The water level's rising the water level's rising [00:06.26]Everyone alive sing: Who will turn the tide [00:09.32]Bring about land grabs sand bags bring 'em out [00:12.13]It's hard to yell with the Atlantic in your mouth [00:14.89]Cracks in the surface cracks in the surface tick tick tick tick [00:19.76]Cracks in the surface cracks in the surface tick tick tick tick [00:26.07]One becomes two becomes three becomes four [00:29.88]Our sound waves run your city like parkour [00:32.07]Provokin' encores but we know you want more [00:34.82]That's what we're doing this for [00:37.89]Four becomes three becomes two becomes one [00:41.07]The metamorphosis cannot be undone [00:43.07]We burst forth from the land toward the sun [00:46.39]And transform the advance has begun [00:48.63]Like Mary J I'm obliged to hollerate and prophesy [00:51.82]Nostradamus on the topics often dropped on open mics [00:54.82]When both sides are vocalized the crowd spits the dopest lines [00:58.26]Efforts gain significance like overdrives of dopamine [01:00.32]These narcissists forget to do their exercise [01:02.19]Confused by what success implies [01:03.50]Name drop successive tries in drive thrus to get extra fries [01:06.20]Emancipating free speech when I run my mouth terminal [01:08.38]Cancer patients say 'Hey when's the C D coming out ' [01:11.88]Cracks in the surface cracks in the surface tick tick tick tick [01:16.44]Cracks in the surface cracks in the surface tick tick tick tick [01:22.51]Rhyming enigma I keep 'em guessing [01:25.88]My rhymes are like ribbons when I wrap the present [01:28.76]Recapture lessons the ancestors prefaced [01:30.76]In deference to how we break it down to the essence [01:34.57]'Cause there're cracks in the surface nobody wants to see 'em [01:37.88]Strategic war games don't call 'em human beings [01:40.07]They call 'em like they want 'em for a prop in their battle rap [01:43.51]But Solomon and Math will dap after play the track backwards [01:46.07]Because there's too much death energy [01:48.13]Let it be a muse sing to your best enemy [01:51.20]Never let it be your task master [01:52.82]Let's finish things alive with oppression and disaster diminishing [01:55.26]One becomes two becomes three becomes four [02:00.14]Our sound waves run your city like parkour [02:02.88]Provokin' encores but we know you want more [02:05.76]That's what we're doing this for [02:08.63]Four becomes three becomes two becomes one [02:11.38]The metamorphosis cannot be undone [02:13.45]We burst forth from the land toward the sun [02:17.13]And transform the advance has begun [02:19.14]Cracks in the surface cracks in the surface tick tick tick tick [02:24.76]Cracks in the surface cracks in the surface tick tick tick tick [02:29.38]Break them down Break them down Break them down [02:34.69]Break them down Break them down Break them down