Whip$ and Chain$-Flobots

[ti:Whip$ and Chain$] [ar:Flobots] [al:Survival Story] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Whip$ and Chain$ (Album Version) - Flobots [00:09.76]Strange fruit I roll up in my ford taurus [00:11.83]Emissions I won't pass like Gandalf at Moria [00:14.01]Way out of order [00:15.07]Sedan with four doors [00:16.07]Pull out garage and lost side view mirror [00:18.39]My credit card final fantasy breaks the limit [00:20.51]I just paid just brakes to break my lemon [00:22.57]Won't 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 [00:28.26]Convertible roofs [00:29.26]Thinking spanish [00:30.01]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 [00:42.82]'Cause it's not who you are but who you're wearing [00:45.20]Stay sportin lashes from the old massa's [00:47.76]And what's 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 [00:56.70]Don't know who the boss is do I hold the power [00:58.51]Or am I powered like horses [00:59.82]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 [01:08.26]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 [01:21.45]If there's no lock who needs a key [01:26.20]When did we stop being free [01:28.51]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 [01:39.01]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 [01:48.32]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 [01:57.82]Simon Williams I Wonder Man [02:00.01]Just how did our oil get under their sand [02:02.45]And how did our homes get onto their land [02:04.82]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 [02:12.63]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 sh*t and name off a list of gains [02:21.38]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 [02:25.32]Who killed o [02:26.32]Why and what's the reason for [02:29.64]Who starts homicidal wars [02:31.51]Rich man poor man either or [02:34.07]Who shows us what we knead [02:36.32]Who's got the bread for the luxuries [02:38.64]Who told us it's ingrained [02:40.38]We who hold these whips and chains [02:43.51]Who holds these [02:44.57]Who holds these [02:45.57]Who holds these traps and circuses [02:47.88]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 [02:54.57]Let's take it back before cassettes [02:56.57]Pepsi cans and packs of percocet [02:58.82]1910 all the factory workers said [03:01.32]Yes we can demand a weekend [03:03.32]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 [03:09.82]We can't be content to steep in the anaesthesia [03:12.38]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 [03:37.57]Who killed o [03:39.76]Why and what's the reason for [03:42.13]Who starts homicidal wars [03:43.76]Rich man poor man either or [03:46.38]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 [03:53.07]We who hold these whips and chains