[00:00:00] Whip$ and Chain$ - Flobots [00:00:09] Strange fruit I roll up in my ford taurus [00:00:11] Emissions I won't pass like Gandalf at Moria [00:00:14] Way out of order [00:00:15] Sedan with four doors [00:00:16] Pull out garage and lost side view mirror [00:00:18] My credit card final fantasy breaks the limit [00:00:20] I just paid just brakes to break my lemon [00:00:22] Won't make enough juice for my pessimism [00:00:24] So I'm not for given 'till my debts forgiven [00:00:26] Skim off the top [00:00:28] Convertible roofs [00:00:29] Thinking spanish [00:00:30] Green sounds like the truth [00:00:31] Got it on lock jaw to the tip o' the tooth [00:00:34] Way I floss no dental insurance to boot [00:00:36] But my chain hangs low' I could double dutch [00:00:38] Keep my eyes to the floor so don't stumble much [00:00:40] I shine at night from all the carrots [00:00:42] 'Cause it's not who you are but who you're wearing [00:00:45] Stay sportin lashes from the old massa's [00:00:47] And what's under the chassis [00:00:49] Clasps on the neck says [00:00:52] 'Property of the masses' [00:00:54] The block is gentrified while the governor's classic [00:00:56] Don't know who the boss is do I hold the power [00:00:58] Or am I powered like horses [00:00:59] Whip is blowin' out my back like I'm exhaust-ed [00:01:01] Pipes blowin' more fire than pentecost [00:01:03] Who killed o [00:01:05] Why and what's the reason for [00:01:08] Who starts homicidal wars [00:01:09] Rich man poor man either or [00:01:12] Who shows us what we knead [00:01:14] Who's got the bread for the luxuries [00:01:17] Who told us it's ingrained [00:01:19] We who hold these whips and chains [00:01:21] If there's no lock who needs a key [00:01:26] When did we stop being free [00:01:28] I see things vis a vis a sea change [00:01:33] Full fathom five people became remains deep beneath chains [00:01:35] We pay into easing these pains [00:01:37] 'Cause the history is difficult [00:01:39] Wish the results could be flipped like reciprocals [00:01:44] Allow me to renumerate aloud the typical rude awakenings [00:01:46] Of the drowsy consumer base [00:01:48] Bass boom will make the crowd sing and syncopate with [00:01:51] The views that they're espousing [00:01:53] Synchronize to the stupid take a thousand [00:01:55] Sinning like every excuse they make is valid [00:01:57] Simon Williams I Wonder Man [00:02:00] Just how did our oil get under their sand [00:02:02] And how did our homes get onto their land [00:02:04] And how did our foes get guns in their hands [00:02:07] Conflict diamonds [00:02:07] Child labor tennis shoes [00:02:09] Genocide energy [00:02:10] Gentrified gin and juice [00:02:11] Slave trade banks [00:02:12] Rape-based internet movies [00:02:13] What's a simple straight-laced human to do [00:02:16] With a strange fate twist and fame [00:02:18] Except talk sh*t and name off a list of gains [00:02:21] But do you realize I'd find my lips in flames [00:02:23] If I tried to take pride in these whips and chains [00:02:25] Who killed o [00:02:26] Why and what's the reason for [00:02:29] Who starts homicidal wars [00:02:31] Rich man poor man either or [00:02:34] Who shows us what we knead [00:02:36] Who's got the bread for the luxuries [00:02:38] Who told us it's ingrained [00:02:40] We who hold these whips and chains [00:02:43] Who holds these [00:02:44] Who holds these [00:02:45] Who holds these traps and circuses [00:02:47] We want it [00:02:48] They own it [00:02:49] So we're going half-berserk for it [00:02:51] Let's take it [00:02:53] Let's take it [00:02:54] Let's take it back before cassettes [00:02:56] Pepsi cans and packs of percocet [00:02:58] 1910 all the factory workers said [00:03:01] Yes we can demand a weekend [00:03:03] If we can get the man to weaken [00:03:05] So if you're ready than send a beacon [00:03:07] To be continued and to begin [00:03:09] We can't be content to steep in the anaesthesia [00:03:12] Invisible hands of phantoms depend on [00:03:14] Ya fantasies have been poisoned [00:03:15] But we've got the panacea [00:03:18] Who killed o