[00:00:00] Defend Atlantis - Flobots [00:00:02] That was as far as the tide came in [00:00:16] I remember the starfish and the wails of the sirens then [00:00:20] We replaced the tridents embraced Poseidon [00:00:24] Discovered ourselves living on an island [00:00:30] We flow like water 'cross the lost city [00:00:32] Chalk prophecies and washed off graffiti [00:00:33] In continents trade off for payoff [00:00:35] And high concepts then lost to K-Os [00:00:37] Many tales radiate from one nexus [00:00:38] Defending a dream of a new directive [00:00:40] A call from the deep sums up a notion [00:00:42] The day when the people bum-rushed the ocean [00:00:43] From the beaches they [00:00:45] Ran to meet the day after [00:00:47] Underneath the waves [00:00:48] Won't repeat the same chapter [00:00:49] Knew what they had to do [00:00:54] That which creates life [00:00:59] Has power to take it right back [00:01:01] F**king with the icecaps [00:01:02] We gotta push the tide back [00:01:04] We can survive collapse if we don't get sidetracked [00:01:08] If we visualize living underwater hidden by prisms [00:01:11] Countries fall but people transition [00:01:13] If one for all we live in that vision [00:01:16] Hundred dollar bill Origami [00:01:17] Balloon inflation new world economy [00:01:18] We float on tsunami to global warming [00:01:20] We need structures to control what's coming [00:01:22] Corporate monopolies obsolete [00:01:23] The philosophy leaves us lost at sea [00:01:26] But from Marwar to Cochabamba [00:01:28] We are the warriors that won't get conquered [00:01:30] 'Cause rising tides drown all villages [00:01:31] Divided fighters succumb to pillage [00:01:33] Rescuers whatever your latitude [00:01:35] It's time to pioneer a new world attitude [00:01:37] Put local cycles first we're Global [00:01:38] Islanders with nothing left to plunder [00:01:40] From the beaches they [00:01:52] Ran to meet the day after [00:01:54] Underneath the waves [00:01:55] Won't repeat the same chapter [00:01:58] Knew what they had to do [00:02:03] For centuries [00:02:06] Human beings have pursued the meaning of Atlantis [00:02:09] Central to their teaching is that it's existence [00:02:11] Answers man's essential questions [00:02:13] Much like the feeding of the five thousand [00:02:16] Even if the facts aren't accurate the story's magic is alive [00:02:19] Of utmost importance to convert the impertinent [00:02:22] Atlantis holds the answer to man's ills at their most pertinent [00:02:26] Aspersions easily dispersed when I certainly answer [00:02:29] The most diverse aversions when I firstly channel [00:02:33] Is this all that you hold for a warrior's role [00:02:37] The ground shakes you claim my country not my soul [00:02:40] I fought I toiled for the lost in the waves [00:02:43] And I will not tire I'll die no slave [00:02:48] If the sea's my grave [00:02:49] I sleep with my city my people my oath my shame my city [00:02:55] Is that I cannot save my city from the waves that claim you [00:02:58] And curse the Gods who can't explain who to blame [00:03:02] At the end of the reign heed me [00:03:06] The season passes Atlas his keep's in the sediment [00:03:09] Failing monumentally and leaving no monuments to see [00:03:13] Only sea to shining sea [00:03:17] And survival hinged on the ascent by the humble [00:03:28] And the sirens wailed as the empire crumbled [00:03:39] With nothing to plunder corporations drowned [00:03:41] Waves clapped like thunder and stormed the gates with sound [00:03:45] Forming a new nation now [00:03:47] As the icecaps melted water levels rose [00:03:53] We raised our hands together and made the levees hold [00:03:56] Heels in the sand we revealed the depths below [00:03:59] The population of starfish exploded from the ocean [00:04:03] Survival we unified to focus on [00:04:07] And the voices were many but we spoke as one [00:04:12] As the tale was retold we multiplied [00:04:13] And swelled across the fault lines to halt the tide [00:04:17] We let the altars die to keep our pulse alive [00:04:22] And from the barren wastelands of naked trash