Flobots - Handlebars

Song: Handlebars
Artist: Flobots
Album: Fight With Tools

Flobots is an American rock/rap/hip hop band from Colorado.

I first got into Flobots when I heard handlebars on a radio show podcast. The song is about how humans will work endlessly to create new military applications, but when we need people to do some good it's not taken as seriously. How people see no limits when it comes to increasing our destructive power, but when it comes to to doing some good like ending world hunger or creating peace we'll write it off as impossible. The song begins with someone bragging about relatively innocent things he can do, like riding a bike with no handlebars, knowing the words to a song and being able to "tie a knot in a cherry stem", gradually the things he's bragging about get more serious, like "I can design an engine 64 miles to the gallon of gasoline" and eventually become scary and sinister like "have 'em all healed from their lacerations or have em all killed by assassination" at the end of the song he goes back to saying "I can ride my bike with no handlebars".

"Handlebars"

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me Look at me
Hands in the air like its good to be
Alive and I'm a famous rapper
Even when the paths are all crookedy
I can show you how to dosey doe
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And i can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to De Colores
And I'm proud to be an American
Me and my friends saw a platypus
Me and my friends made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want 'Cause

Look

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome
I can see you face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me look at me
Just called to say that its good to be
Alive in such a small world
I'm all curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine
64 miles to the gallon on gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic
Conditions I know how to run the business
And i can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no resistance 'Cause

I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
And I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can handout a million vaccinations
Or let em all die from exasperations
Have 'em all healed from their lacerations
Or have em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like 'em
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command because

I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
And I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope

And I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Flobots - Handlebars - Youtube (Music Video)