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Flobots - Cracks in the Surface |
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The water level's rising, the water level's rising |
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Everyone alive sing: Who will turn the tide? |
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Bring about land grabs sand bags bring 'em out |
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It's hard to yell with the Atlantic in your mouth. |
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Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface, tick tick tick tick, |
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Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface, tick tick tick tick. |
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One becomes two becomes three becomes four |
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Our sound waves run your city like parkour |
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Provokin' encores but we know you want more |
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That's what we're doing this for. |
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Four becomes three becomes two becomes one |
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The metamorphosis cannot be undone |
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We burst forth from the land toward the sun |
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And transform, the advance has begun. |
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Like Mary J I'm obliged to hollerate and prophesy |
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Nostradamus on the topics often dropped on open mics |
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When both sides are vocalized the crowd spits the dopest lines |
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Efforts gain significance like overdrives of dopamine. |
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These narcissists forget to do their exercise, |
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confused by what success implies |
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Name drop successive tries in drive thrus to get extra fries |
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Emancipating free speech when I run my mouth terminal |
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cancer patients say 'Hey when's the C.D. coming out?' |
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Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface, tick tick tick tick, |
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Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface, tick tick tick tick. |
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Rhyming enigma I keep 'em guessing |
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My rhymes are like ribbons when I wrap the present |
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Recapture lessons, the ancestors prefaced |
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In deference to how we break it down to the essence |
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'Cause there're cracks in the surface, nobody wants to see 'em |
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Strategic war games don't call 'em human beings |
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They call 'em like they want 'em for a prop in their battle rap |
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But Solomon and Math will dap after play the track backwards |
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Because there's too much death energy |
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Let it be a muse sing to your best enemy |
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Never let it be your task master, |
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let's finish things alive with oppression and disaster diminishing. |
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One becomes two becomes three becomes four |
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Our sound waves run your city like parkour |
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Provokin' encores but we know you want more |
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That's what we're doing this for. |
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Four becomes three becomes two becomes one |
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The metamorphosis cannot be undone |
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We burst forth from the land toward the sun |
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And transform, the advance has begun. |
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Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface, tick tick tick tick, |
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Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface, tick tick tick tick. |
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Break, them, down. Break, them, down. Break, them down... |
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Break, them, down. Break, them, down. Break, them down... |