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