[00:00.00]Mayday!!! (Album Version|Edited) - Flobots [00:00.67]Born in the flood bloody finger-paint sets [00:03.89]Black marketed fresh water canons forget me not [00:07.64]Epitaph airbrush with death [00:10.30]White T's wife beaters button up reattach flesh [00:14.90]In between the lines outside of the law [00:18.25]Underneath the veil we dig our foundations [00:21.25]We navigate the globe trying to find a pattern to break the mold [00:24.78]With a family to feed theres nowhere we won't go [00:29.19]But what if were caught [00:30.89]They said I'm a snitch [00:32.56]Shot at the check point [00:34.11]Found with his throat slit [00:35.80]Theres spray paint on the teleprompter [00:36.72]Anchorman screams that hes seen a monster [00:38.88]Mayday theres bloodstains on his shirt [00:40.88]Mayday they say that hes gone berserk [00:46.26]Sometimes when I wanna shut out this world [00:49.02]Wanna rip up this page [00:50.39]Wanna pour out this heart [00:52.03]Wanna get up on this stage [00:53.67]And my lips become percussion [00:55.12]And my fists become the rage [00:56.88]And I pound on this table [00:58.46]Till it gives me something to say [01:00.27]Then I think about things [01:01.10]That I've seen right in front of me [01:02.80]That I don't wanna believe [01:03.50]Gimme one of these mikes [01:04.95]Let me let em know the way that it is [01:07.26]Is not how its gonna be [01:08.65]Not if we don't let em get ahead of us [01:10.71]The present tensions no threat [01:12.13]Its just a fence across the path [01:14.14]That we're already ready to walk [01:15.76]Rock solid footsteps let em put up obstacles [01:17.96]And prove that it isnt possible f**k that [01:20.74]We don't give em any weight [01:22.36]True liberty and freedoms at stake [01:23.44]Peace will never become pass [01:24.90]Live my life until my last day [01:26.60]It was half-past eight in the bat cave [01:28.91]When the cracks in the plaster collapsed [01:30.48]And gave way to gaps in the pavement [01:32.52]Mayday mayday [01:33.65]Put it on blast [01:34.65]For the passengers and messengers [01:36.40]Cause this is a disaster [01:37.88]Where the f**k are the rescue workers [01:40.01]Not far off pissing on a cop car [01:43.02]In the hall with a Pop-Tart [01:44.50]Sipping liquor in the rock bar [01:46.65]Everyone climb to the frontline lunchtimes canceled [01:49.36]All hands on deck to pull survivors from the landfill [01:52.77]Onlookers passers-by brush off your shoulders [01:56.20]Shake off that rubble [01:57.78]Break free from your standstill [02:00.72]Signs of a better world causes we understand [02:04.01]Failures we expected to occur [02:06.52]And bring redemption for our sins [02:08.37]Safety from the crowds in the shadows on the run [02:11.96]We write our own Cider House Rules [02:13.54]To keep alive rituals that prove their worth [02:16.12]Search for systems we can trust [02:17.92]Rhythms we can lock into [02:25.28]This is madness salvage teams can't bandage [02:26.78]Hope when its damaged or broken compassion [02:28.32]Not enough rope in the van [02:29.44]When world is collapsing our mode of action [02:31.20]Broadcast through the glass all we can manage [02:33.68]Donate with the plastic scraps from the salad [02:35.53]Hoping to balance emotions invalidated [02:36.94]And staged on 4:3 aspects [02:38.63]Just ballast for sadness lives shattered [02:40.82]Are standard fare for cameras and channels stare [02:43.73]No abracadabras no faster answers or mantras for disasters [02:47.34]Remastered or plastered we got it all backwards [02:49.95]Do you know the faction you're backing [02:51.95]Its another man down another mother gone [02:53.65]Child drowned another silenced song [02:54.89]Solitude another kind of strong [02:56.52]I miss you another strung along [02:58.62]Missing in action [02:59.60]Another page is blackened burned [03:01.37]Turned ashes to ashes [03:02.99]Dust off the flags and the caskets [03:04.77]We'll never find another you [03:06.35]Despite the life of love we knew [03:07.97]These lightning times are trouble [03:09.64]Who can't count the strikes that punished through [03:11.35]The bonds we thought would never break [03:13.07]And never will and never change and never fade [03:15.47]But theres the rage [03:16.50]Of losing you to their mistakes [03:18.34]In between the lines [03:19.77]Refuge from the crow [03:21.31]Causes we understand [03:22.98]Hands that trace instructions [03:23.69]For descendants in the shadows on the run [03:26.61]Failures we expected to occur [03:29.31]And bring redemption for our sins [03:31.42]In between the lines [04:00.19]In between the lines outside of the law [04:03.40]Underneath the veil [04:07.12]In between the lines outside of the law [04:10.53]Underneath the veil [04:14.17]In between the lines outside of the law [04:17.21]Underneath the veil [04:19.19]We carve our foundations [04:20.95]In between the lines outside of the law [04:24.11]In between the lines