Defend Atlantis

[00:01.37]Flobots - Defend Atlantis [00:02.43]That was as far as the tide came in [00:16.56]I remember the starfish and the wails of the sirens then [00:20.74]We replaced the tridents, embraced Poseidon [00:24.13]Discovered ourselves living on an island [00:30.43]We flow like water 'cross the lost city [00:32.31]Chalk prophecies and washed off graffiti [00:33.19]In continents, trade off for payoff [00:35.19]And high concepts then lost to K-Os [00:37.68]Many tales radiate from one nexus [00:39.00]Defending a dream of a new directive [00:40.31]A call from the deep sums up a notion [00:42.18]The day when the people bum-rushed the ocean [00:43.94]From the beaches they [00:45.12]Ran to meet the day after [00:47.18]Underneath, the waves [00:48.44]Won't repeat the same chapter [00:49.62]Knew what they had to do [00:54.56]That which creates life [00:59.31]Has power to take it right back [01:01.18]******* with the icecaps [01:02.87]We gotta push the tide back [01:04.68]We can survive, collapse if we don't get sidetracked [01:08.43]If we visualize living underwater hidden by prisms [01:11.37]Countries fall but people transition [01:13.24]If one for all, we live in that vision [01:16.49]Hundred dollar bill Origami [01:17.56]Balloon inflation, new world economy [01:18.68]We float on tsunami to global warming [01:20.24]We need structures to control what's coming [01:22.31]Corporate monopolies obsolete [01:23.12]The philosophy leaves us lost at sea [01:26.18]But from Marwar to Cochabamba [01:28.25]We are the warriors that won't get conquered [01:30.06]'Cause rising tides drown all villages [01:31.68]Divided fighters succumb to pillage [01:33.75]Rescuers whatever your latitude [01:35.43]It's time to pioneer a new world attitude [01:37.43]Put local cycles first we're Global [01:38.74]Islanders with nothing left to plunder [01:40.37]From the beaches they [01:52.81]Ran to meet the day after [01:54.87]Underneath, the waves [01:55.68]Won't repeat the same chapter [01:58.56]Knew what they had to do [02:03.68]For centuries [02:06.50]Human beings have pursued the meaning of Atlantis [02:09.49]Central to their teaching is that it's existence [02:11.93]Answers man's essential questions [02:13.74]Much like the feeding of the five thousand [02:16.18]Even if the facts aren't accurate, the story's magic is alive [02:19.05]Of utmost importance to convert the impertinent [02:22.49]Atlantis holds the answer to man's ills at their most pertinent [02:26.75]Aspersions easily dispersed when I certainly answer [02:29.49]The most diverse aversions when I firstly channel [02:33.37]Is this all that you hold for a warrior's role? [02:37.50]The ground shakes, you claim my country, not my soul [02:40.74]I fought, I toiled for the lost in the waves [02:43.80]And I will not tire, I'll die no slave [02:48.12]If the sea's my grave [02:49.81]I sleep with my city, my people, my oath, my shame, my city [02:55.24]Is that I cannot save my city from the waves that claim you [02:58.99]And curse the Gods who can't explain who to blame [03:02.68]At the end of the reign, heed me [03:06.06]The season passes Atlas, his keep's in the sediment [03:09.75]Failing monumentally and leaving no monuments to see [03:13.62]Only sea to shining sea [03:17.87]And survival hinged on the ascent by the humble [03:28.87]And the sirens wailed as the empire crumbled [03:39.49]With nothing to plunder, corporations drowned [03:41.05]Waves clapped like thunder and stormed the gates with sound [03:45.93]Forming a new nation now [03:47.74]As the icecaps melted water levels rose [03:53.87]We raised our hands together and made the levees hold [03:56.93]Heels in the sand, we revealed the depths below [03:59.75]The population of starfish exploded from the ocean [04:03.62]Survival, we unified to focus on [04:07.37]And the voices were many but we spoke as one [04:12.12]As the tale was retold, we multiplied [04:13.93]And swelled across the fault lines to halt the tide [04:17.43]We let the altars die to keep our pulse alive [04:22.06]And from the barren wastelands of naked trash [04:24.99]We stitched together, a shelter from fallen nation's flags [04:29.12]And chose to build a future from an ancient past [04:32.86]The crowns of thorns was worn, we put the Tritons down [04:35.93]We found new forms of anchors deep inside the ground [04:39.43]The world is an island now