To Rebel or Follow? (video)

Flobots, Nov. 30, 2009; Genius.com; Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

This is about independence. We’re free to choose our paths. It's influenced by 20th century corruption and the changes it brought about. There is the power of individual choice. Here two friends choose different life paths -- a simple citizen who rebels to save the world and someone (a president) who can end the world if he wished.

LYRICS: "Handlebars" (Flobots)

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 it's good to be

Alive, and I'm a famous rapper

Even when the paths are all crooked-y

I can show you how to do-si-do

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 friend 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

And I can see your face on the telephone

On the telephone, on the telephone

Look at me, look at me

Just called to say that it's 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 a gallon of 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 assistance, 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 hand out a million vaccinations

Or let 'em all die in exasperation

Have 'em all healed from their lacerations

Or have 'em all killed by assassinations

I can make anybody go to prison

Just because I don't like 'em

And 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

Music and video by Flobots performing Handlebars. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 18,313,639. (C) 2008 Universal Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.