Flobots - Cracks in the Surface lyrics

The water level's rising
The water level's rising
Everyone alive sing: Who will turn the tide?
Bring about land grabs sand
Bags bring 'em out
It's hard to yell with the
Atlantic in your mouth

Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick
Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick

One becomes two becomes three becomes four
Our sound waves run your city like parkour
Provoking encores but we know you want more
That's what we're doing this for
Four becomes three becomes two becomes one
The metamorphosis cannot be undone
We burst forth from the land toward the sun
And transform, the advance has begun

Like Mary J I'm obliged
To hollerate and prophesy
Nostradamus on the topics often
Dropped on open mics
When both sides are vocalized the
Crowd spit's the dopest lines
Efforts gain significance like
Overdrives of dopamine

These narcissists forget to
Do their exercise
Confused by what success implies
Name drop successive tries in drive-thrus
To get extra fries
Emancipating free speech when I run
My mouth terminal cancer
Patients say "Hey when's the CD coming out?"

Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick
Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick

Rhyming enigma I keep 'em guessing
My rhymes are like ribbons when
I wrap the present
Recapture lessons, the ancestors prefaced
In deference to how we break
It down to the essence

Cause there're cracks in the surface
Nobody wants to see 'em
Strategic war games don't call
'em human beings
They call 'em like they want 'em for
A prop in their battle rap
But Solomon and Math will dap
After play the track backwards
Because there's too much death energy
Let it be a muse sing to your best enemy
Never let it be your task master
Let's finish things alive with
Oppression and disaster diminishing

One becomes two becomes three becomes four
Our sound waves run your city like parkour
Provokin' encores but we know you want more
That's what we're doing this for

Four becomes three becomes two becomes one
The metamorphosis cannot be undone
We burst forth from the land toward the sun
And transform, the advance has begun

Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick
Cracks in the surface, cracks in the surface
Tick tick tick tick

Break, them, down break, them, down break
Them down
Break, them, down break, them, down break
Them down