Flobots - Whip$ and Chain$ lyrics

Strange fruit I roll up in my Ford Taurus
Emissions won't pass like Gandalf at Moria
Way out of order, should be pulled over
Pulled out garage, lost side view mirror

Credit card, Final Fantasy breaks the limit
I just paid just brakes to break my lemon
Didn't make enough juice for my pessimism
So I'm not for givin' till my debt's forgiven
So I skim off the top, convertible roof
Thinking Spanish green sounds like the truth
Got it on lockjaw to the tip of the tooth
Way I floss no dental insurance to boot

But my chain hangs low, I could double Dutch
Keep my eyes to the floor
So don't stumble much
I shine bright at night from all the karats
'Cause it's not who you are
But who you're wearing

Stay sporting lashes from the old massas
Clasp on the neck says
"Property of the masses"
And what's under the chassis?
The block is gentrified while
The governor's classic

Don't know who the boss is
Do I hold the power or
Am I powered like horses?
Whip is blowin' out my
Back like I'm exhausted
Pipes blowin' more fire than the Pentecost

Who killed Jdimytai Damour?
Why, and what's the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either or?
Who shows us what we knead?
Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us that it's ingrained?
We who hold these whips and chains

If there's no lock (No key)
Who needs a key? (No key)
When did we stop (When did we stop)
Being free? (Be free)

I see things, vis-à-vis a sea change
Full fathom five people became
Remains deep beneath chains
We pay into easing these pains

'Cause the history is difficult
Wish the results could be
Flipped like reciprocals
Allow me to renumerate aloud the typical rude
Awakenings of the drowsy consumer base
Bass boom will make the crowd sing and
Synchronize to the proof
That they're espousing
And syncopate to the stupid take a thousand
Sinning like every excuse they make is valid

Simon Williams, I wonder man
Just how did our oil get under their sand?
And how did our homes get onto their land?
And how did our foes get guns in their hands?

Conflict diamonds child labor tennis shoes
Genocide energy gentrified gin and juice
Slave trade banks rape based internet movies
What's a straight laced simpleton to do?
With a strange fate twist and fame
Except talk shit and name off a list of gains
But do you realize I'd find my lips in flames
If I ever took pride in
These whips and chains

Who killed Jdimytai Damour?
Why, and what's the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either or?
Who shows us what we knead?
Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us that it's ingrained?
We who hold these whips and chains

Who holds these who holds these
Who holds these traps and surfaces
We want it they own it
So we're going half-berserk for it
Well let's take it let's take it
Let's take it back before cassettes
Pepsi cans and packs of Percocet
1910 all the factory workers said
Yes we can demand a weekend
If we can get the man to weaken
So if you're ready then send a beacon
To be continued and to begin
We can't be content to
Steep in the anesthesia
Invisible hands of phantoms depend on
Ya fantasies have been poisoned
But we've got the panacea!

Who killed Jdimytai Damour?
Why, and what's the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either or?
Who shows us what we knead?
Who's got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us that it's ingrained?
We who hold these whips and chains