Flobots - Airplane Mode Lyrics






Cowboys in a spaceship
The crowd noise is wasted
Women take pics so they can seem naked
Guys tell jokes so they can see 'em naked
Church ladies vote what they perceive sacred
Proposition hatred
Phosphorous in riverbeds
Billion dollars spilled to fill esophagus with cigarettes
Philosophers plots to maul nations out of shock and awe
Generation of ideas
Children who won't talk at all
Profits fall
Chalk on walls
Years spent on prison cells
Next to die
Living hell
His twelve peers didn't exercise their privilege well
Babies raised through the glass
Bullets at the border war games take a stab
Coordinate who can pass like a paper bag
Minutes on an internet pornpage fornicate make her gag
What's the damage for the neighbor tagged by the amateur?
Water blast erase the trace of the canisters
Waterpath took the stairways left the banister
Washed over premises turned up percentages
Lost under sludge lots of revised sentences
Defense budgets padded by sandbags and sandwiches

Wasted

Drag this baggage
Hold this Damage
Cope the best that we can manage
Want solutions
Needs new standards
Cry our beauty from the ashes
To do list throw away mail go buy envelopes
Who's this coulda-been-Rhodes'-Scholar-centerfold
Every day's a resource to be sure
Its integral to rebirth from t-shirts to minerals
The ward's filthy
Search for another light in town
Nobody else home
Can't carry their same load
But I feel guilty like the flight went down
And my cell phone wasn't on airplane mode
Soy-based newsprint
Blackmarket foodstamps
Poison in the Pete moss
Suffocated beatbox
B-boys in detox
Corrugated cardboard
Lockheed lobbyists floor debating star wars
Yeast and fungi
Springtails ants and nematodes
Sawdust yellowcake
Organics decompose
Bokashi EM-inoculated wheat bran
Toxic compounds broken down under coffee ground
Ancient carcasses in the sphagnum lost and found
Empty cartridges from a magnum
Tossed into agricultural lime rockflour and seaweed meal
Bioremediate man-made molecules

Wasted

Ashes to eggshells
Woodchips to whiskers
Anything we can mess up we can fix up
Sword to plowshare
Soiled from beneath the trash
Detroit red into El-Hajj Malik Shabazz
Oildrum to steelpan
Prisoner to Gramsci
Rose from the concrete
Reverse the flows of the Ponzi schemes
Cripwalk to a conscious beat
Hip-hop is a compost heap
Gangsters to gardeners
Rivals into partners
Fanatics to reformers
Felons into farmers
Inmates to fathers of innercity scholars
Poptart to salad
Teens into college
Lawns into restaurants
Centerfold models to artists
Police abuse to catharsis
Street sergeants into peace departments
Thousand dollar bills to green for all markets
Backlots to blacktops and cashcrops for have nots
Metal into scrap shops
Jobs for the cast-offs
Crackspots into earthships for urban astronauts
Reservation into reservoir
Of wisdom we used to know
Use the whole animal
Landfill to future home
Pacifist guerrillas to bazooka zones
Black hawks to attics
C-130's to superdome
Newborns on computerphones
So the smile's not wasted





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  1. t.... f....

    The flobots are brilliant.

  2. V.... Z....

    "Gansgsters to gardeners.
    Rivals into partners.
    Fanatics to reformers.
    Felons into farmers."

    A true appalachian story!

  3. N.... O....

    No feeling thinking breathing person is an object.
    I'm so angry and disappointed

  4. A.... S....

    This song is a masterpiece and deserves more attention than it has currently.

  5. t.... ....

    Great song!

  6. P.... ....

    "Anything we mess up we can fix up."

    Song had me there since day one 👺

  7. I.... G....

    The lead guitar on this is awesome! Iaooooooow, aaaaaaoww aaaaaoooowwww aoooooooow!

  8. J.... B....

    I was trying to find this song...it’s even better than I remember

  9. s.... j....

    I'm the 400th subscriber!!!

  10. G.... ....

    Masterpiece.

  11. E.... R....

    Cómo se llama la música del violín sola??

    E.... R....

    LUISH EL PRO to no se pedo pa numbre de Ella es Mackenzie Roberts

  12. T.... C....

    download link ? pls

    T.... C....

    Have you people never heard of Youtube to mp3 conversion?

  13. A.... B....

    "But I feel guilty like the flight went down and my cellphone wasn"t on airplane mode."

  14. L.... 1....

    last comment

    L.... 1....

    Commie fucker

  15. O.... M....

    Mackenzie Roberts should do more vocals (even though she is amazing at viola too)

  16. C.... ....

    Women take pics so they can seem naked
    Guys tell jokes so they can see 'em naked

  17. n.... p....

    cough real frank

    n.... p....

    Ummmm....*coughs*? 😉

  18. M.... K....

    good lyrics job. we thank you about.

  19. M.... i....

    What's your name? I keep hearing mine.... Isaac

  20. S.... ....

    That's like most Flobots songs, they are like hip-hop's Rise Against!

  21. Z.... P....

    This song just blows my mind >..< I had to listen to it like five times before it REALLY registered.

    Z.... P....

    Just like how many times it took to understand the movie inception

  22. L.... M....

    It's ''Guys tell jokes so they can se'em naked''

    Just saying :)

    L.... M....

    send nudes

  23. J.... C....

    I keep hearing my name at 1:35!

    J.... C....

    Jarad Craig wasted is ur name

  24. C.... H....

    i just found this... and im satisfied

  25. v.... ....

    Thanks for uploading it mate , Cheers

  26. W.... B....

    i couldn't live without the flobots there to remind me it's worth it

  27. P.... B....

    3 people left there phones off of Airplane Mode

  28. T.... ....

    kind of reminds me of cello suite no.1 by bach

  29. I.... I....

    this kind of reminds me of the soundtrack on runescape. especially toward 5:00

  30. D.... G....

    Hip Hop s a compost heap. I think that message is loud and clear.

  31. D.... ....

    I think its the fast pace cuz I listen to them too when liftin.

  32. M.... ....

    Poptarts aren't even unhealthy though.

  33. M.... ....

    they are the only people that iknoe that can rock a violin solo and during their whole song ♥

  34. M.... ....

    @teddybear4729 you forgot the dis* part just wanted to let you knoe that . BIG difference...

  35. K.... ....

    Flobots are so underated!

  36. B.... ....

    @rebelrussian It takes two people to argue. If he hadn't kept giving me notifications, I wouldn't keep coming back to the video. Nice job for being a bitch and starting yet another argument. Try not to be so hypocritical.

  37. B.... ....

    @BlackDiamond0562 Maybe you're the one that needs to read things more carefully. Did I say in ANY of my posts that you were trolling?

  38. V.... M....

    @Bloodtoxx

    nice job for being a bitch and continuing this, what BlackDiamond0562 is doing is perfectly clear and yet you start an argument for no apparent reason hahaha

  39. B.... ....

    @BlackDiamond0562 Who said they were trolling their own hero? People are just trolling yours, you're merely stupid enough to take offense to it. Congratulations on being the moron that feeds them.

  40. B.... ....

    @BlackDiamond0562 They're not everyone's heroes, so don't be so naive.

  41. B.... ....

    @KIDENVY4 I'm a huge troll.. I still wouldn't mess with Flobots. How can you troll your freaking heroes?

  42. B.... ....

    @LimosRock1 It sounds like its saying guys say jokes so they can see em naked but then again I've never been very good with lyrics :P

  43. S.... L....

    I don't know why, but I always turn to Flobots when I lift. The beat and style just get me so pumped! Best band ever!

  44. G.... ....

    by far the best song on the album

    G.... ....

    Grensley hell ya

  45. V.... M....

    @AfroDaWickedist this is radical punk-rap.lol.its a new age of music,real music with meaning.who cares what it is?they're breaking new ground.they're going beyond labels.theyre showing music is music.

  46. F.... ....

    is this made by a black emo guy

  47. N.... ....

    ....Why is there a dislike.-. Who let a 'Youtube troll' Near here?

  48. T.... T....

    £Lõßõ†§ RõÇK

  49. P.... D....

    i honestly never really understood what he was talking about until i read the lyrics just now lol now i see how meaningful this song is. That last verse is amazing.

  50. i.... ....

    reminds me of the gravel road

  51. l.... ....

    @WorthWatchingVv explain

  52. Z.... ....

    Lovely ♥

  53. L.... ....

    @MrGuy1232 :D

  54. M.... ....

    I like that in the tags this song is already called the best song ever

  55. O.... ....

    omg man its just boom boom boom boom the lyrics are just good o.o

  56. Z.... L....

    It's, "Guys tell jokes so they can SEE 'EM naked".

    Z.... L....

    trueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  57. S.... ....

    @okthatsnice i doubt its a christ thing probably just the way that a person stands up against every thing and the wave is all the things the flobots speak out against but hey i could be 100% wrong

  58. N.... ....

    they have gone a long way since handlebars

  59. D.... ....

    Man! I want this song played at my funeral!!

  60. K.... W....

    I never noticed the guy standing on the rock in the ocean before, possibly a reference to christ being the rock/foundation to stand on?.. standing firm that Tidal waves won't shake you?

  61. K.... E....

    song fron a good observer ! love it thank you flobots...

  62. y.... ....

    God I just want to go sleep for ever. No worry, not suicidal, just made the mistake to listen to this at night. Actualy, that might be the best decison in my life.

  63. h.... ....

    the lyrics are amazing. and the layout is blissful. thanks for posting.

  64. L.... ....

    @ProudAtheistIndiana Thank you

  65. d.... ....

    Dude, great job with the lyrics!