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  • my personal interpretation of this song is simply stated never underestimate anyone. For all you know an employee that works for you could one day own your company. "Life is like a box of chocolates"-Forrest Gump

  • who's the jackass who has been giving everyone thumbs down who ever IS doing it read the entire comment and try to process that were commenting in a good way XD

  • I nearly cried the second time I watched it. :(

  • what has this world become...

  • The world didn't just start being a terrible, evil place, now. Jjust look at the past, it's always been like this.

  • Before I watched the music video I thought it was about a little kid being proud of the bike and then growing up to be proud of starting a holocaust. I kind of think the story would've been better if that was the case but its still really good

  • I never actually thought I would like any music like this. But then a good friend sent me this Song here and well, I just love it.

  • i usually dont like rap or hiphop well today's hiphop anyway but nobody can hate this it has WAY too much meaning to it i love to listen to songs with meaning whatever genre it is ^-^

  • duh like this is new what do think hip hop is for yo! freak mouth thunderdome! so loud dont need a microphone!

  • Our own government is going to enslave us.

    Fuck the NWO!

  • amazing how words have so much impact

  • i just love this song and vid so much, it is so true and very good message!!!! 1 fav part at 1:31 it shows the stocks going up like a blood stain, becuase its so freaking true

  • if you liked these lyrics, you may also like: Do The Evolution - Pearl Jam

  • So true... So true...

  • if anyone here knows the true meaning of this song then you would know why this is one of the saddest songs on earth.

  • @sk8boardingandmilk isnt it about how the government should not be able to do what ever with no consiquences?

    Either way is a good but very deep song

  • @lovaofMUSIK yep thats pretty much it. but also its about the hal.....a nevermind thats pretty much it

  • Actually the writer of this song intended it to show what man-kind is capable of but unintentionally it's opened the general viewers minds to an abundance of other issues that also need addressing.

  • well thats it to.

  • @sk8boardingandmilk what else is it about?

  • Very sad indeed..

  • this blows, umg made this vid private,

  • i first heard this song in john of Gods so good memories to a class song

  • love it

  • i clicked one star on accident so sorry. i guess its just been a long day. cool video tho actualy the best.

  • deep

  • @thedeadhalo very

  • if any of you guys/girls like this song listen to

    Stand Up even better

  • @JordanLikesHondas Stand Up what? Whats the artist?

  • @Galfuris by the same artist, Flobots, of course!!

  • @JordanLikesHondas Thanks! Btw, the song is very nice! :)

  • im pretty sue this song is about misusing power and using it with greed and agression....just a hought

  • this song s the best

  • gud song!

  • sad but great song

  • this is kinda sad.... but awesome song

  • love it

  • hmm...thoughtfull

    i think this song has 2 meanings:

    first of all the corruption of the government.

    and the second thought...i think it has something to do with how different lives can go, though you had the same thoughts and interests as kids and you became like 2 opposite sides.

  • soooooo good! i didn't really understand the song till i watched the video... and i'm so dumb for it! GREAT SONG!!!

  • im probalby stupid for asking this but is that the offical vid for that song i saw one other vid i thought was the offical one but it wasnt animated like this one is

  • great!

  • awesome video to an awesome song.

  • GREAT SONG!!! watched it like 6 times today and 3 times yesterday, such an inteligent and good sounding song. makes me get thoughtfull too.

    would like to rate it 6 Stars

  • This song is mint...

  • lollove this song

  • awsome song !!! random and sad ; )

  • fuck u its awsome !!!

  • schools are shit because they teach the same shit to everyone, instead of increasing each individuals skills, we are all different and are good at different things , and lets face it half of what they teach is bullshit ,,take history for example the winners write it so its never a true account ,i have learnt more since i left school

  • I left school at 13 and I'm doing quite well for myself.

    As long as you get your ass to college and come out qualified in something that you choose is best for you. Hell, school just prepares you for that a little bit, and I got along just fine learning what I needed to with google to get by, ended up top of my class funnily enough.

    So I'm 100% with you on that one.

  • true man but its all part of the nwo schooling is one big scam to keep us down and hold us back from what we are really capable of

  • says the person who named mimself after a games console :P

  • no offence mate but skwl isnt stopin us for wat were capable of, infact i think it helps us, for the first couple of years, but once u get to highschool an stuff i think its all just bullshit after tht, an personally, ive learnt alot more out of school than i ever did in school just sayin lol school just basically repeats its self day in, day out with similar stuff each lesson an i think the world would be a much betr place if we were teached depending on out skills in a subject an gd at lol

  • Apparently grammar and spelling weren't taught that much. You have a good point but it is obliterated by the nigh unreadability of your post.

  • soz but i didnt get the memo sayin i had to speek like a british scholar tht was stuck up his ass =) im gessing u did tho?

  • Alright you dont have to speak like a british scholar, But you do need to have somewhat good grammar and spelling to get somewhere in the world. Writing and spelling like that makes it look like your an idiot. Other then telling you that, this song rocks.

  • but*, you're*, than*.

  • Yeah, although epistemic philosophy should be a main subject for everyone.

  • ha u should av got a thumbs up 4 that

  • i don't know if your trying to say that public schools are bad but think were have most of the people who HAVE made the world a better place for example scientists many of them went to public schools, yes some do bad things like make bombs and other things but alot of them try to find cures for diseases which save lives without a school there would be no learning and no cures,hardly any jobs, and without schools were would leaders come from without someone to lead a country there would be chaos.

  • You wanna know something mind blowing?

    i can ride my bike with no handle bars =D

    Such a tune.

  • great tune :) liked it soo much i put it on my fone! x

  • the songs called Handlebars... amazing, great lyrics too. We favourite flobots song is Rise

  • ive never known a song with such meaning

  • This song is sad, it makes me want to cry. It's the story of two friends who take differnt paths in life. One takes the moraly correct path in life, while the other takes the "corporate" life. They talk on the phone about the stresses of corporate life, and what it means to be a player in the system. They meet again when they see each other right before a massacre at a roit. I believe they reunited while heading towards the light, and once again they have nothing to worry about but handlebars,

  • wow thats the best on i've heard so war

  • "so war" hehe epic typo :D

  • The president is a puppet, it doesnt matter who you have, the real people controlling the country are behind the curtains.

    Money controls the country. The president doesnt control the money.

  • u know that obama isnt better than bush, i hate bush too but obama is a marionette, just cause he ot a nice smile and handsome character doesnt make him better, he is just more popular cause the media pushed him, but look at obamas actions, he is as bad as bush

  • i love this :D

  • It shows how people have power without control... bike with no handlebars, you cant really help the direction things go sometimes. Great song.

  • i love the way this song displays mankinds lust for power. and the way that even it we where going to use it for good, when we get it our humanity takes over. and bad things always seem to happen

    so poignant for our world today.

  • shame about your gay-ass comment

  • Though your opinion is also entirely pointless.......So y'know.

  • rofl, seems like a deep observation for a sparkly bitch :p but yeah i agree with what you're saying

  • very good song.

  • Most of this is parts of one of Ronald Reagans Speeches. If you think I lie and this is all bullshit, then look it up for yourself. unless your afraid, unless your worried you might be wrong from the moment you decided Reagan was a big business mouth piece of some unknown trusts or monopolies being controlled by the republican party. You judge this great american by other peoples views because your to lazy or scared to have your own. Promote your own cause, dont slander someone elses

  • You're.

  • no offence, but you're supposed to get defensive AFTER someone attacks you

  • the Pharoahs, should Christ have refused the cross? Should the Patriots at Concord bridge have thrown down their guns and refuse to fire the shot heard round the world. The martyres of history where not fools. Where then lies the road to peace? well its a simple answer after all, if you and I have the courage to tell our enemies there is a price we will not pay, there is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of peace through strength. God Bless America and R&R!

  • What then, when the ultimatum comes, when its between freedom and life, our choice will be volunteery surrender, because by then, we will have been weakened from within spiritualy, morally and economically. and therein lies the road to war, cause those voices dont speak for the rest of us, Because Life isnt so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased by the chains of slavery. When did this begin, just in the face of this enemy? or should moses have told the jews to live under the oppression of

  • The utopian solution of peace without victory. The policy of accomodation, the danger of appeasement. If only we avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy he will forget his evil ways and love us. All who oppose this ideal are called warmongers. There is a gaurinteed way you can have peace and you can have it in the next second, surrender. admitidly there is a risk in anything else, but history tells us the greater danger lies with apeasement. If we continue to back down and retreat.

  • Hey Eric, get ur facts straight. I can back up my arguements 5000 more times then you, but ask this question, why is it that republican contributers are called fat cats and democratic contributers public spirited philanthrophists. The answer "lies" with the media. MSNBC, CBS, ect. they think that they represent the American public. Every one of their stories is completely byass to the "democrats" side, or the left. Look at the proof, look up ACORN, political machine, and barrack hussein obama

  • he killed his friend, his friends neighboors lives and caused a very big war which he did not want thats one message i got

  • Where does one man freedom begin and another mans freedom end? WOW!

  • Id like to say Communism isnt bad. its the image that the russias set it as. usualy caused by poverty, its a way of making everything fair and setting things in balence but that comes at a cost. Living comes at a cost.

  • If society were wholly robots then yes.

    Sorry but communism fails when the humanity comes in contact with it

  • True, it sounds and was a good method on paper but it = bad society in general.

  • the "bad" friend is just like obama, a front man

    the other guy is me, HEHEHE HERO MAN IS ME!!!!1

  • Actually the 'bad' friend represents everything the Republican Party does, big business, money, power, and how those things are used the wrong way, as is usually the case with the Republican Party.

  • pure epic song.. i belive there is more than one message in the song but idno

  • iam sure there are much more messages in this song ...

  • oh man, at the end he killz his freind!! <=o

  • This song gives me the chills everytime I watch it, alright I'll try to explain as best I can, two friends exactly the same just enjoying eachothers company while riding their bikes, but when they enter the world one friend chooses the 'peaceful life' while the other decides to go down the corporate road, the one who chooses the peaceful life is happy with his rundown neighbourhood, it's not flashy but it has nice people and a nice environment, hence he's happy and content with what he has.

  • (continuation) But the other who chose the corporate road chooses to try to make a name for himself but the catch with that is the curse of greed and power hunger that usually ensues. So he makes it to the top, he now has the power to do what ever he wants, he excersises that power trying to 'improve' the world to his liking but while doing so he pushes aside those who he doesnt deem fit to be in his new world, hence destroying the peace his friend once had.

  • (End) The friend who chose the way of peace cant handle the way his friend is now treating people so he gathers those who are mistreated and leads them to revolt but in the end both friends die, the one who chose to revolt die's a physical death while the corporate friend die's a spiritual death after seeing what he's become. We're all just trying to survive in this world, we're all looking for some small measure of happiness, if you forget that, you loose. In the end we're all the same, Equals.

  • the main guy from flobots (Jamie Laurie i think) says the song and video are to do with the amazing potential of all humans

  • i believe you. :D

  • 1337 Commenter. =]

  • yeah lol, what is the message? :P

  • ok, so i've watched a few vids on this song, and alot of ppl are saying powerfull message etc, is the message to stop war? because im lost lol

  • love it!

  • this song is better with the video. helps reinforce the message

  • the song and vid is awesome the massage is very big...

    but i can't understand it sogood becouse i'm from germany and my english isn't so good....

    d.D

  • deep messages in this vid

  • what is it? i have my own, but i just want to match it up with yours

  • This song might not be the type... of music ppl listen 2... i mean i dnt listen 2 this type much... but its got a message... something... not many songs have... and nearly all the flobots songs got messages on somfing happenin in the world... Like stand up! (stand up for ur self and rights) fight with tools! Rise! and a couple more... i started listenin 2 em recently... but u gta repect musc like this!

    it gives a message and a sign the cud help us all :)

  • it wouldn't be on the TV or radio because its a huge bash on the government and authority of the planet having too much control.

  • I heard this on the radio first

  • There is a message here. the video will give you a clue. That's why it's not on the radio/TV

  • This song is SO full of win! Why haven't we heard anything else from these guys?

    My local alternative staion plays the same 3 Emo bands all day, but a thing form these guys. wtf?

  • just heard this song from someone. i like it a lot... lyrics are awesome too

  • I like the beat but the lyrics give me chills. I really like this song but this video. Of people getting killed? I don't like it..

  • You clearly dont understand the message of the song :(

  • shup!

  • "at the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box"

  • bloody awsome

  • songs fucking great and da video is perfect

  • Wow... 15 seconds you say, so before any of the words are sung and all you see in a person riding a bike :/

  • greatest song video ever

    its amazing how it builds up the inspirational effects throughout the song then almost shoots you with them when the uprising gets gunned down at the end.

    this video gets me thinking every time i watch it...

  • go on then whats it about

  • Love this song!!!!!! vincentwiliamphilips said it ALL rite!!!!!! Nice comment. This song is SO inspirational.

  • this the greatest song ever if say this song sucks than u got problems

  • coooool song

  • Great tune, and video.

  • this song is about corruption in the government and how it is the peoples responsability to control the government not the government controling the people

  • best music video ever created

  • i love this song so much. :)

  • Well if you see the two people at the begging are friends and they go through stages of accomplishments that they are proud of, take riding a bike with no handle bars for instance, if you ever did that when you were a kid you felt proud of it the first time right? Then it lead on to other things, accomplishments can lead to being creative or destructive later in life depending on how you want to built up from riding a bike with no handle bars.

  • lol wen i tried to ride with no handle bars i fell off so i awsnt so proud

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  • Yeah,i tried and i almost fell. lol But i love this song it's so inspirational.

  • dude u said it perfectally

  • This song isn't about "commies" or "terrorists" or anything of the kind. It's about power and control in our own country. He's talking about the United States government. It's scary that, as blatant as the lyrics are, listeners aren't making the connection.

  • (judging fate)

  • at 2:24 it somewhat seems like the eminem mosh video against bush

  • lol... kinda funny but retarded song....

    no handlebars... lol

  • retard, listen to the lyrics

  • wow what a retard, learn to listen

  • i think the message is like how 2 friends seperate and (lyrics keep track of their lives) end up hurting each other in the end because of greed and power

  • sickness!!!!

  • i love the song each time you watch it you find something you missed i just wish i fully understood it

  • its fucked uo sum peoples interpertaions of this song

  • i always thought the message was not being in full control of our actions...

  • this song has a strong message i think and it will come true if we dont stop it in the community (sorry i just wont up so im half a sleep for my spelling)

  • and im sorry for my bad grammar and misspellings

  • jut watch the video and understand it or dont i dont care

    but its very strange how many selfmade videos you can find treating this song.

    guys... you cant just pick every word out of this song and add a picture treating this word...

    i think they couldnt have picked a better movie for this song than this one. it made me thinking about many things which are happening at this time!

    great!

  • no handlbars...i ♥ this songgg =]

    on tha telephone.=]

  • lol. this song contains messages about the commies. (i think anyways...)

  • at first me and my m8s would take the piss out of this cuz of the beggining but now i realize its actually awesome as hell!

  • I LUV DIS SONG!!!!!!!!

  • Bloody hell that's powerful :-o

    Hadn't really ever heard this before, and now that I have it's when the G20 oppression's still fresh in my mind...couldn't think of a better song to go with the moment!

  • Viva la resistance indeed

  • Damn, that's deep...Viva la resistance!!!

  • I loved this before everyone else, and now i love it afer everyone else, i don't mean liek epeopel listening to it now, i mean the mainstream people, the sheep. I hated it when they started to listen to it.

  • Yeah. I hate it when people listen to something like this or watch somthing as powerful as this AFTER everyone who accualy get the meaning behind it tell them about and they pretend to have know all along. That pisses me off.

  • theres a simple way of saying this war and peace wht it brings and wht will happen plus two friends who went separet ways

  • awesome! every single comment loves this song: Judge for yourself.

  • so meaningfull it makes you think

  • great song

  • good song..... must not have took long to think about the lyrics tho lol, it only about things he can do

  • if you accually listen to the lyrics, it means a whole notha story...which is very, very powerful

  • what are you talking about, it has incredibally deep meaning did you actully listen to the lyrics?

  • deep song

  • Wow, this is my fav song right now. So powerful and shows the cost of power.

  • WOW! This is my fav song right now. It's so powerful.

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  • Best song i've ever herd

  • Luv this song ur gonna get more views now the top one is suitable for a diff country gd for you :D Good luck 10 / 10

  • what is this song attuly about?