Flobots - Rise (07.30.2008) Fort Lauderdale

Flobots perform "Rise" off their album Fight With Tools. If you like your hip-hop with a socially conscious message, tight guitar grooves and electric viola (and who doesn't?), you should check out Flobots.

Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale, FL

So much pain we
Don't know how to be but angry
Feel infected like we've got gangrene
Please don't let anybody try to change me
Me just me
In the middle of a sea full of faces
Full of faces
Some laugh some salivate
What's in your alleyway
Recycling bins or bullet cases
It's not equal
It's not fair
We're different people
But we're not scared
We ain't never scared
To pave a new path
Make a new street
Build a new bridge
Say can you see by the dawns early light
Free slaves running
Songs words weren't right
Now a new day's coming
The few stay stunning while
the many are handsome
Your soul is alive but they
want it for ransom
The base drumming is the anthem
We step to the heartbeats
of our granddaughters and grandsons And

Rise together we

Lost hope and found need
Grounded by our surroundings
Did the walls scream universities
Or you and I verse the tees
React automatic and we
burst when squeezed
And make 9-11 each emergency
Urgency amber to red like
the turning leaves
Oh please let the hurting cease
Don't let apathy police the populace
We will march across
Those stereotypes that
were marked for us
The answer's obvious
We switch the consonants
Change the sword to words
and lift continents

If you believe in redemption
I'm calling to you from
another dimension

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[FloridaSkaters]

i was there that night. it was so kick ass

[EclipseRdaShit]

come see them Dec. 10th at the armstrong theater in CO Springs

[freakincoolness987]

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[fun4life11]

we were theree that night :)