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 plot 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 gla** Bullets at the border, war games take a stab Coordinate who can pa** like a paper bag Minutes on an internet p**n page, fornicate make her gag What's the damage for the neighbor tagged by the amateur? Water blast erase the trace of the canisters Water path 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, need new standards Cry our beauty from the ashes Drag this baggage, hold this damage Cope the best that we can manage Want solutions, need 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 it's integral The 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 cellphone wasn't on airplane mode Soy-based newsprint, black market food stamps Poison in the Pete moss, suffocated beat box B-boys in detox, corrugated cardboard Lockheed lobbyists' floor debating 'Star Wars' Yeast and fungi, spring-tails ants and nematodes Sawdust yellow-cake, organics decompose Bokashi, EM-inoculated, wheat bran Toxic compounds broken down under coffee ground Ancient carca**es in the sphagnum lost and found Empty cartridges from a magnum tossed into Agricultural lime rock-flour and seaweed meal Bio-remediate man-made molecules Wasted Drag this baggage, hold this damage Cope the best that we can manage Want solutions, need new standards Cry our beauty from the ashes Drag this baggage, hold this damage Cope the best that we can manage Want solutions, need new standards Cry our beauty from the ashes Ashes to eggshells, wood-chips 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 Oil drum to steel pan, prisoner to Gramsci Rose from the concrete Reverse the flows of the Ponzi schemes Crip-walk 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 inner city scholars Pop-tarts to salad, teens into college Lawns into restaurants, centerfold models to artists Police abuse to catharsis Street sergeants into peace departments Thousand dollar bill to green for all markets Back-lots to blacktops and cash crops for have nots Metal into scrap shops, jobs for the cast-offs Cracks-pots into earth-ships 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 super-dome Newborns on computer phones So the smile's not Wasted Drag this baggage, hold this damage Cope the best that we can manage Want solutions, need new standards Cry our beauty from the ashes Drag this baggage, hold this damage Cope the best that we can manage Want solutions, need new standards Cry our beauty from the ashes