First Transition - Wolf

[ti:Defend Atlantis]
[ar:Flobots]
[al:Survival Story]
[by:Jermen]
[00:00.13]Flobots - Defend Atlantis
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[00:08.10]lrc by Jermen
[00:14.23]That was as far as the tide came in 
[00:16.73]I remember the starfish and the wails of the sirens then 
[00:21.58]We replaced the tridents, embraced Poseidon 
[00:25.34]Discovered ourselves living on an island 
[00:29.25]We flow like water 'cross the lost city 
[00:31.04]Chalk prophecies and washed off graffiti 
[00:32.72]In continents, trade off for payoff 
[00:34.43]And high concepts then lost to K-Os 
[00:36.43]Many tales radiate from one nexus 
[00:37.98]Defending a dream of a new directive 
[00:39.72]A call from the deep sums up a notion 
[00:41.49]The day when the people bum-rushed the ocean 
[00:43.51]From the beaches they 
[00:44.97]Ran to meet the day after 
[00:46.89]Underneath, the waves 
[00:48.29]Won't repeat the same chapter 
[00:50.46]Knew what they had to do 
[00:54.49]That which creates life 
[00:59.04]Has power to take it right back 
[01:00.85]Fucking with the icecaps 
[01:02.90]We gotta push the tide back 
[01:04.74]We can survive, collapse if we don't get sidetracked 
[01:08.56]
[01:08.84]If we visualize living underwater hidden by prisms 
[01:11.66]Countries fall but people transition 
[01:14.57]If one for all, we live in that vision 
[01:15.35]Hundred dollar bill Origami 
[01:17.21]Balloon inflation, new world economy 
[01:18.87]
[01:19.09]We float on tsunami to global warming 
[01:20.90]We need structures to control what's coming 
[01:22.66]Corporate monopolies obsolete 
[01:24.55]The philosophy leaves us lost at sea 
[01:26.01]
[01:26.65]But from Marwar to Cochabamba 
[01:28.17]We are the warriors that won't get conquered 
[01:30.48]
[01:31.59]'Cause rising tides drown all villages 
[01:33.35]Divided fighters succumb to pillage 
[01:35.37]Rescuers whatever your latitude 
[01:37.13]It's time to pioneer a new world attitude 
[01:37.86]Put local cycles first we're Global 
[01:38.86]Islanders with nothing left to plunder 
[01:46.91]
[01:51.89]From the beaches they 
[01:52.86]Ran to meet the day after 
[01:54.92]Underneath, the waves 
[01:56.26]Won't repeat the same chapter 
[01:58.45]Knew what they had to do 
[02:04.19]
[02:05.85]For centuries 
[02:06.71]Human beings have pursued the meaning of Atlantis 
[02:09.42]Central to their teaching is that it's existence 
[02:12.11]Answers man's essential questions 
[02:14.41]Much like the feeding of the five thousand 
[02:16.53]Even if the facts aren't accurate, the story's magic is alive 
[02:20.23]Of utmost importance to convert the impertinent 
[02:23.52]Atlantis holds the answer to man's ills at their most pertinent 
[02:27.12]Aspersions easily dispersed when I certainly answer 
[02:30.66]The most diverse aversions when I firstly channel 
[02:34.38]Is this all that you hold for a warrior's role? 
[02:37.57]The ground shakes, you claim my country, not my soul 
[02:40.96]I fought, I toiled for the lost in the waves 
[02:44.54]And I will not tire, I'll die no slave 
[02:48.50]If the sea's my grave 
[02:50.07]I sleep with my city, my people, my oath, my shame, my city 
[02:55.62]Is that I cannot save my city from the waves that claim you 
[02:59.89]And curse the Gods who can't explain who to blame 
[03:03.62]At the end of the reign, heed me 
[03:06.55]The season passes Atlas, his keep's in the sediment 
[03:10.08]Failing monumentally and leaving no monuments to see 
[03:14.43]Only sea to shining sea 
[03:19.58]
[03:25.24]And survival hinged on the ascent by the humble 
[03:36.06]And the sirens wailed as the empire crumbled 
[03:40.23]With nothing to plunder, corporations drowned 
[03:42.90]Waves clapped like thunder and stormed the gates with sound 
[03:46.20]Forming a new nation now 
[03:48.85]
[03:50.30]As the icecaps melted water levels rose 
[03:53.27]We raised our hands together and made the levees hold 
[03:56.85]Heels in the sand, we revealed the depths below 
[04:01.19]The population of starfish exploded from the ocean 
[04:04.75]Survival, we unified to focus on 
[04:08.06]And the voices were many but we spoke as one 
[04:11.09]
[04:11.76]As the tale was retold, we multiplied 
[04:14.77]And swelled across the fault lines to halt the tide 
[04:18.68]We let the altars die to keep our pulse alive 
[04:22.29]
[04:22.55]And from the barren wastelands of naked trash 
[04:25.64]We stitched together, a shelter from fallen nation's flags 
[04:29.11]And chose to build a future from an ancient past 
[04:32.82]
[04:33.03]The crowns of thorns was worn, we put the Tritons down 
[04:36.35]We found new forms of anchors deep inside the ground 
[04:40.01]The world is an island now
[04:43.22]lrc by Jermen