Defend Atlantis Songtext
von Flobots

That was as far as the tide came in
I remember the starfish and the wails of the sirens then
We replaced the tridents, embraced Poseidon
And discovered ourselves living on an island

We flow like water across the lost city
Chalk prophecies and washed off graffiti
In continents
Trade off for payoff
And high concepts then lost to chaos
Many tales radiate from one nexus
Defending a dream of a new directive
A call from the deep sums up a notion
The day when the people bum rushed the ocean

From the beaches they ran to meet the day after
Underneath the waves won′t repeat the same chapter
Knew what they had to do


That which creates life has power to take it right back
Fucking with the icecaps
We've gotta push the tide back
We can survive collapse if we don′t get sidetracked
If we visualize living underwater hidden by prisms
Countries fall but people transition if one for all we live in that vision
Hundred dollar bill origami
Balloon inflation new world economy
We float on tsunami to global warming
We need structures to control what's coming
Corporate monopolies obsolete
The philosophy leaves us lost at sea
But from Marwar to Cochabamba
We are the warriors that won't get conquered
′Cause rising tides drown all villages
Divided fighters succumb to pillage
Rescuers whatever your latitude
It′s time to pioneer a new world attitude
Put local cycles first we're Global Islanders with nothing left to plunder

From the beaches they ran to meet the day after
Underneath the waves won′t repeat the same chapter
Knew what they had to do

For centuries
Human beings have pursued the meaning of Atlantis
Central to their teaching that it's existence
Answers man′s essential questions
Much like the feeding of the five thousand
Even if the facts aren't accurate

The story′s magic is alive
Of untmost importance to convert the impertinent
Atlantis holds the answer to man's ills at their most pertinent
Aspersions easily dispersed when I certainly answer

The most diverse aversions when I first channel --
Is that all you hold for a warriors roll
The ground shakes, you claim my country, not my soul
I fought, I toiled for the lost in the waves


And i will not tire, I'll die no slave
If the sea′s my grave
I sleep with my city, my people, my oath
My shame, my city
Is that I cannot save my city from the waves that claim you
And curse the Gods who can′t explain who to blame
At the end of the reign, heed me
The season passes Atlas, his keeps in the sediment
Failing monumentally and leaving no monuments to see
Only sea to shining sea
And survival hinged on the ascent by the humble
And the sirens wailed as the empire crumbled
With nothing to plunder, corporations drowned
Waves clapped like thunder and stormed the gates with sound
Forming a new nation now
As the icecaps melted water levels rose
We raised our hands together and made the levees hold
Heels in the sand, we revealed the depths below
The population of starfish exploded from the ocean
Survival, we unified to focus on
And the voices were many but we spoke as one

As the tale was retold, we multiplied
And swelled across the fault lines to halt the tide
We let the alters die to keep our pulse alive
And from the barren wastelands of naked trash
We stitched together, a shelter from fallen nation's flags
And chose to build a future from an ancient′s past
The crowns of thorns was worn, we put the Tritons down
We found new forms of anchors deep inside the ground
The world is and island now
The world is an island now