Meaning of "Handlebars" by Flobots

its almost time, and when it happens a lot of you will wish you thought of it. i feel bad for those of you that havent opened your eyes. i just hope your ready.

i love the flowbots! they are so creative, just look at their name. “flowbots”, like robot but flow. that is awsome and so original! he can hold a beat with no metronome! the only verse he should have added was he can rock a mic with cock in his mouth!

This video is awsome I could listen to it over and over and over.

the best explanation I have found of it is here.....

http://learningsun.com/2009/01/flobots-handlebars-video-meaning/

I think its about hitler being able to anything being able to lead a nation with a microphone and put anyone in jail i dont like

“I can ride my bike with no handlebars”

meaning I can do anything I want with no restrictions.

“I can take apart the remote control but I can almost put it back together”

meaning I can fuck something up but i cant really fix it.

Steph684 wrote: I agree w/ Jacksane. I see it as any kid can grow up, and nothing can ever be enough. Like with the handle bars, the kid wants to achieve bigger goals. Then goes on the shoot missiles, and destroying a planet.

No thats not the meaning
The meaning is that they grew up to be completely different people
They were best friends
they split their ways
One became a tyrant
The other a freedom fighter
the meaning is that anything is possible to accomplish
but it is all your choice
you can become successful
you can become a bum
The end of the song shows them crossing paths again

well as far as the music video goes i think its talking about the extremists... Each having their own sense of justice and their own idea of how to make the world better. Even if their ideas are sincere both just destroy the harmony of the world

well as far as the music video goes i think its talking about the extremists... Each having their own sense of justice and their own idea of how to make the world better. Even if their ideas are sincere both just destroy the harmony of the world

Its about the individual’s power to choose between good and bad. The individual can create “change” either good or bad.ULTIMATELY THE POWER TO CREATE OR DESTROY !!!!!!!!!

the song is about hitler and how he thoght he cun do any thing or do any thing thats why at the end of the music video he dies just like hitler (:

The song “is about the idea that we have so much incredible potential as human beings to be destructive or to be creative," Flobots' MC Jonny 5 (a.k.a. Jamie Laurie) told MTV. “And it’s tragic to me that the appetite for military innovation is endless, but when it comes to taking on a project like ending world hunger, it’s seen as outlandish. It’s not treated with the same seriousness."

"...at the same time, I knew there were people at that moment who were being bombed by our own country. And I thought that was incredibly powerful." It is the contrast between these “little moments of creativity, these bursts of innovation," and the way these ideas are put to use “to oppress and destroy people” that the singer feels is both “beautiful and tragic at the same time."