Meaning of "Handlebars" by Flobots

BolsaDePedos

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CHupavergas!!!

omgwafflegood

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Great, now five seconds of my life has been WASTED. In fact, as soon as i realized what handlebars really were, a part of me DIED inside. Do you hear that? A part of me DIED. I can never get back that precious life wasted. NEVER. In fact, I’m wasting MORE life time right now, when i could be looking up funny pictures of cats. Which in itself, is in fact time wasting. Also, reading this message is wasting time, precious time. So what are you still sitting there for? Huh? Get off your lazy butt and go outside, or at least walk around a bit. You could be doing something useful with your life, but instead you sit around reading messages that other life-wasters write. How freekin pathetic is that? I mean, think about what your doing right now! Your STILL reading this message! I can’t believe you people would actually was your freekin time when you could be LIVING, sitting around and laughing at this message! You could be going to lolcats.com, or even icanhazcheeseburger.com, as weird as that sounds. Also, side effects may include dry mouth, headaches, blurred vision, nausea, cardiac arrest, stiffness of muscles, seizures, coma, and death. Sitting around reading retarded messages is not for everyone, tell your doctor immediately if you experience an erection for more than 3 hours. Consult your doctor before use.

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yea its a good song ay....makes you think..unlike some other crap songs.
i think the end is real powerful when hes talking about the holocaust. then it stops and talks about the riding the bike with no handlebars. its kinda gives you the inpression that the two things are not that different.

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i belive exactly wat hell razor said

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the song is talentless dribble

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I can ride a bike with infinity handlebars...

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i’d prefer to ride a bike that had handlebars.

lukearnone

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i think it means of how the lust for power leads to the ultimate destruction. first hes acheiving goals as a kid, being proud of his success, riding wit no handlbars. then he becoms a leader of a company wer he controls its ppl, making bigger goals, and reaching for mor ways to rule. then he gets into a position wer he rules all. sendng ppl to prison, abusng his power, threatning the lives of those who appose him. he had destroyed wat he onced called “home”. then it ends with “i can ride my bike wit no handlebars” becaus the cycle of greed will nevr end. its the ultimate destuction of man

isims

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well if any one knows anything about music or poetry they won’t make dumb comments.
have a look for a pearljam track called do the revolution.
youtube the video, and have a little think.
it draws the same energy same kind of message.
misguided man destroys him self.

if you can’t think deeper than a 50 cent track, go to his site

shortkid556

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If you watch the video it’s 2 people playing than like running the country. I think it’s about people who are about best friends 1 becomes kinda like a gangsta and crap and the other friend gets into politics and goes kinda the oposite direction from his friend and ends up killing him in the end.

SJ_0301

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this song is amazing. I love the way it starts off with the creepy half-whisper “I can ride my bike with no handlebars” - as if there is something more sinister to come from that seemingly innocent show of skill.

to me, that first lyric pans out to represent an arrogant and scary attitude of America towards the rest of the world.

“I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let’em all die in exasperation
Have’em all grilled leavin lacerations
Have’em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don’t like’em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command”

flobots are wondering at and scared by the power the dominant have - the power to play with lives, to save a million lives or let them die depending on our fancy, to assasinate who we want, to end the planet in a nuclear holocaust. They draw this out from such a global level (I can guide a missile by satellite) to such a seemingly innocent activity as riding a bike, at the beginning and end, and seem to ask the question whether one really should ride their bike without handlebars (have free dominion over the world) simply because he can.

gbyrmzdelaepla

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I do believe it has to do with humanity and how life has evolved with different culutures, not really cultures, but by like different customs.

stfu.

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AP

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It seems to me like it is a message of two different paths that everyone can take. In the beginning of the video when the two split up, one of the friends chooses peace (represented by the white dove) and the other chooses commerce and society. As the one the chose peace walks down the street, many “peaceful” things pass him by, kids playing jump rope, a white dove flying over head, etc. When the video jumps to the other friend, there is a black bird that circles him and he is surrounded with Material possessions and things that might “corrupt” someone. In the beginning, the friend that chose to go to the “dark” side, starts off ok, making “Antibiotics” and engines that get “64 MPG” however, he starts to use that for bad, making bombs “Splitting molecules” and making money. Slowly, bad is taking over the good and that is symbolized by the black bird overtaking the white bird and the “peaceful” friend looking at his friend in the TV and shacking his head “no”. Ultimately, the peaceful try to overcome the bad by protesting at first and then rebelling... the song starts to talk about the good and the bad clashing “I can do whatever I want” and “my cause is noble” but then it also says “I can guide a missile by satellite” and hit a target through a telescope”... Things start to get out of control and even the crowd that is supporting the government is shocked when snipers start to take down the protesters and the “bad friend” is shocked at the end when his friend is killed.

In the end of the video, I think that they are trying to say that we are free to choose our own path, and how easy it is to be overcome by greed and be “misguided” thinking that we are doing good but in fact we are not. I think that the video also symbolizes the constant struggle between bad and good and in the end... we are all the same... symbolized by the kids riding their bikes again.
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Tennant

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You guys don’t get it, there is 2 completly different reason, one, in the videos (yes there is two,) it shows the path that two friends take and how different they can be, which is saying two people growin up the same cahn be completely different, the other thing is that, a person is just a big domino set, when they accomplish something, they want to do something bigger and better, just so they can always beat their record. And its showing also how this world has changed over the years, how we started as a place, just wanting to do something extraordinary, and in the end, doing to much will destroy the world.

LadyLiz18

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The song is making a huge statement about the derivation of power. Ultimately, yes, it is talking about the government. But there’s a larger underlining meaning about the nature of power and control in general. the song starts out small, with a child’s mentality that he can ride a bike with no handlebars and such. But it leads into a progressively larger ego as he gets older. This seems all symbolic of a nation’s growth and the slow adoption of power, as the ones in power see that they can get away with even more than that. I think the song takes a dramatic turn when it says: “My cause is noble
My power is pure”
From this point on, there is no limit to what he can do. How ironic is it that right after mentioning the purity and nobility of his intention and power, he goes on to say that he could basically destroy the world, and ruin lives, and kill people (said in various different ways)?
this song is making a huge statement. Ultimate power,even if its intentions are “pure” or “noble”, is never used for the good of anyone but the person who has it. Power breeds corruption. The acquisition of power is a detrimental force to the good nature of people.
If you want to take it that step further, you could note how the lines at the end of the song reference things that can actually, and have actually happened in regards to our government. The end of this song is like the serious part of this semi-humorous work. He’s saying that this is a real concern. this “I can do anything” attitude is something we’re not far from experiencing with our governments.

LadyLiz18

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The song is making a huge statement about the derivation of power. Ultimately, yes, it is talking about the government. But there’s a larger underlining meaning about the nature of power and control in general. the song starts out small, with a child’s mentality that he can ride a bike with no handlebars and such. But it leads into a progressively larger ego as he gets older. This seems all symbolic of a nation’s growth and the slow adoption of power, as the ones in power see that they can get away with even more than that. I think the song takes a dramatic turn when it says: “My cause is noble
My power is pure”
From this point on, there is no limit to what he can do. How ironic is it that right after mentioning the purity and nobility of his intention and power, he goes on to say that he could basically destroy the world, and ruin lives, and kill people (said in various different ways)?
this song is making a huge statement. Ultimate power,even if its intentions are “pure” or “noble”, is never used for the good of anyone but the person who has it. Power breeds corruption. The acquisition of power is a detrimental force to the good nature of people.
If you want to take it that step further, you could note how the lines at the end of the song reference things that can actually, and have actually happened in regards to our government. The end of this song is like the serious part of this semi-humorous work. He’s saying that this is a real concern. this “I can do anything” attitude is something we’re not far from experiencing with our governments.

phife

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It think its about humanity in general and the two different sides of it, evil and good. Getting too powerful, etc.

asimplefan

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i got really caught up in the message of this video also and with looking stuff up one person explains how the two kids who chose different paths in life ( as shown in video of then taking different roads, each road simbilizing the path ) one with the art culture and altogather peoples person, when the other takes on the buisness life style as makign money working for big companys, politics ext. Clearly showing how both have changed from being simple kids doing simple thing to makeing a big diference in the world good or bad.

Anarchist

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this video obviously supports anarchism the start of the video shows a proletariat and a bourgeois in peace and harmony which is the political aim of anarchism everyone being equal the rest is a class war the proletariat rising up against the bourgeois. revolution to other throw capitalism and make everyone equal under a society which isn’t run by authority or god.