{"id":3711,"date":"2008-05-06T15:42:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2008-05-06T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T21:55:27","slug":"fight-with-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/fight-with-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight with Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

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just found Flobots and their “new” album Fight With Tools<\/em>.
\nvery cool sound. reminds me of Jurassic 5 — with more of a social consciousness\/alertness. i downloaded the album from Amazon.com for $8 – always a great deal with no DRM<\/a>!<\/p>\n

here are the lyrics to the first and last songs on their album…
\n
\nThere’s A War Going On For Your Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s a war going on for your mind
\nMedia mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks
\nCover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads
\nInfecting victims with silicone shrapnel
\nWorldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers
\nNow it’s raining pornography
\nLovers take shelter
\nPost-production debutantes pursue you in nascar chariots
\nThey construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into holy water supplies<\/p>\n

There’s a war going on for your mind
\nIndustry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads
\nThey flash logos and blast ghettos
\nTheir embroidered neckties say “stop snitchin'”
\nConscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings<\/p>\n

There is a war going on for your mind
\nProfessional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to believe them
\nThe desert sky is their bluescreen
\nThey superimpose explosions
\nThey shout at you
\n“pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain
\nNor the craters beneath the draped flags
\nThose hoods are there for your protection
\nAnd meteors these days are the size of corpses<\/p>\n

There’s a war going on for your mind
\nWe are the insurgents<\/p>\n

We are winning<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rival gangsters sit down to plan an after-school program
\nA religious fanatic posts footage of an interfaith service project
\nA group of teenage boys watches a video of a father playing catch with his son
\nAn adult film star paints thumbnail portraits of elderly couples, fully clothed and smiling
\nA record executive records a demo of his apology
\nA policeman makes reverse 911 calls instructing residents to take to the streets
\nA patriot reports for duty
\nShe’s wearing an orange jumpsuit and holding a picket sign
\nShe’s ashamed of her birthplace
\nBut retreat is not an option<\/p>\n

Women and children
\nFrontline
\nLogon
\nTune in
\nStand and be counted
\nWounded
\nStationed
\nIn the belly of the vulture
\nWatch your back
\nTheres no civilians
\nWomen children
\nFrontline
\nListen
\nConsider this a distant early warning
\nThe fires imminent
\nPollution gathering dust particles
\nFunneling through smokestacks
\nAirwaves
\nBandwidth
\nDisinformation tube fed
\nCheck the label
\nDelete the virus
\nAlert the masses<\/p>\n

Butterfly wing crosswinds send black hawks toward hurricane survivors
\nRoses sprout from empty lots and sidewalk cracks
\nPacifist guerrillas move undetected through concrete jungles
\nNew forms are beginning to take shape
\nOnce-occupied minds are activating
\nPeople are waking up
\nThe insurgency is alive and well<\/p>\n

Rise of the flobots
\nPortrait of the new american insurgent
\nRattle and shake the foundation of the world order
\nAssembly line consent
\nResist
\nRefuse
\nInform
\nCreate
\nDirect loved ones to the trenches
\nSuit up
\nForge rubble into fortresses
\nPlaster
\nCloth
\nAluminum
\nBroken porcelain
\nRusted platinum
\nBurn bloodstains from decompressed diamonds
\nHammer the battlecry into braille-studded armor<\/p>\n

We are building up a new world
\nDo not sit idly by
\nDo not remain neutral
\nDo not rely on this broadcast alone
\nWe are only as strong as our signal
\nThere is a war going on for your mind
\nIf you are thinking you are winning
\nResistance is victory
\nDefeat is impossible
\nYour weapons are already in hand
\nReach within you and find the means by which to gain your freedom
\nFight with tools
\nYour fate and that of everyone you know depends on it<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

just found Flobots and their “new” album Fight With Tools. very cool sound. reminds me of Jurassic 5 — with more of a social consciousness\/alertness. i downloaded the album from Amazon.com for $8 – always a great deal with no DRM! here are the lyrics to the first and last songs on their album…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,5,17],"tags":[1048,1050,4647,1049],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics","category-take-action","tag-flobots","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-rap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-XR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}