Handlebars (Original Version)

By Flobots

On Flobots Present... Platypus

Released on November 11, 2005

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[Intro]

I can ride my bike with no handlebars

No handlebars, no handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars

No handlebars, no handlebars


[Verse One]

Look at me, look at me

Hands in the air like it's good to be

Alive, and I'm a famous rapper

Even when the paths are all crooked-y

I can show you how to dos-si-do

I can show you how to scratch a record

I can take apart the remote control

And I can almost put it back together

I can tie a knot in a cherry stem

I can tell you about Leif Ericson

I know all the words to "De Colores"

And I'm proud to be an American

Me and my friends saw a platypus

Me and my friend made a comic book

And guess how long it took

I can do anything that I want, cause look


[Hook One]

I can keep rhythm with no metronome

No metronome, no metronome

And I can see your face on the telephone

On the telephone, on the telephone


[Verse Two]

Look at me, look at me

Just called to say that it's good to be

Alive, in such a small world

I'm all curled up with a book to read

I can make money, open up a thrift store

I can make a living off a magazine

I can design an engine

64 miles to a gallon of gasoline

I can make new antibiotics

I can make computers survive aquatic conditions

I know how to run the business

And I can make YOU wanna buy a product

Movers, shakers, and producers

Me and my friends understand the future

I see the strings that control the systems

I can do anything with no assistance, cause


[Hook Two]

I can lead a nation with a microphone

With a microphone, with a microphone

And I can split the atoms of a molecule

Of a molecule, of a molecule

{​​*musical trumpet interlude*}​​


[Verse Three]

Look at me, look at me

Driving and I won't stop!

And it feels so good

To be alive and on top!

My reach is global, my tower secure

My cause is noble, my power is pure

I can hand out a million vaccinations

Or let 'em all die in exasperation

Have all healed from their lacerations

Or 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 because


[Hook Three]

I can guide a missile by satellite

By satellite, by satellite

And I can hit a target through a telescope

Through a telescope, through a telescope

And I can end the planet in a holocaust

In a holocaust, in a holocaust

In a holocaust, in a holocaust, in a holocaust!


[Outro]

I can ride my bike with no handlebars

No handlebars, no handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars

No handlebars, no handlebars