Defend Atlantis Lyrics - Survival Story - 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 

Discovered ourselves living on an island 

We flow like water 'cross the lost city 

Chalk prophecies and washed off graffiti 

In continents, trade off for payoff 

And high concepts then lost to K-Os 

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 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 is 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 utmost 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 firstly channel 

Is this all that you hold for a warrior's role? 

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 keep's 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 altars 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 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 an island now 

The world is an island now