No Handlebars Definition

I know this won't make good reading, but I want to do it anyway.



As you can see, this is the song "Handlebars" by the Flobots. It came out a few years ago, but I've been meaning to do this for a while.

To me, this song is a story of how two friends part ways and live in different conditions. Some time later, they call each other.

For the purpose of this blog post, peaceful friend will be called Bob, and the leader guy Jim. Bob calls Jim telling him how great and peaceful his life is, and how he can be part of the community and have a fun time.

Jim then tells Bob about how profitable his life his, how he has presented products and ideas and moved up through the world to become a big businessman. Bob isn't too happy about this.

Later on, Bob sees Jim on the TV, dictating as a politician. He appears to be talking about how he can split an atom and how this is the way forward. He puts video camera everywhere and, in the video, knocks down the walls of peace.

This makes Bob angry, so he and his community band together to stop his old friend, now mad with power. They march through the city, and...

I'm not quite sure what happens at the end. Either Jim orders his men to shoot and sees Bob leading them just afterwards, or he sees Bob leading them, tells his men NOT to shoot but they disobey him.

Anyways, I think this song is meant to represent how life is turning out to be for some people. Well, with Barack Obama it looks like this will be averted... but in a way it's already happened.

For this reason I love this song.
And it sounds good too!