Lucithegreat on June 13, General Comment The way I see it, this song can be interpreted in many different ways. My personal favorite is a young boy, who experiences a feeling of power, of having something he can do that nobody else can. This progresses, as he gains more "power" and begins to get more advanced and more unstable as the song progresses, going from simply enjoying being able to ride a bike with no handlebars, to deciding on a whim who to let live I can hand out a million vaccinations.
Or let 'em all die in exasperation. Have 'em all healed from their lacerations. Have 'em all killed by assassination , just because he can. This theory shows that too much power gained can, and probably will, cause corruption.
I really like how this song makes you think, guess, and wonder as to its meaning, leading to discussions like this, about power, and the evolution from a simple show-off attitude, to a dangerous, power-mad person. However, I do not agree with the theory that this song is about president bush specificly, or exclusively. Ket on March 14, Link. No Replies Log in to reply. General Comment First section is the innocence of growing up, the worthless knowledge you find fascinate, most cases it will not prove useful in your life.
Second section is the good that you can do in life with a little bit of knowledge the endless potential of what once would of seemed to be an impossible task. Third section is the bad that arises from the knowledge humans gain, rather than go toward good we instead use it for destruction and killing.
The handlebars represent how people often recklessly use the knowledge they have gained in life, rather than using common sense. As in sure you can ride with no handlebars but should you? Lligeret on January 26, Link. General Comment Opinion is great, but here are the word from the artists themselves regarding what this song is about: Jamie Laurie stated that the song "is about the idea that we have so much incredible potential as human beings to be destructive or to be creative.
It's not treated with the same seriousness. And I thought that was incredibly powerful. I think the song's basically about how easily amazing leaders can turn 'evil' through power and arrogance. Fawn on April 19, Link. Its almost like the holocaust and Hitler's rein of power how he started to show the Germans that he was great then he took control and made the mass killing of all the Jews possible Symrist on January 18, Song Meaning This song relates to a theme reoccuring througout literature, as evidenced by its inclusion in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The theme is the idea that "ambition becomes the demise of its holder. This is evidenced by this rise of Nazi regime led by Adolph Hitler.
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Contact: Kyle Harris. Don't Miss Out. Join Today. Get promoted. Powered by OnRad. Think you know music? Test your MusicIQ here! In Lyrics. By Artist. By Album. Listen online. About Handlebars "Handlebars" is a song by Flobots. Year: 63 Views. Discuss the Handlebars Lyrics with the community: 0 Comments. Notify me of new comments via email. I never get tired of listening to it! I think it starts with all the simple things that anyone can do then the singer relizes what he can do and never thought he could!
Like when he says "I can ride my bike with no handlebars" and then later he says "I can end the planet in a holocaust" that's when he starts to realize what he is capable of doing even if its not really smart.
I can't listen to this song for hours, I love it, not only for the beat but I love the deeper meaning in the song as well as the video, it show how you can be so close with someone and even when you do part from each other there is no telling what will become of your friendship as well as each other, also I think that this some shows how the government is so corrupt that it can change people so dirastically and make them forget about anything that they one thought was important in their life, I mean its not like he had to do all the things that he did but as you can see in the video the goverment agrees to everything that he does and he has people who back him up on it therefore he feels like what he's doing is good.
However, when you come to the end you see that the second he notices his friend he stops and stares in complete shock and as his friend is shot and killed he goes back to the happier times when he was out of the governments hands and could do so much greater things:-] but that's just me. How they can do sooo much to help, but end up with problems. How they have accomplished many victories, and will keep going!
How they can easily destroy many things, not just americans, but people in general! How the world is at it's peak and will end up being lost in the fog of all the pollution, and I'm not saying only chemicals. The new generations of this world are gonna become corrupt if certain things don't change. Oh how the innocent children of this world can be free of handle bars in the future. Don't take it in offense. Its about what an American can do and what an American can be.
An American can anything, but they chose not to destroy the world, Americans chose to help the world. Even with an unlimited arsenal of weapons and missiles, we refrain from annihalating a country, instead the you. Feeds half the world literally. The song says "I --can-- lead the world into holocaust:" not "I lead the world into holocaust. I believe this song starts off in an infantile state, such as that of being a child. Riding a bike with no handlebars, showing that you can do to do-si-do, that you know songs from school.
Soon there after you come into the power stage, the splitting of an atom creating a nuclear effect and inducing a powerful feeling. Then you go through the lust for power, doing whatever you want.
Giving vaccinations or not, assasinations, sending people to jail for no reason, being able to guide bombs and pick people off with telescopes. Then the world ends in holocaust, thus indicating our regression back to the infantile state. Humanity starts anew because of the ending of the world.
I could c if they were talkin about runnin around in public naked but theyre not so yahh. Peace, love, harmony and rocknroll! Gooo flobots!
Ill be with you till the end guys! I think that its about growing and learning you start out small riding the bike with o handlebars then you have your friends and you go to school and learn more and things about the world and splitting the atom of A molecule.
Then when you have your education or whatever you start to realize how business works and money and start to think about the future. Then everyone has their moment where they feel the most alive and on top. His alive and on top was more than most people's. He feels that he can do whatever he wants and so powerful only to find that when you get old you are back where you started. Just simple and not as important. Its sad bt that's how life is. It's talkin' about how prideful we are as people about the things we accomplish.
It's always from the beginning of time been a competition of who's better. Who has more control. And the song explains the intensity all of this has gotten to. No longer is it a friendly game of who has what.
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