Flobots - Whip$ and Chain$ [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1: Brer Rabbit]
Strange fruit I roll up in my Ford Taurus
Emissions won't pass like Gandalf at Moria
Way out of order, should be pulled over
Pull out garage and lost side view mirror

Credit card final fantasy breaks the limit
I just paid just brakes to break my lemon
Didn't make enough juice for my pessimism
So I’m not for giving ’till my debt's forgiven

So I skim off the top, convertible roofs
Thinking spanish green sounds like the truth
Got it on lock jaw to the tip of the tooth
Way I floss no dental insurance to boot

But my chain hangs low, I could double dutch
Keep my eyes to the floor so don’t stumble much
I shine bright at night from all the carrots
‘Cause it’s not who you are but who you wear, this day

Stay sporting lashes from the old massa’s
Clasps on the neck says “Property of the masses”
And whats under the chassis
The block is gentrified while the governor’s classic

Don’t know who the boss is do I hold the power
Or am I powered like horses
Whip is blowin’ out my back like I’m exhausted
Pipes blowin’ more fire than the pentecost

[Hook]
Who killed Jdimytai Damour?
Why and what’s the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either/or?
Who shows us what we knead?
Who’s got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us it’s ingrained?
We who hold these whips and chains

If there’s no lock who needs a key?
When did we stop being free?

[Verse 2: Jonny 5]
I see things vis a vis a sea change
Full fathom five people became
Remains deep beneath chains
We pay into easing these pains
‘Cause the history is difficult
Wish the results could be flipped like reciprocals
Allow me to renumerate aloud the typical rude awakenings of the drowsy consumer base
Bass boom will make the crowd sing and synchronize with the views that they’re espousing
Syncopate to the stupid take a thousand
Sinning like every excuse they make is valid
Simon Williams I Wonder Man
Just how did our oil get under their sand?
And how did our homes get onto their land?
And how did our foes get guns in their hands?
Conflict diamonds
Child labor tennis shoes
Genocide energy
Gentrified gin and juice
Slave trade banks
Rape-based internet movies
What’s a straight-laced simpleton to do?
With a strange fate twist and fame
Except talk shit and name off a list of gains
But do you realize I’d find my lips in flames
If I ever took pride in these whips and chains

[Hook]
Who killed Jdimytai Damour?
Why and what’s the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either/or?
Who shows us what we knead?
Who’s got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us it’s ingrained?
We who hold these whips and chains

[Verse 3: Jonny 5]
Who holds these
Who holds these
Who holds these traps and circuses
We want it
They own it
So we’re going half-berserk for it
Well Let’s take it
Let’s take it
Let’s take it back before cassettes
Pepsi cans and packs of percocet
1910 all the factory workers said
Yes we can demand a weekend
If we can get the man to weaken
So if you’re ready than send a beacon
To be continued and to begin
We can’t be content to steep in the anesthesia
Invisible hands of phantoms depend on
Ya fantasies have been poisoned
But we’ve got the panacea!

[Hook]
Who killed Jdimytai Damour?
Why and what’s the reason for?
Who starts homicidal wars?
Rich man, poor man, either/or?
Who shows us what we knead?
Who’s got the bread for the luxuries?
Who told us it’s ingrained?
We who hold these whips and chains