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God Mode: On? - Shepherd - 06-12-2008
Flobots: No Handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
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're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-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 friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:
I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome
I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone
Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
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 sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a 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
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule
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'em all grilled leavin lacerations
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
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
In a holocaust
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
Given the fact that this guy can do anything, even patently absurd things, this may be a powerful reality control song. Alternately, it may allow him to make
absurd braggart claims (like the guy from the Dilbert comic strip who always one-ups everybody else) and force people to believe them.
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
- Bob Schroeck - 12-02-2009
Wow. That's a spooky song in its own way. While both effects you suggest are justified by the lyrics, I'd be inclined to go with the first, since I
feel the tone of the piece doesn't really justify the borderline-comedic sense of the second.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Shepherd - 12-02-2009
If Doug ever encouters the song and it does have the implied reality control effect, he could be very wary of using it except in extreme circumstances due to
mental side effects (otherwise it'd be so useful that he'd soon be using it practically daily). After all, the saying is that power corrupts with
absolute power corrupting absolutely, and the feel of the song is one of initial optimism with rapidly increasing megalomania. Doug may start using the song
with the best of intentions, but could well end it in the mindset of a deranged Dark Messiah. That would get the song immediately slapped under a ton of
security lockouts and only utilized during doomsday scenerios when there is no other hope for success.
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
- Bob Schroeck - 12-03-2009
<nod>
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.