What is handlebars about

I hope this helps someone. I think it's about how the world and economy can control everything. How they are advancing everything but yet they still can't ride a bike with no handle bars. This is showin that no matter how advanced everything is you go back down to basics. In an interview I did with Jonny 5 for my school's magazine, he told me this was written in response to the Bush Administration's lack of action to hurricane Katrina. My interpretation is that starting out, there are 2 friends.

They both know how to ride a bike without using handlebars. When they grow up, the first one chooses peace, hence the dove. He talks about how he lives, as a free person who enjoys his life. The other friend chooses the more business way of life.

He talks about all of the possibilities and eventually gets corrupted by power when he is the government. He talks about what he is doing is good, but he is too blind too see that his power may not be good. Eventually, the 1st person rebels against the government and starts a war. When the rebels fight, 1st gets killed. At the end, he remembers the time when they were friends, and all they cared about was who could ride the bike better without handlebars.

I thought this song was simply talking about the human race. The amount of achievements humanity has accomplished is astounding and I thought this song was simply saying you can do anything. I see it as, the same as most of the others. Just in a simpler form, Two friends, one chooses power other chooses peace.

One becomes corrupt and the other At first, you are proud and surprised that you have accomplished riding your bike with no handlebars. It's innocent and exciting! You tell and show everyone your new accomplishment.

Then it all goes bad real fast from there. The seed that will grow into a giant Megalomaniac has now been planted. Know yourself and seek self improvement. I think there could be a significance with riding a bike with no handlebars because that is what you use to steer yourself. The end of the video reminds me on the book "" regarding to the cctv cameras and the presidents face posted everywhere. My intepretaion going by the video that there are two best friends but split and go theri seperate ways.

One goes into buissness and becomes extremly sucsessful. Eventually the sucsessful buissness friend becomes presadent but the other friend doesnt agree with his ideas and polocies so leads a rebelion against the goverment. So two people who were best friends are now fighting against eachother just because they went their differnt ways. In the end the friend who is leading the rebion is killed.

Im only 13 so please excuse the spelling and grama mistakes. I think this song is about two friends, the blonde one starts out pure but later in the song he gets head strong and power-hungry.

The guy with brown hair is pure and free natured through out the whole song. In the begining the two friends are riding their bikes with no hadlebars and are just having fun, soon they hit a fork in the road and the blonde guy goes down the path with the C goverment, buisness, stuff like that and the other guy goes down a path with a dove peace,free, charity.

During the first verse the brown haired guy is "talking". He's saying how he can do anything if he sets his mind to it it even says it later in the verse but he uses this power for good. During the second verse the blonde guy is "talking". At the end off this verse he gets more head strong. And when you see the chart behind him and the lines are blood it means they will do anything for power and money. During the third verse the bolnde guy become president or something and the peace guy gathers peoplem to rebell against some of his changes.

Even though the buisness people are out numbered, lots of rebellions die because off this. During this verse the blonde buy gets so power hungry he doesn't care what happens as long as he is in charge, because the song says smething about saving everyone or killing them by assasination. In the end of this verse the blonde guy's friend is killed and he is striken with greif, and is terrified. I think the end is a flash back the blonde guy is having.

So basically I think this song is about not letting power getting to your head, and if you do you'll pay the highest possible price, even though you won't relize you've gone to far untill something terrible happens. Also that is this continues it could be like the third verse everyday if we don't do somehting about it. If you don't agree with me just leave me alone, I honestly love this song and wanted to share my feelings about this!

I wrote the last comment. If you look you can see the capitol building twice. Hey, you got a good comment but the lyrics are " You said it exactly right. But not really Flobots being scared, but them showing the world of how people who are already powerful, try to become even MORE powerful. MusicJockey on July 24, I think the song has a number of different meanings.

On the one hand, you could take it as them saying that it's easy to become a monster without even realizing. It starts out with simple, innocent things that one would relate to childhood. Then it gets more grown up, talking about adulthood, and the road to success. Then it completely changes and talks about power, and the abuse of it.

It's sort of showing a person changing, how they started out as a regular kid and grew to become a dangerous world power. On the other hand, it could be making a statement about certain people, like the president, or America in general, and how we've abused our power. The song has a lot of layers to it. It could be taken in any number of ways.

That's what's so great about it! It's about innocence, human innovation and the power, responsibility and corruption that can stem from it. The start is about what the two people can innocently accomplish and the potential they have. But as their abilities grow one of them seeks more power to cause good. They grow in power and responsibilities and they have the power to cause great good. But as they become more technologically advanced so does their power to cause good OR bad and with that the danger and responsibility.

In the end, they get overcome by power and despite their good intentions greed starts to control everything. The other person was more humble and never sought the power it takes to make such changes. He tries to save the world and stand up at the end but by then the system is too powerful. It's about the responsibilities and great power we have as a race and the whole story is a metaphor for humanity itself. SongMeaningsDotCom on September 16, General Comment I think this song has a lot to do with growth.

It seems to me that in the beginning, they speak a lot of things you would be very proud of as a kid. Later, in the next verse it resembles the average young american, supporting themselves with their jobs. Inventing, opening, franchising, etc.

When it says, "I can change the world with a microphone" is representing the stage of wanting to protest. And all they have is a microphone. Near the end of the song, the song really twists. The mood completely flips. It is like he is getting a pleasure out of death. Overall I feel this song is showing how the gaining of age and power will lead to the ultimate destruction. The powers he has are abused greatly.

Especially the "making anybody go to prison. And this abuse of power will never end. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your visual vocabulary with our question challenge! Love words? Need even more definitions? Just between us: it's complicated. Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'? How 'literally' can mean "figuratively". Literally How to use a word that literally drives some pe Is Singular 'They' a Better Choice?