The World Is Yours.

The 2007 song No Handlebars by Flobots have showed the view of what most Americans feels about the society. The song lyrics tells of what people could do if there want to if there felt to. The song show both the positive and negative side in which being able to do whatever there want. Positive aspects in the song includes "Look at me Look at me Just called to say that it's good to be ALIVE In such a small world I'm 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 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 Cuz I can lead a nation with a microphone With a microphone With a microphone And I can split the atom of a molecule Of a molecule". This shows the good side like creating antibiotics to heal sickness, save the enviroment and many other things. On the other this also talks about the bad that could be done with this power. "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 healed of their 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 Because 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". Talking about the power to start holocaust, killing and stealing someone identity. This are all things that government need to help protect against. This song points other the fact that one man could have all this power and do whatever he want ever start a holocaust. This song brings up the idea of a the skys the limit but what if the someone wants to do bad what then is the government going to do.

Cop Killer.

I got my black shirt on.I got my black gloves on.I got my ski mask on.This shit's been too long.I got my twelve gauge sawed off.I got my headlights turned off.I'm 'bout to bust some shots off.I'm 'bout to dust some cops off.Cop killer, better you than me.Cop killer, f**k police brutality!Cop killer, I know your family's grievin'(f**k 'em)Cop killer, but tonight we get even.I got my brain on hype. Tonight'll be your night.I got this long-assed knife,and your neck looks just right.My adrenaline's pumpin'.I got my stereo bumpin'.I'm 'bout to kill me somethin'A pig stopped me for nuthin'!Cop killer, better you than me.Cop killer, f**k police brutality!Cop killer, I know your mama's grievin'(f**k her)Cop killer, but tonight we get even.Die, die, die pig, die!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police yeah!Cop killer, better you than me.I'm a Cop killer, f**k police brutality!Cop killer, I know your family's grievin'(f**k 'em)Cop killer, but tonight we get even.F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police!F**k the police, break it down.F**k the police, yeah.F**k the police, for Darryl Gates.F**k the police, for Rodney King.F**k the police, for my dead homies.F**k the police, for your freedom.F**k the police, don't be a pussy.F**k the police, have some muthaf**kin' courage.F**k the police, sing along.Cop killer!Cop killer!Cop killer!Cop killer!Cop killer, what you're gonna be when you grown up?Cop killer, good choice.Cop killer!I'm a muthaf**kin' cop killer!Cop killer, better you than me.Cop killer, f**k police brutality!Cop killer, I know your mama's grievin'(f**k her)Cop killer, but tonight we get even! Lyrics for Cop Killer by Ice-T of the Body Count album.
This song brings in the question of where the 1st Amendment right, the right of freedom of speech comes in to question due to the explicit lyric. Government had taken an interest in the song when in release in 1992. This song controversy have reach up to the highest branches in government. The many comments made by the president at the time Goerge Bush and people like Dennis R. Martin. Vice President at the time Dan Quayle claim that Cop Killer was "obscene". "The misuse of the First Amendment is graphically illustrated in Time-Warner's attempt to insert into the mainstream culture the vile and dangerous lyrics of the Ice-T song entitled Cop Killer. The Body Count album containing Cop Killer was shipped throughout the United States in miniature body bags. Only days before distribution of the album was voluntarily suspended, Time-Warner flooded the record market with a half million copies. The Cop Killer song has been implicated in at least two shooting incidents and has inflamed racial tenions in cities across the country. Those who work closely with the families and friends of slain officers volunteering for the American Police Hall of Fame and Museum, are outraged by the message of Cop Killer. It is an affront to the officers—144 in 1992 alone—who have been killed in the line of duty while upholding the laws of our society and protecting all its citizens" was said by Dennis R. Martin the former president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. This song had argue the way the cops had handle way how there deal with crime. The issue of rebelling against the cop and police brutality was one of the most controvery issus in music history.

Idiots

Musicians have used there music to send a there message and influence many people though there words. One common views that many musicians have sent out to the fans and people how listens there music. They share the views on politics and the society around them both good and bad. This has been going on since the 60’s till this day. One of the most recent songs to come out and share the view that rebellion against the government and today’s society would be American Idiot by the band Green Day. Here are the lyrics to the song.
“Don't want to be an American idiot.Don't want a nation under the new mediaAnd can you hear the sound of hysteria?The subliminal mind fuck America.Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Where everything isn't meant to be okay.Television dreams of tomorrow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow.For that's enough to argue.Well maybe I'm the faggot America.I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.Now everybody do the propaganda.And sing along to the age of paranoia.” The lyrics claiming that America is run by the media, and we as a society is made to believe what ever the media want you to believe in. "They turn us into idiots with no individuality. In this song, the narrator is saying that he doesn't want his nation to be turned into complete idiots, he doesn't want his country to be led by a redneck president ("I'm not a part of a redneck agenda"), doesn't want people to be convinced that it's right to hate someone because of their sexual preferences ("maybe I'm the faggot America"), doesn't want the nation to be isolated and detested because of stupid decisions that the government makes ("Welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the alienation")." Form http://www.geekstinkbreath.net/greenday/song-meanings/american-idiot/