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This verse will probably never be seen by people who don’t care about how they treat others. But that’s okay since even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to make sense of what it was saying.

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Says that when you’re confronted with jerks who try to drag you down their level, you should listen to this verse and keep walking in the air through imaginary staircases.

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This song is in the form of a continuous freestyle, like most of Jonny 5’s rhymes of the day/week.

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References Flobots' 2012 album, The Circle in the Square. At the time this rap was released, the album’s name had only recently been announced.

Also encourages listeners not to let jerks dictate their actions and keep from stooping to their level.

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Whatever your religion is, people should follow the Golden Rule, which is to treat others the way you want to be treated. To Jonny 5, this is an evident truth that most people follow without being told.

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Some survivalists boil water in folded-up leaves, literally containing water steam with them. This technique is believed to have originated on the Indonesian island of Java.

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There have been two Popes who took the name Gelasius. Jonny 5 bends the name’s pronunciation in this stanza to use both [guh-lass-ee-us] and [guh-lay-see-us] to rhyme with the first and last lines, respectively.

No matter which Gelasius he’s referring to, the Papacy is obviously a Catholic office, so the last line refers to the pope again (although possibly also Jonny 5).

[If anyone can spot or find a reason for either Gelasius to be significant in this rap, please leave a suggestion]

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This rap was originally released on Youtube by Jonny 5 as part of his discontinued 2012 “Rhyme of the Week” series. This rhyme was released in late February, thus the references to Valentine’s day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgpOh247BAo

He tells his fans he hopes their Valentine’s Day was happy, or at the very least just another average day. He especially hopes it was average if you don’t buy into V-day, to which he essentially says “Good for you.”

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Using blood/bone/marrow imagery (physiologically, blood is produced in marrow, located in bones), Brer Rabbit makes a (blood) bone-oath to beat hope into plowshares. Flobots have used plowshares in other songs as a metaphor for the common people, as a plowshare a tool historically used by peasant farmers.

Plowshares also refers to the biblical passage promoting peace that says, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

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The Flobots revolution is in its eleventh hour, and everyone is equally important to its success, likely a reference to the Doomsday Clock which is currently set at 11:55.

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