Are You What You Want to Be? - Foster The People

I woke up on Champs-Élysées to the Djembe of Ghana

A fine lady from Belize said

You got the spirit of a Fela

A young one dripping make-up put her hands out to holla

I gave her what I got but couldn't handle her broken heart

The right words in the hands of dissidents with the fire

Will rip apart the marrow from the bone of the liars

Well I'm afraid of saying too much and ending a martyr

But even more so I'm afraid to face god

And say I was a coward yeah

Will all these things I wait for revelation

These things make me want to duck for cover

With all these things I wait for revolution

These things ask the biggest question to me

And it's are you what you want to be

So are you what you want to be

The war machines will put out both its hands for a dollar

It's drinking at the table with the chrome hand guerrillas

The young ones dripping make-up lift her leg up to holla

Well I told her what she's got should be protected

In the arms of love

The right things in the hands of dissidents with the fire

Will rip apart the marrow from the bone of the liars

Well I'm afraid of saying too much and ending a martyr

But even more so I'm afraid to face god

And say I was a coward

Will all these things I wait for revelation

These things make me want to duck for cover

With all these things I wait for revolution

These things ask the biggest question to me

And it's are you what you want to be

So are you what you want to be

Are you what you want to be

Are you what you want to be

Are you what you want to be

Are you what you want to be

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