Fight With Tools

gather up your platinum melt it down gather up your gold melt it down gather up your silver your bronze your aluminum melt it down melt it down melt it down

This symbolizes how the flobots would like to see society equalized, from the very rich (platinum and gold) to the very poor (bronze and aluminum) to get a prominent middle class (silver).

we call upon women we call upon children we call upon the handicapped the infirmed the weak of heart we need your courage your dedication your passion your conviction

This symbolizes how the flobots want the socially weak to stand up for themselves in order to create a more perfect and equal society. In essence, they are pleading for the weak to help themselves because society is to engrossed with the rich and powerful, the men, and perfection to help them.

we need heroes build them don't put your fist up fill them Fight with our hopes and our hearts and our hands we're the architects of our last stand

This is the flobots telling young society to stand up for what is right and just, but not in any acts of violence, similar to that of the teachings of Gandhi. They are saying that it is today's youth that have to deal with tomorrows inevitable and grievous problems, and that they have to step up to the plate.

Fight With Tools I think the meaning of this, which is used throughout the whole album, is that you have to fight with the resources you have. You dont need weapons to fight an oppressor, you need to think, use your mind, use your conviction, use the tools you have to fight for what you believe in

This song is extremely impressive. The lyrics obviously refer to the inequalities and wrongs that are so apparent in this world. The chorus basically sums it up completely. In this age we need "heroes". Heroes meaning organizations and groups that are designed to aid people in need, or designed to fight for better policies, and fairer rules. Whether it be in the government, the corporate world, or in local schooling systems, it's everyone's duty to think and question what's going on around us. And then to ACT on our beliefs and work together in order to make our world a better place.

Awesome song about the need for justice and change. Just thinking though, "rushin' like Vladimir" refers to Lenin, does it not?

the title "fight with tools" is actually a sentence taken from Ann Braden's speach in the other song. And I think that Vladimir could also be a reference to Putin (waybe it is a reference to both Lenin and Putin, but if it is, it is kind of harsh, even if Putin is some sort of despotic leader himself)

A really good song that i'm becoming addicted to and i believe the first commenter got it right about the meaning but there is a slight error. Where it says surrendor or enlist i hear a surrendor or resist. I'm pretty sure that's more like the Flobots than enlist.

expectorate?? *expect a raid, surely? That's what I always heard it as anyway..

It's clear that it does refer to Lenin, since in the liner notes lyrics it's written "Russian like Vladimir".

I have no idea if this is what Flobots intended, but when I hear the melting of metals bit reminds me of the Great Leap Forward.

This song is about Hitler, or at least a dictator that is taking over the world