Are You What You Want to Be?

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

And 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

So are you what you want to be

Are you what you want to be

So are you what you want to be

Are you what you want to be