"Handlebars" was originally released in 2005 on the band's first EP, Flobots Present...Platypus, before being re-released on Fight with Tools two years later with re-recorded vocals.

[1] The song was so popular that it was put into full rotation at the station by the end of January, attracting the attention of record companies.

And it's tragic to me that the appetite for military innovation is endless, but when it comes to taking on a project like ending world hunger, it's seen as outlandish.

And I thought that was incredibly powerful.It is the contrast between these "little moments of creativity, these bursts of innovation," and the way these ideas are put to use "to oppress and destroy people" that the singer feels is "beautiful and tragic at the same time.

"[3] The animated video for the song opens with two young friends, one wearing casual clothes and the other in a businesslike suit, seated on their bicycles on a hill looking over a city.

While describing his hobbies and skills, including things he can teach people, he walks along a cracked sidewalk and sees a chalk drawing depicting the first scene of the video, with the bicycling friends represented by stick figures.

Observing a group of young girls playing jump rope, he picks up his cellphone and sees the corporate friend's face.

The world becomes more bleak and oppressive, with security cameras and smokestacks, emblazoned with the corporate logo, spewing toxic fumes into the air.

The video ends with a flashback of the two friends crisscrossing as they ride their bicycles, again without using their handlebars, off into a bright light in the distance.

Another reference is to the Abu Ghraib tortures during the Iraq War, seen in a flashing image identical to the iconic photograph of prisoner Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh.