Foster the People - Are You What You Want To Be?
Time: 1:00
Well, I gave her what I got but couldn't handle her broken heart
The right words in the hands of dissidents with the fire
Yeah, will rip apart the marrow from the bone of the liars

protester; a person who dissents from some established policy
Heard in 31 songs (27M+ combined views) — most famously in "Are You What You Want To Be?" by Foster the People.
Updated August 4, 2026
Time: 1:00
Well, I gave her what I got but couldn't handle her broken heart
The right words in the hands of dissidents with the fire
Yeah, will rip apart the marrow from the bone of the liars

Time: 0:06
You have the power to believe
Another dissident
Take back your evidence

Time: 1:18
The geeks, the savages
Rogues, rebels, dissident devils
Artists, martyrs, infidels

Time: 0:54
Military industrial.
Exterminating the dissident voice.
A military nation.

Time: 0:34
Your necessary silhouette
Unknown, join the dissi-dissi-dissidents
Got carried away

Time: 0:55
When she couldn't hold, oh, she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest path

Time: 1:14
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Memories dissident
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Time: 0:57
Invasion is imminent
Keeping down the dissidents
Killing is his business

Time: 0:30
By my own volition, isolated and set free
The symptom of your violence and the dissident in me
Untrusting of the promise of a figurehead to lead

Time: 0:31
And it's safe to say there is no other way
With lawless arrogance and savage dissidents
Public display of dismemberment

Time: 2:34
Déconseillé aux gens dits sensibles
Pourvu que tu peux ser-dan sur mon son ou celui des dissidents
Pas d'ici, enfant du ciment, pas besoin de te faire un dessin

Time: 1:04
My wrath, I'll just live my own life
So violent, so dissident, no more requiem, so I lament
So simple, to revere, to respect, down and left for dead

Time: 2:24
You lost your taste for danger
(I used to be a dissident citizen)
(I used to be a dissident citizen)

Time: 2:25
And while some used missionaries and donations to off set this abuse, other countries and companies were blatant with their crimes, using war, disease and sanctions that killed millions, they supported corrupt governments that were almost like the old slave masters in their oppression of the people, because their loyalty was to those who enable them, enstored them and kept them in power, they became the bastard children of American industry, kleptocracy, government's of thievery, they protected the corporations and went to war against their own people to preserve those profits
The puppet rulers were given billions of US tax dollars to fund civil wars, right wing death squads, execute political dissidents, sympathetic clergy and even overthrow democratically elected governments and so the age of revolution began again, they painted it as godless terrorist versus the free world and the market
But the free market has never been free, because the market does not regulate itself, it is manipulated like a puppet and it survives because of its image, destroy the image and the enemy will die

Time: 3:11
Nothing to prevent us from killing foreign extremists
Violent dissidents we butcher and incinerate
Lowest on the food chain, they deserve to be slaughtered

Time: 1:24
Plantin' dread inside the heart
Dissidents come forth, ascendin' from suburbia
Toxicity will never be the end nor the start

Time: 4:44
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Wild efforts to gag dissidents
Will ever fail in the end

Time: 1:58
O the savages, the ravagers of the pleading, standing there bleeding
Tears of the innocent - turned into mammalian dissidents
We the people -- we the terrible

Time: 3:11
Un beau jour c'est certain tu t'envoleras
Lisa, accrochée aux ailes des oiseaux dissidents

Time: 0:15
Opaque the dissident establishment
That we all suffer

Time: 0:32
Burn!
Won't you come burning, all the dissident ones?
Come and walk the line, and you will burn with me

Time: 0:59
Nothing's shining like I feel like it should
And the birds sing dissident tunes
Singing the sadness of the afternoon

Time: 1:42
Dip the fuse in the kerosene
I too become a dissident
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Time: 0:59
Eyes of the god, sombering souls
Dark is the cape, a dissident's face
Holy the war, laying in wait

Time: 0:01
And you thought you'd be a hero
And not a dissident
War Crime!

Time: 1:05
To control all the risk
Searching for dissidents
Hyper assassins

Time: 0:49
Dissonant cadence
Free political dissidents from they cages
But leave 'em open

Time: 0:52
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Argumental dissidents
A lesson loses meaning

Time: 1:46
One out of one million residents
Being dissident, who ain't kissin' it?
The politics of chains and whips

Time: 1:05
Radiation roaches got you on the run
Soldiers for the DNA, dissidents are put away
Dragged off in the dead of night, disappear without a sight

Time: 1:17
L'entendez-vous?
Entendez-vous les dissidents, les sirènes de la vanité
Les visages au loin vont bientôt s'effacer
