Artist: The Flaming Lips Album: Fight Test {2003}

The test begins now


I thought I was smart, I thought I was right
I thought it better not to fight
I thought there was a virtue in always being cool
So it came time to fight 
I thought I'll just step aside
And that time would prove you wrong
And that you would be the fool

I don't know where the sunbeams end and
The starlights begin, it's all a mystery

Oh, to fight is to defend
If it's not now than tell me when
Would be the time that you would stand up and be a man
For to lose I could accept
But to surrender I just wept
And regretted this moment
Oh, that I, I was the fool

I don't know where the sunbeams end and
The starlights begin, it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides
What's right for his own life, it's all a mystery

Cos I'm a man, not a boy
And there are things you can't avoid
You have to face them when you're not prepared to face them
If I could, I would
But you're with him now, it'd do no good
I should have fought him but instead I let him
I let him take it

I don't know where the sunbeams end and
The starlights begin, it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides
What's right for his own life, it's all a mystery

I don't know where the sunbeams end and
The starlights begin, it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides
What's right for his own life, it's all a mystery

I don't know where the sunbeams end and
The starlights begin, it's all a mystery
Mystery


The test is over now

I just can't get you out of my head
Boy, your love is all I think about
I just can't get you out of my head
Boy, your love is all I think about

La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la

I just can't get you out of my head
Boy, your love is all I think about
I just can't get you out of my head
Boy, your love is all I think about

I just can't get you out of my head
Boy, your love is all I think about
I just can't get you out of my head
Boy, your love is all I think about

La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la

Your hands on the wheel, let the golden age begin 
Window down, feel the moonlight on your skin 
Desert wind cool your aching head 
The weight of the world drift away instead 

Get by and I don�t even try

I want you to know he's not coming back
Look into my eyes, he's not coming back

So, knives out, catch the mouse
Throw it down, shove it in your mouth

If you'd been a dog
They'd only want to drown you bad
Look into my eyes
It's the only way I'm gonna tell the truth

So, knives out, catch the mouse
Throw it down, shove it in your mouth

One, two, three, four

Do you realize
Do you realize
Do you realize
Do you realize
Do you realize
Do you realize
Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face
Do you realize we're floating in space
Do you realize that happiness makes you cry
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do you realize
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Spinning round
Do you realize
Spinning round
Spinning round
Do you realize

Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face
Do you realize we're floating in space
Do you realize that happiness makes you cry
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do you realize
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Spinning round
Do you realize
Spinning round
Do you realize
Spinning round

Given the hopeless nature of our times
And how it would change things
And given the circumstances of our lives
You'd done the same thing
You'd done the same thing
You'd done the same

So, if we're talking about forgiveness
Well, don't put me up above you
Cos in the strange design of conscience
We are controlled by our desires
That can never be realized
That can never be realized
That can never be real

And given the hopeless nature of our times
And how it would change things
And given the circumstances of our lives
You'd done the same thing
You'd done the same thing
You'd done the same
You'd have done the same

Let me tell you a story about a very special gift I received from a, from a man that i didn't know very well
But he brightened up the night and made it one of the great shining moments of our long tour
It goes like this

Backstage in Detroit and the room is full of smoke and apprehension
We'd been playing shows as the warm-up and the band for Beck Hansen
In walks Jack and says, "How'd ya do?"
Then he handed me this wonderful statue

And I said, "Thank you Jack White for the fiber-optic Jesus that you gave me
It shined so bright that I couldn't help believin' it would save me."
When I finally got it home
My whole neighborhood was a-glow
And I said, "Thank you Jack White for the fiber-optic Jesus that you gave me."

Here comes the
Oh, yeah

Jack and Meg are funny, they got a modern backwards librel family code
Brother and sister, playing rock and roll and doing it on the road
I bet that van begin to stink
Then I wonder, oh, what Christ would think

I said, "Thank you Jack White for the fiber-optic Jesus that you gave me
It shined so bright that I couldn't help believin' it would save me."
When I finally got it home
My whole neighborhood was a-glow
And I said, "Thank you Jack White for the fiber-optic Jesus that you gave me."


Nice one