Artist: The Flaming Lips Album: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots {2002}

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

Unit three thousand twenty one is warming
Makes a humming sound
When its circuits duplicate emotions
And a sense of coldness detaches
As it tries to comfort your sadness

One more robot learns to be
Something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does
Makes it seem like it can love
Cos it's hard to say what's real
When you know the way you feel
Is it wrong to think it's love
When it tries the way it does

Feeling a synthetic kind of love
Dreaming a sympathetic wish
As the lights blink faster and brighter

One more robot learns to be
Something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does
Makes it seem like it can love
Cos it's hard to say what's real
When you know the way you feel
Is it wrong to think it's love
When it tries the way it does

Her name is Yoshimi, she's a black belt in karate
Working for the city, she has to discipline her body
Cos she knows that it's demanding to defeat those evil machines
I know she can beat them

Oh, Yoshimi - they don't believe me
But you won't let those robots eat me
Yoshimi - they don't believe me
But you won't let those robots defeat me

Those evil natured robots, they're programmed to destroy us
She's gotta be strong to fight them, so she's taking lots of vitamins
Cos she knows that it'd be tragic if those evil robots win
I know she can beat them

Oh, Yoshimi - they don't believe me
But you won't let those robots defeat me
Yoshimi - they don't believe me
But you won't let those robots eat me, Yoshimi

Cos she knows that it'd be tragic if those evil robots win, yeah
I know she can beat them

Oh, Yoshimi - they don't believe me
But you won't let those robots defeat me
Yoshimi - they don't believe me
But you won't let those robots defeat me
Yoshimi - they don't believe me
But you won't let those robots eat me
Yoshimi - they don't believe me
But you won't let those robots eat me, Yoshimi

INSTRUMENTAL

In the morning I'd awake and I couldn't remember
What is love and what is hate, the calculations error
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
What is love and what is hate
And why does it matter
Is to love just a waste
And how can it matter
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

As the dawn began to break, I had to surrender
The universe will have its way, too powerful to master
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
What is love and what is hate
And why does it matter
Is to love just a waste
But how can it matter
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

I was waiting on a moment
But the moment never came
All the billion other moments
Were just slipping all away
I must have been tripping - were just slipping all away
Just ego tripping

I was wanting you to love me
But your love it never came
All the other love around me
Was just wasting all away
I must have been tripping - was just wasting all away
Just ego tripping - was just wasting all away
I must have been tripping

I was waiting on a moment
But the moment never came - must have been tripping
But the moment never came - just ego tripping
But the moment never came - must have been tripping
But the moment never came - just ego tripping
But the moment never came - must have been tripping
But the moment never came
But the moment never came
But the moment never came

I had forgiven you for tricking me again
But I have been tricked again into forgiving you
What is this - are you some kind of hypnotist
Waving your powers around
The sun eclipse behind the cloud

I thought I recognized your face amongst all of those strangers
But I am the stranger now amongst all of the recognized
What is this - are you some kind of hypnotist
Waving your powers around
The sun eclipse behind the cloud
The sun eclipse behind the cloud

It's summertime
And I can understand if you still feel sad
It's summertime
And though it's hard to see its true possibilities

When you look inside all you'll see
When you look inside
All you'll see is a self-reflected inner sadness
Look outside
I know that you'll recognize it's summertime
Look outside
I know that you'll recognize it's summertime

One, two, three, four


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

Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face
Do you realize

As logic stands you couldn't meet a man who's from the future
But logic broke as he appeared he spoke about the future
"We're not gonna make it,"
He explained how the end will come
You and me were never meant to be part of the future
All we have is now
All we've ever had is now
All we have is now
All we've ever had is now

I noticed that he had a watch and hat that looked familiar
He was me from a dimension torn free of the future
"We're not gonna make it,"
He explained how the end will come
You and me were never meant to be part of the future
All we have is now
All we've ever had is now
All we have is now
All we've ever have was now

All we have is now

INSTRUMENTAL