1. How long before I get in, before it starts, before I begin?
How long before you decide, before I know what it feels like?
Where to, where do I go? If you never try, then you'll never know
How long do I have to climb up on the side of this mountain of mine?
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2. Look up, I look up at night, planets are moving at the speed of light
Climb up, up in the trees, every chance that you get is a chance you seize
How long am I gonna stand with my head stuck under the sand?
I'll start before I can stop, before I see things the right way up
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All that noise and all that sound, all those places I got found
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand
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3. Ideas that you'll never find, all the inventors could never design
The buildings that you put up, Japan and China - all lit up
The sign that I couldn't read, or a light that I couldn't see
Some things you have to believe, but others are puzzles, puzzling me
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If you could see it then you'd understand
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All those signs, I knew what they meant, some things you can invent
Some get made, and some get sent, oh!
Birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand
If you could see it then you'd understand
