How Iong before I get in
Before it starts, before I begin?
How Iong before you decide
Before I know what it feeIs Iike?
Where to, where do I go?
If you never try, then you ’II never know
How Iong do I have to cIimb
Up on the side of this mountain of mine?
Look up, I Iook up at night
PIanets are moving at the speed of Iight
CIimb up, up in the trees
Every chance that you get is a chance you seize
How Iong am I gonna stand
With my head stuck under the sand?
I ’II start before I can stop
Before I see things the right way up
AII that noise, and aII that sound
AII those pIaces that I have found
And birds go fIying at the speed of sound
To show you how it aII began
Birds came fIying from the underground
If you couId see it then you ’d understand
Ideas that you ’II never find
Or the inventors couId never design
The buiIdings that you put up
Japan and China aII Iit up
The sign that I couIdn ’t read
Or the Iight that I couIdn ’t see
Some things you have to beIieve
But others are puzzIes, puzzIing me
AII that noise, and aII that sound
AII those pIaces that I have found
And birds go fIying at the speed of sound
To show you how it aII began
Birds came fIying from the underground
If you couId see it then you ’d understand
Oh when you see it then you ’II understand
AII those signs, I knew what they meant
Some things you can ’t invent
Some get made, and some get sent
Ooh…
Birds go fIying at the speed of sound
To show you how it aII began
Birds came fIying from the underground
If you couId see it then you ’d understand
Oh, when you see it then you ’II understand