this has become one of my favourite songs ever...

[gwyndolaeth]

Flaming Lips - Fight Test


THE TEST BEGINS - NOW (spoken)
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 when it came time to fight,
I thought I'll just step aside and that
the time would prove you wrong...
and that you would be the fool...

I don't know
where the sun beams end,
and the starlight begins --
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 sun beams end,
and the starlight begins --
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...

Cause 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...

I don't know
where the sun beams end,
and the starlight begins --
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...

THE TEST IS OVER - NOW (spoken)