The Flaming Lips Album

If you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch
Would you do it?
If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich
Would you do it?
If you could watch everybody work while you just lay on your back
Would you do it?
If you could take all the love without giving any back
Would you do it?
And so we cannot know ourselves or what we'd really do...

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?

If you could make your own money and give it to everybody
Would you do it?
If you knew all the answers and could give it to the masses
Would you do it?
No no no no no no, are you crazy?
It's a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want...
Because you cannot know yourself or what you'd really do...

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?

You think you're so radical
I think you oughta stop
(Say what)
But you're going international
They're gonna call the cops
(No, No, No)
You're turning into a poor man's Donald Trump
I know those circumstances make you wanna jump
Oh no

You think you're radical
but you're not so radical
in fact you're fanatical
Fanatical
(X2)

I'll tell you right now
(right now)
You oughta change your mind
(yes)
All of your friends are (uh huh) standing in line
They're getting tired of your attitude fast
You better lose it X2
Without all your bodyguards
How long would you last?
Not long
(not long)

You think you're radical
but you're not so radical
in fact you're fanatical
Fanatical
(X2)

She's starting to live her life
From the inside out
The sound of failure calls her name
She's decided to hear it out

So go tell Britney and go tell Gwen
She's not tryin' to go against all them
'Cause she's too scared and she can't pretend
To understand where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on

Standing there in the graveyard
While the moon sprays its fireworks in your hair
the sound of failure calls her name
She's decided to hear it out

So go tell Britney and go tell Gwen
She's not tryin' to go against all them
'Cause she's too scared and she can't pretend
To understand where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on
Where it begins or ends
Or what it's like to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let it go on

She doesn't know where it will take her
As she's going into the unknown

They tell us autumn's a-comin' and soon everything around us will die
Only a fool believes that he is different from the birds in the sky
All those birds go chasin' some better sunny days
You can't hear them singing 'cause they've all gone away

But this one bird didn't leave you
It stayed through the wintertime
You can't hear it sing, but you can hear it as it flies

So don't you believe them
They'll destroy you with their lies
They only see the obvious
They see the sun go down, but they don't see it rise

This one bird didn't leave you
You can hear it as it flies
It's not very loud, but you can hear it if you try

So don't you believe them
Yes, it's true someday everything dies
We won't let that defeat us
We can't hear them singing
But we can hear it as it flies

Who knows?
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars callin' out my name
They'll glow from above our heads
Nothin' there to see you down on your knees
Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven
Back from the future maybe there aint no heaven
There's just you and me
Maybe that's just as well
And if there ain't no heaven
Maybe there ain't no hell

Who knows?
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars callin' out my name
Who knows?
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars callin' out my name
Who knows?
Who knows?

Who knows?
Who knows?

Callin' out my name
Who knows?
Who knows?

Callin' out my name

[No lyrics]

It overtakes me, It overtakes me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh I
It overtakes me, It Master-Slaves me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh I

It overtakes me, It overtakes me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh I
It overtakes me, It Wakes and Bakes me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh I

You know that it isn't real
You know that it isn't real
You'll disappear in a black hole
You know that it isn't real
Floating out of control.... Oh Wow

It overtakes me, it overtakes me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh I
It overtakes me, it overtakes me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh I
It overtakes me, It Master-Slaves me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh I

You know that it isn't real
You know that it isn't real

It overtakes me, It overtakes me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh I
It overtakes me, It Wakes and Bakes me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh
It overtakes me, It overtakes me
It overtakes me, It overtakes me
It overtakes me, It overtakes me
It overtakes me... Oh oh oh

And I'm there, looking up at the sky
And I'm scared, thinkin' 'bout the way that I
Don't understand anything at all...
And how it overtakes me... and I am just so small...
Do I stand a chance?

"Waiting, for the Ambulance to come
Hoping that it doesn't come too late
Hearing the sirens in the distance
Hold on help is on the way.

Mr Ambulance Driver
I'm right here beside her
Though I live somehow I frown

Mr Ambulance Driver
I'm not a real survivor
Wishing that I was the one that wasn't here anymore
The one that wasn't here anymore
The one that wasn't here anymore

Oh we can't trade places
Our lives are strangely our own
Mr Ambulance Driver
Tell me
For everyone that dies
Someone new is born

Mr Ambulance Driver
I'm right here beside her
And though i live somehow I frown

Mr Ambulance Driver
I'm not a real survivor
Cause wishing i was the one that
Wasn't gonna be here anymore.

Mr Ambulance Driver
Though I live
Somehow I found
Mr Ambulance Driver
I'm not a real survivor
Cause wishin I was the one that wasn't here anymore
The one that wasnt here anymore"

Oh man!
Oh right!
1, 2
3

You haven't got a clue
And you don't know what to do
You used your money and your friends
To try and trick me
But you won't trick me

As far as I can tell
You've created your own hell
Now you walk around this place
Expecting pity

Every time you throw a fit
I can't decide if you're full of it
And every time you state your case
The more I want to punch your face
I go
Doo-doo doo (x8)

I still can't believe
All your plastic surgery
Now it's everybody's problem
That you're unhappy
Oh, come on!

And every time you state your case
The more I want to punch your face
And every time you state your case
The more I want to punch your face
And every time you state your case
The more I want to punch your face
I go
Doo-doo doo (x24)

"(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)

Time after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world
Telling us all it's them who's in charge of it all
I've got a tricked out magic stick that will make them all fall
We've got the power now, motherfuckers; that's where it belongs

You've got that right
(Power in there)
You know that it's...
(Wand in the air)

They've got their weapons to solve all their questions, they don't know what it's for
(Cause they don't know what it's for)
Why can't they see it's not power, just greed, to just want more and more?
(Just want more and more)
I got a plan and it's here in my hand but it's all made of rights
We're the enforcers, the sorcerer's orphans, and we know why we fight
(And we know why we fight)

You've got that right
(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)

(You've got the power in there)
(You've got the power in there)
(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)

You've got that right
You know that it's..."

Running to the station holding hands
Now the volcano is flowing red
Something there will change us into sand

Now we'll be forever holding hands
Lava and tephra will form our bed
Now the royal flames of Pompeii bless
All our senses...

We hold our breath 'till the morning comes
and at last the sun shines through
but the night's so hard that it seems impossible
But what else can we do...

Goin' on--Uh huh

Listen you'll hear it
We're gettin' near it
It's comin' I can feel it
'Cause I know you(re goin' away

Listen you'll hear it
We're gettin' near it
I know I really fear it
but we pretend it's just another day

Goin' on--Uh huh

We tell ourselves it's all just normal
'Til the worst of it is gone
And then you give up and you give out
And you just cant take it
How do we keep going on?