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 

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 

And all that noise and all that sound
All those places I got found
And the 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 

Ideas that you'll never find
All the inventors could never design
The buildings that you put up
Japan and China were 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 

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,
ah when you see it then you'll understand? 

All those signs, I knew what they meant.
Some things you can invent.
Some get made, and some get sent,
Ooh? 

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,
ah, when you see it then you'll understand?