Music & lyrics: john popper
Have you ever seen an atom
Little bits of everything floating by
Take a good look at them
Collectively they compose all you see including your eye
Brilliant puzzle
A living rubix cube we think we can figure out and solve
But were just monkeys
Scratching our heads trying to open our ears
To a chord that just wont seem to resolve
And we call it wisdom
Yes intellect in our truest sense of the word
You see for us security means a harmony
According to only what we have heard
And this along and nothing less
Will ease our heart and our mind
In the hopes that in feeling free well reach paradise
On that hilltop were still trying to find
But the possibility exists no matter how scary it may seem
That paradise was once the world and it wasnt just a dream
The earth was our heaven and we didnt know there were rules for us to break
And maybe now well find out too late what a clever hell we can make
Whoops
Whoops
In this corner
Weighing in at almost every weight imaginable...
Life, and all that surrounds it
And in this corner
Weighing in at well, not really very much of anything;
A very sound and user friendly idea
On finally bringing that pesky mountain to mohammed
Gentlemen at the sound of the harmonica solo you may come out fighting
Take a look at the horizon
Quiet and still
You know there used to be bison
Gentlemen you may fire at will
They say this land wont go to waste
But you gotta wonder how
You know were chopping down the air we breathe
As fodder for the cow
Thats right so we can eat well
Yes and starve to death
And say theres nothing we can do
Because we really dont want to do a goddamn thing
Look Im shrugging and so are you
We can imagine the straightest of lines
But our fingers cant control the pen
And its this frustration that yields relief
As we say were just mortal men
And that means we get to torture a chimpanze
And infect him with disease
Because he screams just like a human child
While we study his desperate pleas
But the possibility exists no matter how scary it may seem
That paradise was once the world and it wasnt just a dream
The earth was our heaven and we didnt know there were rules for us to break
And maybe now well find out too late what a clever hell we can make
Whoops
Whoops
While were on the subject you know my conscience hurts
And it will not go away
So please concoct me some pill I can take
While I think of something clever to say
So I can look in my mirror made of polished glass
And find no need to cringe
And forget that sinking feeling Im a dinosaur
Out on his drunken last binge
...from fossil to fossil
Dust to dust
Ill see you all in the earthy crust
Whoops
Whoops
