Speed of Sound (Live)

How long before I get in?

Before it starts, before I begin?

How long before you decide?

Or 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?

I look up, I look up at night

The planets are movin' at the speed of light

Climb up, up in the trees, every chance that you get

Is a chance you seize

And how long am I gonna stand

With my head stuck under the sand?

I'll start before I can stop

Or before I see things the right way up

All that noise and all that sound

All those places I have found

And birds go flyin' at the speed of sound

To show you how it all began

Birds came flyin' from the underground

If you could see it, then you'd understand

Ideas that you'll never find

All the inventors could never design

All of the buildings that you put up

Oh, Japan and China, 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, puzzlin' me

But all that noise and all that sound

And all those places I had found

And birds go flyin' at the speed of sound

To show you how it all began

Birds came flyin' from the underground

If you could see it, then you'd understand

Oh, when you see it, then you'll understand

Hey

And all those signs, I knew what they meant

Some things you can invent

And some get made and some get sent

Oh

Birds go flyin' at the speed of sound

To show you how it all began

Birds came flyin' from the underground

If you could see it, then you'd understand

Oh, when you see it, then you'll understand