So it goes
When science keeps disproving things that everybody knows
Got to find a place to hide your faith
build a thicker wall

Deeper in
it takes you to a darker place where doubts and shouts begin
Got to try to solve the mysteries
the theory of it all

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Break it down break it down
the fundamental physics of the thing is what we try to find
Break it down break it down
try to see what lurks behind

We've adored
those kits and bits of soldering a circuit board
The heat, the smell awakes in us
connection to the core

Makes us laugh
the flash and splash of bringing up a photograph
see the silver oxide work for us
revealing ever more

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Break it down break it down
the fundamental physics of the thing is what we try to find
Break it down break it down
try to see what hides behind

Break it down break it down
elemental building blocks are there to move around
Break it down break it down
look and see what we have found

Far above, where we look to find reflections of our deepest love
there's no need to subdivide the heart
or to tear it apart, break it down

Space and time
a captivating jungle gym for every boy to climb
the thrill's about discovering
an answer for the day

Not their trip
the passion to examine one's relationship
that's a game for someone else to play
a chromosome away

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what would you do
tell me what would you do

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What makes one day unlike another?
Along our way the winds of change begin to blow
they scatter what we know like pages of our scripted play
blown away

I took a flight down to Atlanta
Another day of travel, of sharing space with strangers
seldom re-arranges the way I know the world to be
from what I see

I saw you and you saw me
How music passed between us is a mystery
But there was a connection and it took me by surprise
a look of understanding in your eyes

I saw you and you saw me
what makes a little song become a symphony?
One heart finds its melody, another sings along
and all the walls between us are as fragile as a song

It's not the notes you play it's the ones left out
Not the words you say that speak what you're about
spill the insides out, and give the world a chance to share
the magic there

And so I reach for my guitar
And with my ape-like fingers commence to strum along
attempt to find a song, express the things that came my way
on that day

I saw you and you saw me
how music passed between us is a mystery
But there was a connection and it took me by surprise
a look of understanding in your eyes

I touched you and you touched me
what made our little song become a symphony?
One heart finds its melody, another sings along
and all the walls between us are as fragile as a song

Hands, look at your hands
I believe the grime under your fingernails shows what you've created
and the lines of how you're fated
Hands, all etched in your hands,
the remnants of the bricks that you've laid
mistakes that you've made
and the prices that you've paid

Hands, show me your hands
Show me the singular shape that your fingers make
when they are held out to be kissed
or curled in a fist.
All there in your hands
The reap and the sow, your high and your low,
the flux and the flow

I remember the feeling I had when I held up my infant overhead
how she fit in the hollows of my hands
so long ago but that pulse still remains there fluttering in my palms
Life abides in your hands.

Hands, open your hands
Raise your hands
In your hands, it's all in your...

Soup soup super soup supercollider soup
supercollider supercollider supercollider

They've got a supercollider near Geneva
so big it reaches under France
You know a supercollider shoots particles
so scientists can watch them dance.

They built a supercollider down in Texas
twenty miles of tunnels they could pave.
Cost so much to make they never finished it
They should have rented it out and had a rave.

I want a supercollider for my birthday
I've got a big basement I could fit it in.
I'll have you all come over for a party,
we can go downstairs and take that sucker for a spin

I don't know how to drive a supercollider
and I don't think they want to have me in the loop
but I know they better keep it to the speed limit
or we could all meet up in a cup of primordeal soup.

Soup!

My dog Lilly thinks that I am a god
My dog Lilly thinks that I am a god
I think that she suspects I am not perfect
But we both know she doesn't really care
Cause she believes her food appears by magic
and she notices that I'm the one who's there

My dog Lilly.... My dog Lilly

My dog Lilly thinks that I am a god
My dog Lilly thinks that I am a god
I took her to our local doggie school
and she quickly mastered every trick they had
but once we got home she'd break every rule
look up at me, and feel real bad

Throw the god a bone
If you can reach him on his cell phone
Cut that god some slack
if you expect to ever have him call you back
Give that dude a break
before you tell him that he's made some big mistake
And you do not have to feel so all alone
Everybody sometimes has to wind it up and
throw that god a bone

My dog Lilly thinks that I am a god
Say, every dog thinks that we all are gods
They can see we all know how to drive a car
And we've just about built condos on the moon
That we might create life's not so bizarre
if not already it may happen soon

Being a god's not always great                  Remember this before you start to celebrate
and gods have come and gone before       Sometimes it seems the sky is one revolving door
There are some godly fundamentals
Up on Mt. Olympus you can't buy
it's only rentals

My dog Lilly thinks that I am a god
Every dog thinks that we all are gods
And if one day we create some new species
then we'll be quick to teach them how to pray
but you can be sure they will test their leashes
and do just what they want to anyway

Throw the god a bone
If you can reach him on his cell phone
Cut that god some slack
if you expect to ever have him call you back
Give that dude a break
before you tell him that he's made some big mistake
And you do not have to feel so all alone
Everybody sometimes has to wind it up and
throw the god a bone
If you can reach her on her cell phone
Cut that god some slack
if you expect to ever have her call you back
Give that babe a break
before you tell her that she's made some kind of
great big huge mistake
And you do not have to feel so all alone
Everybody sometimes has to wind it up and
throw that god a bone

Where, tell me where is it safe?
Where in this world of ours, this spinning wobbling ball of teeming lurking trouble
where... where are you really safe?

Tornados twisters tidal waves
flood and avalanche
Landslide, mudslide, people in Boston killed by a molasses slide!
Where, I ask you, where... where are you safe?

Blizzard, bomb, banana peel...
where in this hellbent virulent Bible-sent planet
where are you even half safe?

Radiation strangulation assasination
Snakebite, stampede, shark attack.... spontaneous combustion!

Spread your arms, keep your balance
cause, like it or not
we're all surfing this rogue tsunami
called life

They say that heaven's just for some
The ones who have the right connections
But in this world of ours you find
connections of so many kinds

The smile a mother gives her child           Child, a smile alights his face
the hand that reaches out to lift us up       lifts us to a higher place
the eyes that see the one they love            see love inside
inside them gleam reflections of               you can see it there, see reflections of
Utopia                                                      Utopia

And when the music's almost done
the fading echoes of the last guitar
reverberate inside the mind                       in mind they find
releasing all the dreams they find              all the dreams inside all the dreams they find

If I could hold my fathers hand again        I'd hold my fathers hand again
if I could be once more the boy I was        the boy I was, remember when
If I could dream again those dreams          I'd dream, dream those dreams
now I know they're windows to                 now I know they're true, they're the windows to
Utopia                                                      Utopia

Lately I've been digging back into my salad days
Ennui creeping in from the past like some kind of purple haze

Thought we had a generation that talked about peace and wanted to live it too
But I read the news today and I ask myself
Tell me what would Jimi do?

Just today, picked up my guitar and try to make it burn
Aint no way I can break out beyond the things I've learned

Where you look for inspiration; the shoulders of giants, and baby it matters who
But I hear the radio today, and I ask you now
Tell me what would Jimi do

Lord, but the man could play            Ain't nobody
Aint nobody doing it                       Like that today
nothin like that today                      Try to find that child inside of you
You gotta find the child and let it through                  Another view
with something new                        out of the blue
you might                                       right
give it                                              now
some                                               hit it
and show me what would Jimi do