Fight Test

The Flaming Lips · Fight Test [2003]

I thought I was smart

I thought I was right

I thought it better not to fight

I thought there was a virtue

in always being cool.



So when it came time to fight,

I thought 'I'll just step aside',

and that the time would prove you wrong

and that you were the fool.



I don't know where the sunbeams end

or the starlight begins, it's all a mystery.



Oh, to fight is to defend

If it's not now then tell me when

would be the time that you would

stand up and be a man.



For, to lose, I could accept,

but to surrender I just wept

and regretted this moment.

Oh, and that I was the fool.



I don't know where the sunbeams end

or the starlight begins, it's all a mystery.

And I don't know how a man decides

what's right for his own life, it's all a mystery.



'Cause I'm a man, not a boy

and there are things you can't avoid.

You have to face them

when you're not prepared to face them.



If I could, I would

but you're with him now, it'd do no good.

I should have fought him but instead,

I let him, let him take it.



I don't know where the sunbeams end

or the starlight begins, it's all a mystery.

And I don't know how a man decides

what's right for his own life, it's all a mystery.



(Break)



I don't know where the sunbeams end

or the starlight begins, it's all a mystery.

And I don't know how a man decides

what's right for his own life, it's all a mystery.



Mystery...