Speed of sound
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1. How long before I get in, before it starts, before I begin ?
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How long before you decide, before
I know what it feels like ?
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Where to? Where do I go? If
you never try, then you'll never know.
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How long do I have to climb up
on this side of this mountain of mine.
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2. Look up, I look up at night, planets are moving at the speed of light.
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Climb up, up in the trees,every
chance that you get,is a chance you seize.
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How long am I gonna stand with my head stuck under the sand
?
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I'll start before I can stop,
before I see things the right way up.
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All that noise, and all that
sound,
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all these places that I have
found,
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the birds go flying at the
speed of sound to show you how it all began,
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birds come
flying from the underground,
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if you could see it, then
you'd understand.
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3. Ideas that you'll never find all the inventors could never design.
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The buildings that you put up,
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The sign
that I couldn't read, or a light that I couldn't see.
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Some things you have to
believe, but others are puzzles, puzzling me.
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All that noise, and all that
sound,
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all these places that I have
found,
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the birds go flying at the
speed of sound to show you how it all began,
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birds come
flying from the underground,
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if you could see it, then
you'd understand.
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oh, if you see it, then you'll
understand.
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All those signs, I knew what
they meant, some things you can't invent,
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some got made, some got sent,
ooh.
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The birds go flying at the
speed of sound to show you how it all began,
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birds came
flying from the underground,
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if you could see it, then
you'd understand.
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oh, when you see it, then
you'll understand.
(Coldplay)