You can drive a car full speed into the ocean Only to find that car will sink while still in motion That's why someone sometime somewhere built a boat Because a boat, you'll notice, always stays afloat Most people realize we can't control the weather And they accept they'll never sprout a single feather They simply put up an umbrella when it rains And fly across the sky in aeroplanes We're sending spaceships on a journey to the moon We're turning nighttime into day when darkness lingers Tulips for Christmas and a mistletoe for early June We've turned the world into a hothouse Now we're bound to burn our fingers (Burn our fingers) With a scientist, a mouse can try his games on He will manipulate its genes until the brain's gone When the little mouse is twice its normal size The scientist will go and win the Nobel prize We're sending spaceships on a journey to the moon We're turning nighttime into day when darkness lingers Tulips for Christmas and a mistletoe for early June We've turned the world into a hothouse Now we're bound to burn our fingers If we keep on trying We may well blow up the Universe (Wooh...) If we keep on trying We may end up like Einstein in reverse (Wooh...) Woah, oh... We're sending the spaceships on a journey to the moon We're turning nighttime into day when darkness lingers Tulips for Christmas and a mistletoe for early June We've turned the world into a hothouse Now we're bound to burn our fingers