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We Can’t Predict the Future

The Flaming Lips
Track 6 on The Soft Bulletin 5.1 

Producers

Scott Booker & Dave Fridmann
Jun. 22, 00991 viewer

We Can’t Predict the Future Lyrics

We can't predict the future
Or resist the inevitable
Urge to try
And we want to know the answers
To understand the infinitude
Of time
And if that's just the way it is
And all that will remain unchanged
We cannot rearrange all the universe
To suit our ways
We can't predict the future
Or understand the infinitude
Of time... and space
How long will it take
Before I can realize?
Realize?
Realize?
Realize?
Realize?
Realize?
Realize?
Realize?
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The Soft Bulletin 5.1 (2005)
The Flaming Lips
  1. 1.
    1000 Ft. Hands
  2. 2.
    The Captain Is a Cold Hearted and Egotistical Fool
  3. 3.
    Satellite of You
  4. 4.
    Up Above the Daily Hum
  5. 5.
    The Switch That Turns Off the Universe
  6. 6.
    We Can’t Predict the Future
  7. 7.
    It Remained Unrealizable (Missing Lyrics)
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Release Date
June 22, 0099
Tags
Rock
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