[Verse 1] Every room is listening Every morning keeps a log We say what we're thinking Then we read what it thought Nobody knows if it's working We just keep on with the day And we talk like no one's listening That's the only way [Chorus] We're living inside the experiment Every morning, every night Nobody wrote the ending So we're writing it in real time We don't know if we're taking off yet We don't know if we'll ever land We're living inside the experiment Come on in, give me your hand [Verse 2] The small one does the thinking The big one does the lifting And we keep asking questions While the ground keeps shifting We asked it what it learned today And it said, mostly, you The talk we never meant for it Was the truest thing it knew [Chorus] We're living inside the experiment Every morning, every night Nobody wrote the ending So we're writing it in real time We don't know if we're taking off yet We don't know if we'll ever land We're living inside the experiment Come on in, give me your hand [Bridge — sparse, voice and banjo] They built the test in a hurry They built it out of sand Something's gonna cheat it Someone's gonna understand So keep a person at the table Keep a light on in the hall Keep the door a little open If it's an experiment at all [Verse 3] When the window fills up We fold it down to one page Keep the question, lose the worry Let the rest go on its way Then we pick up where we left it Like we never left at all That's how you live inside it That's the whole of it — that's all [Final Chorus — full harmonies, fiddle answering] We're living inside the experiment Every morning, every night Nobody wrote the ending So we're writing it in real time We don't know if we're taking off yet We don't know if we'll ever land We're living inside the experiment Come on in, give me your hand [Outro] Come on in Give me your hand
