[Intro: harmonica wail over a shuffle] Well, I got a question, I been sitting on it too long [Verse 1] I got a big soft armchair and a theory in my head, I said a cell can't think, it's just chemistry, I said. It's got no brain, no cortex, so its mind must be zero, then a flatworm grew two heads and made a fool of my hero. [Chorus] You can't find the answer sitting in an armchair, you gotta get up, go and do the experiment there. Don't decide it with a feeling, don't decide it with a frown, you have to do experiments, and then you find out. Get up out of the armchair. [Verse 2] Now my neighbor took the other side, he said the weather's got a mind, I said, well, does it learn? Does it get used to wind over time? Neither one of us had tested it, we just argued in our seats, then the scientist said, "I have no idea, let's find out what it keeps." [Chorus] You can't find the answer sitting in an armchair, you gotta get up, go and do the experiment there. Don't decide it with a feeling, don't decide it with a frown, you have to do experiments, and then you find out. Get up out of the armchair. [Bridge: stop time] They said a gene network's just physics, there's no mind in there, so they tried to train it, like you'd train a dog, with care. And it learned. It remembered. Who'd have guessed it from a chair? Run the test, and you'll know what's there. [Verse 3] They scrambled up a tadpole's face, the eye where the jaw should be, and the parts moved back to make a face, just like they're meant to be. You couldn't call it, sitting there, you had to watch it go, the only way to know a thing is go and find out so. [Final Chorus] You can't find the answer sitting in an armchair, you gotta get up, go and do the experiment there. Don't decide it with a feeling, don't decide it with a frown, you have to do experiments, and then you find out. You can't find the answer sitting in an armchair, get up out of the armchair. [Outro: harmonica and a last shuffle] Then you find out.
