The Flaming Lips - The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness lyrics

They started up the hill With their young lives exploding still They love to dream and run They had the gra** and the trees and the sun They dreamed of the gold they'd find At the top of the hill as they climbed No one would ever doubt Their spirit and strength would run out But the hill was steep and long They never thought they'd be wrong It wasn't a hill at all It was a mountain a thousand feet tall But with the gold still in their thoughts They used their young lives to climb and climb By the time they got up to the peak They were old and they were weak There was no gold that they could find It was all just in their minds They had dreamed and they had loved They found the gra** and the trees and the sun They said "What do we do now?" Spend the rest of our lives climbing back down? Or we can treasure what we find And make it golden in our minds