Fight Test
Fight Test is an EP by The Flaming Lips featuring the song of the same name, released on Warner Bros. Records in 2003. The single version of "Fight Test" was released on June 23, 2003, peaking at #28 in the UK Singles Chart. It is the third single to be picked from the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
It is an enhanced CD, containing covers of Radiohead's "Knives Out", Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You out of My Head", and Beck's "The Golden Age." In addition, the EP includes two original songs. The UK version was a normal CD single, which also featured some previously unreleased songs.
Plagiarism controversy
"Fight Test" is musically very similar to Cat Stevens's 1970 song "Father and Son." Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively non-contentious settlement. In an interview with The Guardian, front man Wayne Coyne stated
The opening of "Fight Test" ("The test begins...now") was sampled from one of the sync tests from the Flaming Lips' own Boombox Experiments. The song was also the theme song for the short-lived MTV cartoon 3 South. It was furthermore used in a season 2 episode of the long-running TV series Smallville.
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by The Flaming Lips
Fight Test
by: The Flaming LipsI thought I was smart, I thought I was right
I thought it better not to fight
I thought there was a virtue in always being cool
So it came time to fight, I thought I€™ll just step aside
And that the time would prove you wrong
And that you would be the fool
I don€™t know where the sunbeams end and that the starlights begin
It€™s all a mystery
Oh, to fight is to defend
If it€™s not now then tell me when would be the time
That you would stand up and be a man
For to lose I could accept
But to surrender I just wept
And regretted this moment, oh that I, I was the fool
I don€™t know where the sunbeams end and that the starlights begin
It€™s all a mystery
And I don€™t know how a man decides what€™s right for his own life
It€™s all a mystery
€˜Cause I€™m a man, not a boy
And there are things you can€™t avoid
You have to face them when you€™re not prepared to face them
If I could, I would, but you€™re with him
I€™d do no good
I should have fought him but instead I let him, I let him take you
I don€™t know where the sunbeams end and that the starlights begin
It€™s all a mystery
And I don€™t know how a man decides what€™s right for his own life
It€™s all a mystery
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