2.5 million years ago, a friend of mine

Made a tool from a stone and defended his tribe

It’s technology, sorry for the technical term

It’s a wheel, then a fire and the rest is a blur

Throw a theorized plot in the pot with applied science

Let it sit, I bet it streamlines your environs

What’s a resource local to the grotto

The method isn’t free until the mechanism follow

That’s technology, innovate a difference

A feat of engineering, a system made efficient

There isn’t a condition, complication, or revision

Where the answer ain’t to build a more sophisticated widget

Idget, tired of games, Bronze Age, Iron Age

Weaponry in stellar form, shelter finer by the day

Live stock and vegetables in rows behind the hideaway

Mesopotamia out the muhfuckin' lion cage

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

You take a lever and a pulley and a winch and a wedge

You get a labyrinth of aqueducts and pyramid steps

Before the Jesus, Archimedes on that miracle tech

Year zero, you could feel the future rearing its head

Put a shoe on a horse, shoot a man with a gun

Steampower, bifocals, and mechanical funk

Manipulate electricity, no it can not be done

Yes it can, ain’t a dam that could cancel the flood

True to human curiosity, at the tree of knowledge

Pulling genies out of bottles, stealing from Leonardos

Plane train auto, hauling space age cargo

Bizarro technology, everyday is tomorrow

Telegraph, telephone, you could flirt with Doris

In Poughkeepsie from a cozy geodesic dome in Sydney

You can write a letter with no paper

You could fix anything with a laser

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

You could get a robot limb for your blown off limb,

Later on the same technology could automate your gig

As awesome as it is

Wait It gets awful, you could split a atom willy-nilly

If it’s energy that can be used for killing then it will be

It’s not about a better knife, It’s chemistry and genocide

And medicine for tempering the heck in the projector light

Landmines, agent orange, leaded gas, cigarettes

Cameras in your favorite corners, plastic in the wilderness

We can not be trusted with the stuff that we come up with

The machinery could eat us, we just really just love our buttons

Ummm... technology, focus on the other shit

3D-printed body parts, dehydrated onion dip

You could buy a jet-ski from a cell phone on a jumbo jet

T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y, it’s the ultimate

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat