[Verse 1]

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, yeah

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 a vision

Where the answer ain't to build a more sophisticated widget, idgit

Tired of games, Bronze Age, Iron Age

Weaponry in stellar form, shelter finer by the day

Livestock and vegetables in rows behind the hideaway

Mesopotamia out the motherfuckin' lion cage, yuh

[Chorus]

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

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

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

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

[Verse 2]

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

Steam power, bifocals, and mechanical funk

Manipulate electricity, no, it cannot be done

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

True to human curiosity, at the Tree of Knowledge

Pulling genies out of bottles, stealing from Leonardos

Plain train auto hauling space age cargo

Bizzaro technology, every day is tomorrow

Telegraph, telephone, you can flirt with Doris

In Poughkeepsie from a cozy geodesic dome in Sydney

You can write a letter with no paper

You can fix anything with a laser

[Chorus]

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

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

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

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

[Verse 3]

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 a projector light

Landmines, Agent Orange, leaded gas, cigarettes

Cameras in your favorite corners, plastic in the wilderness

We cannot be trusted with the stuff that we come up with

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

Technology, focus on the other shit

3D-printed body parts, dehydrated onion dip

You can 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

[Interlude]

Altitude, climate, geography, medical research, automated teaching, distribution, better health, unknown factors

[Chorus]

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

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

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

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat