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The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize??
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One of the Flaming Lips' best-loved songs, “Do You Realize” reached #32 on the UK Singles Chart, was chosen to be the Official Rock Song of the state of Oklahoma, and is an
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The Flaming Lips (Ft. Miley Cyrus) – We a Famly
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[Intro: Wayne Coyne] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1: Wayne Coyne] / It’s been a long, cold winter / Feels like it's been forever, yeah / We both travelin' / I’m somewhere south
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The Flaming Lips – Fight Test
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From the album liner notes: “The subject of this song is the singer’s regret about taking the attitude of "not fighting” to an extreme – and by the end of the song realizes he’s
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The Flaming Lips – Race for the Prize
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“Race For The Prize (Sacrifice Of The New Scientists)” is the first single taken from The Soft Bulletin, reaching #39 in the UK Singles Chart as the highest charting single from
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The Flaming Lips – When You Smile
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It's like I never had to see it in your eyes or feel it / I could tell when you smile / It's like I didn't need to say anything or do much / I could tell when you smile / All of
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The Flaming Lips – Powerless
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[Verse 1] / Honey, you're just paranoid / You should do what you enjoy / No one is ever really powerless / That's what she said and she gave me a kiss / No one is ever really
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The Flaming Lips – The Impulse
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[Verse 1] / If you'd just come down / From your space tower jail / I could have shown you / Those colors aren't so pale / The way it glows / The way it shines / The way it plays on
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The Flaming Lips – The Gash
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Is that gash in your leg / Really why you have stopped? / Cause I've noticed all the others / Though they're gashed, they're still going / Cause I feel like the real reason / That
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The Flaming Lips – The Terror
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[Verse 1] / However long they love you, we are all standing alone / The terror’s in our heads, we don't control the controls / I turn to face the sun, we are still standing alone
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The Flaming Lips – She Don't Use Jelly
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[Verse 1] / I know a girl who thinks of ghosts / She'll make you breakfast, she'll make you toast / But she don't use butter, and she don't use cheese / She don't use jelly, or any
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The Flaming Lips – The Observer
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[Instrumental]
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The Flaming Lips – The Observer
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[Instrumental]
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The Flaming Lips – Christmas at the Zoo
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This song appears on the Lips' 1995 album Clouds Taste Metallic.
Here Wayne’s narrator describes freeing animals locked up at the zoo, only to find that they don’t leave.
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The Flaming Lips – Free Radicals
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Wayne Coyne explained in 2006 that this song was inspired by a dream in which Devendra Banhart was pleading with a suicide bomber. This helps explain the fact that the song’s full
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The Flaming Lips – Waitin’ for a Superman
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[Verse 1] / I asked you a question / But I didn't need you to reply / "Is it getting heavy?" / But then I realized / [Pre-Chorus] / Is it getting heavy? / Well, I thought it was
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The Flaming Lips – Are You a Hypnotist??
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[Verse 1] / I had forgiven you / For tricking me again / But I have been tricked again / Into forgiving you / [Chorus] / What is this? / Are you some kind of hypnotist? / Waving
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The Flaming Lips – In the Morning of the Magicians
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This song is the author waking up and reflecting upon life, the powerful universe, and questioning ones own place and decisions made in it.
“The Morning of the Magicians” is a
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The Flaming Lips – The Spiderbite Song
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This song is about two incidents that occurred to members of the Flaming Lips while they were recording their previous record, Zaireeka, and lead singer/songwriter Wayne Coyne’s
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The Flaming Lips – The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Chorus 1] / (You've got the power in there) / (Waving your wand in the air) / [Verse 1] / Time after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world
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The Flaming Lips – The Spark That Bled
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“The Spark That Bled (The Softest Bullet Ever Shot)” is track 3 off The Flaming Lips’s critically-acclaimed LP The Soft Bulletin. It is the longest track on the album, clocking in
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The Flaming Lips – Be Free, a Way
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[Verse 1] / Did God make pain / So we can know / The high that nothing is / The sun shines down / But we're still cold / It's light is not a light that shines / [Interlude] / The
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The Flaming Lips – Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
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[Verse 1] / I was waiting on a moment / But the moment never came / All the billion other moments / Were just slipping all away / [Chorus 1] / (I must have been tripping) Were just
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The Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands
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[Verse 1] / She keeps feeling for the blindfold / She keeps wishing for the secret society to fall / She keeps watching for the jaguar / With a silver trembling hand / Dagger
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The Flaming Lips – All We Have Is Now
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From Wayne Coyne’s liner notes:
“The story of a man who glimpses himself through some rip in the fabric of time and space – at first his future self is thought to be some
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The Flaming Lips – A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
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The title of the song is based on the concept of density in certain celestial bodies such as neutron stars being so compact that a miniscule amount of mass would weigh hundreds of
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The Flaming Lips – The Castle
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[Verse 1] / Her eyes were butterflies / Her smile was a rainbow / Her hair was sunbeam waves / Shining 'round like a halo / Her face was a fairy tale / That has a poison apple
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The Flaming Lips – Evil
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[Verse 1] / I wish I could go back / Go back in time / I wish I could go back / Back in time / I would've warned you / Those people are evil / And it's hard to understand / I'll
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The Flaming Lips – Buggin'
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[Verse 1] / All those bugs buzzing around your head / Well, they fly in the air as you comb your hair / And the summertime will make you itch the mosquito bites / The buzz of love
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The Flaming Lips – In a Dream
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Thought I saw you / In a dream / You were standing / In the corner / When I hold you / In the dream / I believe you / Everything / Everything / Everything / Thought I saw you / In
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The Flaming Lips – Be My Head
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[Verse 1] / You can be my head / Oh, I really need one / 'Cause it's used all its better days / And you can be my head / 'Cause I've ruined this one / Blasting holes where it used
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The Flaming Lips – When Yer Twenty Two
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Stuck in the perpetual motion of dyin' against the machine / The whole thing leaves / You a nothing instead of a these / The sun is black and the black halos fly / And your number
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The Flaming Lips – Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
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“Feeling Yourself Disintegrate” is a powerful song in spite of short lyrics. As Wayne Coyne put it:
“You must understand that you are in process of dying”.
In a 2013 documentary
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The Flaming Lips – Brother Eye
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[Verse 1] / Brother, I don't want you to die / Brother, can you live forever? / Brother, I don't wanna cry / Oh / [Refrain] / Can you live forever? / Can you live forever? / Oh / [
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The Flaming Lips – Haven’t Got a Clue
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[Verse 1] / You haven't got a clue / And you don't know what to do / You used your money and your friends / To try and trick me / But you won't trick me / As far as I can tell
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The Flaming Lips – Try to Explain
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[Verse] / Is it wise, loving someone / They tell lies, make you think something / I'm not wise, I believe what you tell me / I believe you, I believe you, I believe / A love that
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The Flaming Lips – What Is the Light?
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[Verse 1] / What is the light / That you have / Shining all around you / Is it chemically derived / Cause if it's natural / Something glowing from inside / Shining all around you
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