Genius Meanings
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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 – 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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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 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 – 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 – The Observer
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[Instrumental]
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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 – Sleeping on the Roof
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[Instrumental]
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The Flaming Lips – Slow Motion
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Hey, come on over / You know that time / Is going slower / It takes a year / To make a day / And I feeling like a float / In a Macy's Day Parade / Or like a boat / Out on the ocean
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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 – 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 – Suddenly Everything Has Changed
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[Chorus] / Putting all the vegetables away / That you bought at the grocery store today / And it goes fast / You think of the past / Suddenly everything has changed / [Verse
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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 – Waiting for a Superman (Mokran Mix)
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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 – The Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now
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[Verse] / We have three dogs that love to chew stuff up, so we're always gettin' them some toys and stuffed animals and stuff so they can destroy them. And usually whatever we get
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The Flaming Lips – Silent Night/Lord, Can You Hear Me
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Silent night, holy night / All is calm, all is bright / Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child / Holy Infant so tender and mild / Sleep in heavenly peace / Sleep in heavenly peace
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Pitchfork – The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s
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1. Pavement – "Gold Soundz" / 2. Pulp – "Common People" / 3. Dr. Dre (feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg) – "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" / 4. Radiohead – "Paranoid Android" / 5. Wu-Tang Clan – "
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The Flaming Lips – Look... The Sun Is Rising
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[Verse 1] / There's a little spaceship / Hiding in the clouds / You want it to love you / Its peaceful voice is loud / You can hear the voice / Telling you to love / It's the voice
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The Flaming Lips – If I Only Had a Brain
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I would while away the hours / Conferin' with the flowers / Consultin' with the rain / And my head I'd be scratchin' / While my thoughts were busy hatchin' / If I only had a brain
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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 – Chewin the Apple of Your Eye
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Hey what were ya thinkin' / When they were startin' the show / Yeah, I was there / But I didn't care at all / I was tryin' to find you / When you got lost in the crowd / Cause I'm
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The Flaming Lips – Always There, in Our Hearts
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[Verse 1] / Always there, in our hearts / Fear of violence and of death / Always there, in our hearts / There is love and there is pain / Always there, in our hearts / There is
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The Flaming Lips (Ft. Phantogram) – You Lust
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[Verse 1] / You've got a lot of nerve / A lot of nerve to fuck with me / Better kill your emperor / 'Cause you know you're just like me / You lust, you lust, you lust / [Chorus
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The Flaming Lips – Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die
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[Verse 1] / If you've ever really seen the sunrise / You'd see how many times it tries / If you've ever really seen the sunset / You'd see how long it takes to die / [Verse 2
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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 – 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 – Sun Blows Up Today
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[Verse 1] / Don't stop, tick tock / Sun blows up today / Don't stop, punk rock / Too much fun today / Run and run and too much fun today / Run to outer space / Seeing your smiling
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The Flaming Lips – You Are Alone
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[Verse 1] / All the time you know about is bad / All the time you told me I was bad / That I have no goodness left in me / And I'll have to live beyond reality's dream / Oh, girl
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The Flaming Lips – You Gotta Hold On
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When will you see it? / Man, it's everywhere / When will you smell it? / Man, it's in the air / When will you know it? / Only when you care / And with a lot of patience / We'll see
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Felt – Henrietta Longbottom
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Chorus: / [MURS] Have you heard them stories bout Henrietta Longbottom? / [Slug] Yeah, I heard a lot of 'em and everybody got 'em / [MURS] I never really met her but I know it's
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Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (Chap. 1: "Battle Royal")
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This depiction of a battle royal (blindfolded boxing match) of black men overseen by a greedy, racist white elite is widely considered one of the most brutal scenes in all of
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