The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Norman, Oklahoma in 1983.
Instrumentally, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical [In Our Brains] by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe)". They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die."
The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with "She Don't Use Jelly". Although it has been their only hit single in the U.S., the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability through albums such as 1999's The Soft Bulletin (which was NME magazine's Album of the Year) and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. They have had more hit singles in the UK and Europe than in the U.S. In February 2007, they were nominated for a 2007 BRIT Award in the "Best International Act" category. By 2007, the group garnered three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
put your face up to the window
tell me all about your ";gay folks";
it feels better when you in it
if your nervous use the pay phone
put your face where we can see it
put it on a show on cable
you can really show it all there
turn it on when you are able
(CHORUS)
turn it on
turn it on and all the way up
turn it on
in your houses when you wake up
turn it on
when you ain't got no relation
to all those other stations
turn it on
put your life into a bubble
we can pick you up on radar
";hit "; a satelite with feeling
give the people what they paid for
CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS
Seeing the unseeable,
filling down the void
We're not what we used to be
We're not really boys
Screaming till our lungs are full
Kicking down the teeth
We're not what we used to be
We're just paranoid
Unconsciously screaming
And whispering at everything she brings
I saw this bird fly off his head
without him ever lookin up
this here giraffe was never caught complainin
he wouldn't take skin off yer back.
And ya hear yerself
thinkin
and ya hear yerself
thinking
this here giraffe, laughedI saw this man stick out his neck
with his binoculars intact
He couldn't tell the right side of his brain
Had just lost all interest in his left...
And ya feel yourself shrinkin
And ya feel yourself shrinkin
this here giraffe, laughed
this here giraffe, laughed
And ya hear yourself
And ya hear yourself
This is the last song ever written
About trains and brains and rain.
Ain't it a sin?
For these good lyrics,
I have no fears.
They've all got roles and plots and gears,
They have for years.
Train is running around in my brains.
Rain is flowing around in my veins.
Tears are running down my face,
For the last stupid song. Let's get on board
This scattered brain.
Folks drunk as poets all sound the same,
But don't be afraid.
For this surprise,
If he was with us,
Is that we played this track for you,
And please some tears.
Train is running around in my brains.
Rain iss flowing around in my veins.
Tears are running down my face,
For the last stupid song.
(Jesus Song No. 7)
There you are
And you stand in the rain
And the rain fills your brain
And it makes you think that God
Was fucked up when he made this town
There you stand
With your bleedin' hands
And you don't understand
Why you work so goddamn hard
To be anything at all
There you are
And you drive in your car
And you wish for the stars
And you end up face down in the road
Dead as fuck
They never called me up to the tower, we have it to them, they had the power, and power is the thing that made you take off from me... We trained hard for the mission, all floating over, though we're in zero gravity
Now I'm left here on the landing, the rockets flame boost, as it's leaving without me, and you go off in the sky. Good-bye. Good-bye. Look at the clouds burst, they're growing taller, and as yer ship leaves in the distance my world gets smaller, and it takes you worlds away, a million light years from me... Oh, Oh, Oh
It's such a shame, Johnny smokes
And his eyes are full of fire
Like the first time Captain Marvel zapped him
Right between the eyes
And the sun goes over me (6x)
It'd be so kind to see your face in my door
It wouldn't have to last very long
It'd be so kind to see your face in my door
I wouldn't have to ask anymore
I accidentally touched my head
And noticed that I had been bleeding
For how long I didn't know
What was this, I thought, that struck me?
What kind of weapons have they got?
The softest bullet ever shot
I stood up and I said, yeah!
I stood up and I said, yeah!
I stood up and I said, hey! Yeah!
From this moment on
Blaring like a trumpet
Coming from above us and somewhere below
The confidence of knowing
Descending to relieve us of the struggle
To believe it's so
I stood up and I said, yeah!
I spoke up and I said, hey!
I stood up and I said, hey! Yeah!
And it seemed to cause a chain reaction
It had momentum, it was gaining traction
It was all the rage, it was all the fashion
The outreached hands had resigned themselves
To holding onto something that they never had
And that's too bad
'Cause in reality there was no reaction
I accidentally touched my head
And noticed that I had been bleeding
For how long I didn't know
When you got that spider bite on your hand
I thought we would have to break up the band
To lose your arm would surely upset your brain
The poison then could reach your heart from a vein
I was glad that it didn't destroy you
How sad that would be
Cause if it destroyed you
It would destroy me
When you had that accident in your car
That whole thing just really seemed too bizarre
Dodging holes and telephone poles through the dash
A million to one that you would survive such a crash
I was glad that it didn't destroy you
How sad that would be
Cause if it destroyed you
It would destroy me
When you fell in love, it was so sweet
So devoted, completely swept off your feet
Love is the greatest thing a heart can know
But the hole that it leaves in its absence can make you feel so low
And I was glad that it didn't destroy you
How sad that would be
Cause if it destroyed you
It would destroy me
Early in the mornin', just before the dawn
I turn my t.v. on and watch the fuzz
The sun scrapes away the first layers of the day
Nothing is meant; this is a beautiful accident
This could be the sunrise, or I could be wrong
'cause sometimes what looks like the sunrise
Turns out to be an atom bomb
Bombs are comin' in cereal packages (2x)
Early in the morning, just before the dawn
I turn my t.v. on and watch the fuzz
I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car
Comes in colors, pink and pleasant
Glows in the dark, it's iridescent
Take it with you when you travel far
Get yourself a sweet madonna
Dressed in rhinestone, settin' on a
Pedestal of Abalone Shells
Goin' 90, I ain't scared
Cause I got the Virgin Mary
Assuring me that I won't go to hell
As logic stands you couldn't meet a man
Who's from the future
But logic broke as he appeared he spoke
About the Future
"We're not gonna make it" He explained how
the end will come - you and me were never meant
to be part of the future -
All we have is now -
All we've ever had was now
All we have is now
All we'll ever have is now
I noticed that he had a watch and hat
That looked familiar
He was me - from a dimension torn free
Of the future
"We're not gonna make it" He explained how
the end will come - You and me were never meant
to be part of the future -
All we have is now -
All we've ever had was now
All we have is now
All we'll ever have is now -
All we have is now -
And though they were sad
They rescued everyone
They lifted up the sun
A spoonful weighs a ton
Giving more than they had
The process had begun
A million came from one
The limits now were none
Being drunk on their plan, they lifted up the sun
Forcing it off with their hands
The trapdoor came undone
Above our heads it swung
The privilege had been won
Being drunk on their plan, they lifted up the sun
Yelling as hard as they can
The doubters all were stunned
Heard louder than a gun
The sound they made was love
I had forgiven you for tricking me again
But I have been tricked again -
Into forgiving you -
What is this?? Are you some kind of hypnotist??
Waving your powers around - the sun eclipse behind the cloud...
I thought I recognized your face
Amongst all of those strangers -
But I am the stranger now
Amongst all of the recognized
What is this?? Are you some kind of hypnotist??
Waving your powers around - the sun eclipse behind the cloud
(instrumental)
You can be my head
Oh, I really need one
'cause it's used all its better days
You can be my head
'cause I've ruined this one
Blasting holes where it used to be
And if it's not a big thing,
You could swap or lend me
You should stop and ask me
Be my head, and I'll be yours (2x) You can be my head
Oh, they've eaten this one
Putting swirls in this giant hole
You can be my head
'cause I can't afford to buy one
Seeking stars in its other side
And if it's not a big thing,
You could swap or lend me
You should stop and ask me
Be my head, and I'll be yours (2x)
Won't you be my head, and I'll be yours
Be my head and I'll be yours (3x)
You're sorta stuck where you are
But, in your dreams you can buy expensive cars,
or live on mars
and have it your way
And you hate your boss at your job
well in your dreams you can blow his head off
in your dreams
show no mercy
And all your bad days will end
And all your bad days will end
You have to sleep late when you can
And all your bad days will end
(repeat)
I've heard about a place, where they enlarge yer space
Don't cost ya very much, they seem to know their stuff,
they take pity on the small ones...
So I wanna go to Brainville. Let's get in
And overcome my inexperience
I wanna go to Brainville. Let's get in
And be the first one on the block that does.
They say it's the one thing everyone should have
I know it must look bad.I know I need the help
they'd take me I can tell
four fingers and a toenail...
I wanna go to Brainville. Let's get in
And overcome my inexperience
I wanna go to Brainville. Let's get in
And be the first on the block that does.
Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da
I see ya flyin' in your UFO all the time
Crash and burnin' in my backyard
It's begs and achin' all the time
I ridin' on your brainwaves
Surfin in a dream
I wish you'd save those dreams for me
I see you flyin' in your UFO all the time
I don't remember what day it was
Begs and achin' all the time
What I can't see, I surely can't believe
What I can't see, you know I can't believe
It's only natural that I can't believe
What I can't see
I've seen the birds fly,
Watched the crashing tide
Talked a million miles away
Run through open fields
Heard the words of those who kneel
Still I wondered how to steal your love
But I never could believe in me
What've I gotta do to make you see me?
Should I lay down and cry
Maybe I should just die
'cause I really can't exist if you don't see me
All those bugs buzzin' â'round 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 is busy buggin' you
Well, they fly in the air as you comb your hair
And they're splattered up and down your windshield and the headlights
Well, they bite
Yeah, they bite
But you can tell they're there
Does love buzz because that's what it does?
Well, they fly in the air as you comb your hair
And the summertime will make you itch the mosquito bites
Well, they fly in the air as you comb your hair
And they're splattered up and down your windshield and the headlights
Fly in the air, comb your hair
Flies in the air, comb your hair
I think the state of mind that I'm in
We should drop it right now
Well you've got yourself to blame
If you need these sunny days
And all those plans that I made
They're all changed by the end of the day
'Cause God fucked up when he made us
'Cause he made us so we could hate us
And the world could end in a second
Is that gash in your leg
Really why you have stopped?
â'Cause I've noticed all the others
Though they're gashed, they're still going
â'Cause I feel like the real reason
That you're quitting, that you're admitting
That you've lost all the will to battle on
Will the fight for our sanity
Be the fight of our lives?
Now that we've lost all the reasons
That we thought that we had
Still the battle that we're in
Rages on till the end
With explosions, wounds are open
Sights and smells, eyes and noses
But the thought that went unspoken
Was understanding that you're broken
Still the last volunteer battles on
Battles on
Battles on
THE OBSERVER
(instrumental)
Sermon's over, but can you feel it now?
On the ground
No, it never takes you very long (2x)
Sometimes I come home and there's a monkey
's puttin' down
He's makin' love to the hole in my head (2x)
I want to thank you
You've been the meaning of life for me
Now I can see the real me
Feelings I couldn't bear
All the things I wouldn't dare
Times I thought no one cared
Then I looked at you
You were there
Sometimes I think this has all been a dream
But I wake up to find that it's not what it seems in my mind
It's all mine
Feelings I couldn't bear
All the things I wouldn't dare
Times I thought no one cared
Then I looked at you
You were there
People don't know what the songs are about
They just sing them out like they mean
Something we never thought about
(Everyone Wants to Live Forever)
Imagination, that's the way that it seems
Man can't only live in his dreams
Oh, it seems so hard.
If I'd lived a thousand times before
And if I'm gonna live anymore
Always brings me down
Everyone wants to live forever
Thinkin' that it'd be a lot better
Everyone wants to live for ever, whoah
The feeling in my head starts heading south
It seems it stops the fever from shootin' out of my mouth
Life gushing all around
Everyone wants to live forever
Thinkin' that it'd be a lot better
Everyone wants to live forever, whoah
Well, it's midnight in a liquor store
In Texas on Halloween
Salvador Dali watches
From his window in a dream
Jesus is a rock star
who destroys all he sees
Godzilla is a cowboy
Who is dressed up as a queen
She isn't as depressed as she used to be
Come on over here, my dear
Well, I hold my head real still
So I can't see very far
They got all these Vietnamese
Heads stuffed into jars
They got all these things
That make them look like they're way in
They use polythene plastics
On their bods instead of skin
If I had someone to talk to
I wouldn't mind so much
But it takes so long to get there
Can't remember where I was
And I wouldn't mind to talk to you
Even if I could
The ceiling is bendin' on my telephone
Everything's gettin' weird
And my skin falls from my bones
Well it took some time
cause its a lot
God, it's a bunch
It's such a big, old, black golden buzz
And yeah it took some help
with lots of machines, the experts could tell
with their equipment pushed to the max...
And sure it seems easy now but I tell you what
We were perplexed finding the needle
in the needle's disguise
And now that it's conceived, the station has all
settled down, and I'm sort of relieved, and I'm
getting over it now...
Yeah, 'cause when I drive in my car
We put heads in jars
So take me please, take me to Mars
I wanna go where they are (2x)
I wanna go
Yeah, and if I'm lost, well I don't care
'cause I walk on endless stairs
You say it's me, I think it's you
Who can blame us for thinkin' the way we do
'cause we don't care what we are (2x)
Take me please, take me to Mars (3x)
Take me to Mars (5x)
Once in a while, the time will come
To surrender everything you have to give
Once in a while, the time will come
To surrender everything you have to give
I would have given up for you
I know they're gonna bump and collide
I'm sure there's planets wrapped up with you
I've seen them kissing out in the hallway
Once in a while, the zebras run
To the spaceman and his gun, in the spider's web
Once in a while, the zebras run
To the spaceman and his gun, in the spider's web
I would have given up for you
I know they're gonna bump and collide
I'm sure there's plannets wrapped up with you
I've seen them kissing out in the hallway
(Autopsy of the Devil's Brain)
You have to be joking
They wouldn't do what you said
Oh, my vision is blurred again
You have to be kiddin' me
They wouldn't do those unspeakable things
Oh, my Jesus
It's worse than you think
Stood here in the morning
Got no science to explain
Seems to me that God and the devil
Are both the same
You have to be lyin'
They wouldn't do what you told me about
Oh, my vision is blurred again (2x)
Asked you a question
I didn't need you to reply
Is it gettin' heavy?
But they'll realize
Is it gettin' heavy?
Well I thought it was already as heavy
As can be
Is it overwhelming
To use a crane to crush a fly?
It's a good time for Superman
To lift the sun into the sky
'Cause it's gettin' heavy
Well I thought it was already as heavy
As can be
Tell everybody
Waitin' for Superman
That they should try to hold on
Best they can
He hasn't dropped them
Forgot them
Or anything
It's just too heavy for Superman to lift
Is it gettin' heavy?
Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be.
Tell everybody
Waitin' for Superman
That they should try to hold on
Best they can
He hasn't dropped them
Forgot them
Or anything
It's just too heavy for Superman to lift
Sometimes I don't know what to think about the world
When this guy is burnin' up in the street with gasoline
And the flames show no mercy
So when you really need someone to talk to you
It doesn't always work like it's supposed to
You can love yer brain
Even if it slips down the drain
Man, I'm not no drug addict
But a person's gotta have something
To keep him from going insane
Well, this man kills this other man
Who's killed this other man, so it's okay
And this fourteen year old's sittin' in the electric chair
Smilin' and smokin' a cigarette
So I guess I was right all along readin' Mad magazine
My long hair it blows, in the industrial breeze.
My fingernails grow, down to my knees.
The light that's beside me, is just laves of beans.
All that I know, is not what it seems.
Cause I've tried moving out,
But I'm tied to this floor.
It's just like before.
It's the red of the world, that you see with your eyes.
You say that you're happy, when you're wanting to die.
Oh well, it's just like before.
Oh well, it runs in your veins.
Just like before.
It keeps it the same.
Cause I've tried moving out,
But I'm tied to this floor.
It's just like before.
Well, the sun's in the sky, it swings and it sways.
But it don't shine on Tuesdays, and it's cloudy all day.
It's just like before.
Oh, when it runs in your veins.
It's just like before.
Nothing will change.
Cause I've tried moving out,
But I'm tied to this floor.
It's just like before.
Well Kim's got the answer with her watermelon gun
and all the celebrities want permission, but she won't give it to them, til they learn how to love... And Kim's got her watermelon gun, cause its the consciousness of love
And wouldn't it be dumb if all their atrocities were just forgiven
But she won't give that to them, until they learn how to love.
And Kim's got her watermelon gun, cause its the consciousness of love. She won't give it to them, she won't give it to them...
(throbbing orange pallbearers)
It's summertime - and I can understand if you
Still feel - sad -
It's summertime and though it's hard to see its true
possibilities -
When you look inside - all you'll see
When you look inside - all you'll see
Is a self-reflected inner sadness -
Look outside - I know that you'll
Recognize it's summertime
Well, I never really understood religions,
Except it seems a good reason to kill.
Everybody's got their own conceptions,
And you know, they always will.
These days are needles under my skin.
Jesus shootin' heroin.
If there are priests at your party,
And you're playing cards that are numbered,
And you got no reason to think it,
Until your chances are uncovered.
Tell me that I got to believe in,
Jesus shootin' heroin. The police in New York city,
Chased a boy, right through the park.
In a case of mistaken identities,
They put a bullet through his heart.
I met Mary, on the corner with the streetlights.
She asked me if I'd come up to her room.
I told her that I didn't have no money.
She said she had to leave pretty soon.
I decided that I would go in.
Jesus shootin' heroin.
We didn't come to negotiate
We didn't come so we could wait
We didn't come to change the world
We didn't come to fuck girls
We didn't come to see if it's true
We're not like you
Hold your head, now it's over
It's gettin' harder than it used to be
Time was slower than it used to be
We didn't come to imagine this
It's better to feel than to be like this
In the morning I'd awake and couldn't remember
What is love and what is hate? - the calculations error
Oh-oh-oh-what is love and what is hate?
And why does it matter? - is to love just a waste
How would it matter?
As the dawn began to break - I had to surrender
The universe will have its way - too powerful to master
Oh-oh-oh-what is love and what is hate?
And why does it matter? - is to love just to hate??
And how does it matter?
I got this can of gasoline, you know what I mean
I got it just for burnin' and it keeps the sirens turnin'
Turning down existence it seems to burn all by itself
I wish that something would happen just so I'd get a reaction
From all these bucks I'm earnin', it keeps the sirens turnin'
Turnin' down existence it seems to burn all by itself
And we don't care
So I just keep on smiling while all the bad compiling
My teeth are white and burning, it keeps the sirens turnin'
Her name is Yoshimi - she's a black belt in karate
Working for the city - she has to discipline her body -
Cause she knows that it's demanding to defeat these
Evil machines - I know she can beat them -
Oh Yoshimi
They don't believe me
But you won't let those
Robots eat me
Oh Yoshimi
They don't believe me
But you won't let those
Robots defeat me
Those evil natured robots - they're programmed to
Destroy us - She's gotta be strong to fight them -
So she's taking lots of vitamins - cause she knows that
It'd be tragic if those evil robots win - I know
She can beat them
When I walk with you, I feel weird.
When I talk with you, I feel weird.
When I'm standing here, I feel strange.
When you're standing near, I feel strange.
All that I know
is my mind is blown.
When I'm with you.
When I'm with you. x5
When I'm...
When you're touching me, I feel great.
When I'm touching you, hallucinate.
When I'm standing here, I feel strange.
When you're standing near, I feel strange.
All that I know
is my mind is blown.
When I'm with you.
When I'm with you. x5
When I'm...
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 the subatomic pieces come together and
unfold themselves in a second...
every single molecule is right, when
all of the subatomic pieces come together and unfold
themselves in a second.
Stuck in the perpetual motion
Dying 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 is backwards again when you try
The sound is so cute when you're 22
When you're 22
Eggs break when you walk on the scramble
You're living against the machine
The whole thing leaves
You a nothing instead of a these
The bone is cracked and the cracked eggshells fly
And your number is backwards again when you drive
The whole thing's removed when you're 22
When you're 22
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
It's potential has arrived
Looking into space, it surrounds you
Love is the place that you're drawn to
Looking into space, it surrounds you
Love is the face that you're drawn to
What is the light
That you have
Shining all around you?
Is it chemically derived?
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see 'em bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
I see skies of blue, clouds of white
The bright blessed days, and dark sacred nights
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world The colors of the rainbow
Are so pretty in the sky
It's also on the faces
Of people goin' by
I see friends shakin' hands
Sayin', ";How do you do?";
Fairies sayin', ";I love you.";
I hear babies cry, and I watch 'em grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Asked you a question
I didn't need you to reply
Is it gettin' heavy?
But then I realized
Is it gettin' heavy?
Well I thought it was already as heavy
As can be
Is it overwhelming
To use a crane to crush a fly?
It's a good time for Superman
To lift the sun into the sky
'Cause it's gettin' heavy
Well I thought it was already as heavy
As can be
Tell everybody
Waitin' for Superman
That they should try to hold on
The best they can
He hasn't dropped them
Forgot them
Or anything
It's just too heavy for Superman to lift
Is it gettin' heavy?
Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be.
Tell everybody
Waitin' for Superman
That they should try to hold on
The best they can
He hasn't dropped them
Forgot them
Or anything
It's just too heavy for Superman to lift
This man came up to me just the other day
He asked me if I'd been born again
I told him I didn't think I had
That I had been rejected
But I think hell's got all the good bands anyway
Playing this song backwards reveals the following:
Mom you fucked up when you raised me.
I don't know, i don't know, i don't know.
Mike say something.
What, I can't here you?
(screaming in the background)
Crazy eh?
Early in the mornin', just before the dawn
I turn my t.v. on and watch the fuzz
The sun scrapes away the first layers of the day
Nothing is meant; this is a beautiful accident
This could be the sunrise, or I could be wrong
'cause sometimes what looks like the sunrise
Turns out to be an atom bomb
Bombs are comin' in cereal packages (2x)
Early in the morning, just before the dawn
I turn my t.v. on and watch the fuzz
(Labia In The Sunlight)
when will you shut your mouth
stop all the vibrate
birds flying out of a mountain
somewhere the snow cools my fever
i just have stumps left for fingers
wonderin' can you still play guitar?
just like a baby
just like the smoke rings
labia in the sunlight
when will you stop all yours buzzing
smow crushing hummingbird
(all day)
somewhere the star burns the universe
gold eagle paints in my fingers
(all day)
can of spaghetti diseases
hopin that you can still play guitar?
just like a baby
just like the smoke rings
labia in the sunlight
labia in the sunlight
repeat 6 times
Iknow a bundle of humanity
shes about so high
im nearly driven to instantly
when she passes by
shes a sunny little honey but oh so hard to kiss
ill try to over come her vanity
and then ill tell her this
im young and healthy
and youve got charms
it would be a sin
not to have you in my arms
im young and healthy
and so are you
when the moon is in the sky
tell me what i am to do?
Mchael, it is time to wake up
Sleepy Head
It's time to wake up
You have slept too long
In the darkness of night,
And now it is time to awake
And see your girlfriend...
What a fright...
If I'm standin' on your mountainside
And I'm flyin' through your trees
We're all drivin' our own heads now
And I'm blessin' all your screed
And I'm flyin' through your mountainside
Dyin' in your plane crash of love
If I'm drivin' down your highway
And I'm crashin' in your dreams
We're all drivin' our own heads now
All your lights are never green
And I'm drivin' down your highway
Crashin' through your windsheild of love
And if I'm standing on your mountainside
And I'm crashin' through your dreams
We're all drivin' our own heads now
And all your bathroom floors are clean
And I hold your electric toaster while
Standin' in your bathtub of love
And I'm flyin' through your mountainside
Dyin' in your plane crash of love
Something in you, it jitters like a moth
And I see that your arms are out to God
And oh, they kill you when they talk
It makes a mountain peak seem little when it's not
Your incubator is so tight (2x)
I've been born before, I'm pretty used to it
Brain-dead is always all there is
So embryonic it's all right (2x)
I've been born before, I'm gettin' used to it
Brain-dead is how it always ends
Well, we're standin' in the kitchen
And we're cookin' us some chicken
And the house is burnin' down
And we don't really care
See the children of the dealers
They're all kissin' their dead daddies
And their eyes are seein' backwards
They can't hear but they can sigh
Exploding butterflies hit and run
E*** K****** jumped the gun
Well, as far as I'm concerned
They all do it 'cause they wanna
So don't come around my backyard
Smokin' marijuana
This man was walking, down by the curb,
He had lost his saddle in the mud.
This guy was crying, tears from his eyes,
Part of his body was paralyzed.
I thought it was a dream.
Strangest thing I've seen.
O'er and o'er and over, 'til I think I don't exist.
So I went up to him, and asked him what
He was doing, and who he was.
He said his memory had been dilluted,
He said he once was electrocuted. I thought it was a dream.
Strangest thing I've seen.
O'er and o'er and over, 'til I think I don't exist.
He said he'd come from Pakistan,
Where he was beaten by a policeman.
That's why he walked, a duty crawl.
And acted like he knew it all.
I thought it was a dream.
Strangest thing I've seen.
O'er and o'er and over, 'til I think I don't exist.
Ten men stand in line
At the gates of the cemetery on Tuesday morning
They're not open today
And ten moms stand in line
At maternity ward
They're not bringin' no babies out to play
Anytime today
What's a nice girl like you doin'
Walkin' around this part of town?
See you sometime tomorrow
And ten men stand in line
Waitin' for some personality to be put out on the corner
Today ain't garbage day
Ain't no grabage taken today
I just don't want them to say,
";Oh, it's a beautiful day.";
Let's just not talk about the gloom.
Let's all go die in my living-room.
I want to be a movie-star,
And play the part of a man from outer-space.
When we meet, I'll fall in love with you.
And we have sex, but I don't know what to do (what to do).
I want to hear some band play,
A song that sounds just like you look.
And when they play, I'll follow them around,
Cause all I'd do is stare at the sound.
I'd just stare at the sound.
I'd just stare at the sound.
I'd just go.
Come on.
Hey.
What?
All that I know
is my mind is blown.
When I'm with you.
When I'm with you. x5
When I'm...
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
Driving home, the sky accelerates
And the clouds all form a geometric shape
And it goes fast
You think of the past
Suddenly everything has changed
Putting all the clothes you've washed away
And as you're folding up the shirts you hesitate
Then it goes fast
You think of the past
And suddenly everything has changed
I'm gonna raise a fuss
I'm gonna raise a holler
About workin' all summer
Just-a trying to earn a dollar
Every time I call my baby
And ask her to date
My boss says ";Uh duh son you gotta work late";
Sometimes I wonder
What I'm-a gonna do
But there ain't no cure
For the summertime blues
Well my mama papa told me
";Son, you gotta make some money";
If you wanna use the car
To go ridin' next Sunday
Well, I didn't go to work
So my pa said I was sick
";You can't use the car
'Cuz you didn't work a lick";
Sometimes I wonder what l'm-a gonna do
But there ain't no cure for the summertime bluesI'm going to take your wish
Gonna have a fine vacation
l'm gonna take my problem
Through the United Nations
Well I called my congressman
And he said to woe
";l'd like to help you son
But you're too young to vote";
Sometimes I wonder what l'm-a gonna do
But there ain't no cure
For the summertime blues
She is death,
All of the time.
She is death,
All of the days.
She is death,
And I can't leave
From her trap.
She is death,
All of the time.
She is death,
All of the days.
She is death.
And I can't leave
From her trap.
(Jesus Song No. 5)
Waitin' for my ride
Jesus is floatin' outside
(Shine on, sweet Jesus, on me)
Watchin' the water rise
I'm gettin' lost in the tide
(Cry all your teardrops on me)
While I'm still myself,
Your blankets covered me
Covered me while I was still asleep
Watchin' the planets shine
Reflecting yourself in the sky
(Shine on, sweet Jesus, on me)
Scraping these smiles of mine
Impossible one at a time
(Cry all your teardrops on me)
While I'm still myself,
Your blankets covered me
Covered me while I was still asleep Jesus is at my side,
Wondering what he will find
(Shine on, sweet Jesus, on me)
Watchin' the water rise
I'm gettin' lost in the tide
(Cry all your teardrops on me)
While I'm still myself
Your blankets covered me
Covered me while I was still asleep
This song has no lyrics.
It's all a waste of time again
She used to mow the lawn
She always wasted everyone
She always turned me on
Now she's turned a kind
That isn't so much in demand
And all us vegetables
Can waste our time on someone else
She had a cool invisible
Dog that she called Paul
We'd always sit around her house
Watchin' her feed the dog
Now she's got a man
Who don't like dogs, who just likes cars
She's just got a job
'cause times got hard, so Paul is gone
Now she's turned a kind
That isn't so much in demand
All us vegetables
Can waste our time on someone else
It's all a waste of time again (4x)
We got a gorilla and we shaved him
And bought him a motorcycle
I swear if God only let us, we would change it
We don't care that much now
i know a girl who thinks of ghosts
she'll make ya breakfast
she'll make ya toast
she don't use butter
she don't use cheese
she don't use jelly
or any of these
she uses vaseline
vaseline
vaseline
i know a guy who goes to shows
when he's at home and he blows his nose
he don't use tissues or his sleeve
he don't use napkins or any of these
he uses magazines
magazines
magazines
magazines
magazines
i know a girl who reminds me of cher
(reminds me of cher)
she's always changing
(she's always changing)
the color of her hair
(color of her hair)
she don't use nothing
that ya buy at the store
she likes her hair to be real orange
she uses tangerines
tangerines
tangerines
tangerines
tangerines
tangerines
In this bogus town we ain't got nothing to do.
Everybody's pretty cool, hate to stoop.
Thinking they're great, some new kind of drug.
They got their wires pulled out, tell ya man they're unplugged.
They're unplugged.
Everybody here is a mental case.
Their eyes are staring out into space.
Try to talk to them and I really get burned.
Nobody's home, I tell ya man they're unplugged.
They're unplugged.
There's too many dumb-fucks.
Man, it really sucks.
Spending all their bucks.
They're all unplugged, in their heads. Come on.
In their heads.
Sick!
You can walk among us, but you can't walk on by
You just keep on bleedin' on your clothes as they dry
All your teflon pancakes always make me too high
You're thinkin' that you're here but you're really up in the sky
There she was just walkin' down the street
Smoking with her hands and walking with her feet
Keeping her paint cans underneath the seat
Keepin' her hair dryer on her favorite piece of meat
You can crush the flowers
But you can't stop the spring
No matter what you say
So you can put the clouds up in your own little way
But the sun is gonna come up the very next day
It's gonna be so bright it's gonna blow you away
And once it's over your head will never be the same
The seance has just been told,
The slaughter has just been sold,
To some people who won't get old,
Cause their skin is getting cold.
The room that's in the back,
That's where I lost it all.
In the room that's in the back,
Let's go have a ball.
Cause I'm slipping into the Charlie Manson Blues.
I'm a stupid dressed Jesus son.
I'm slipping into the Charlie Manson Blues.
I'm a stupid dressed Jesus son.
Head burning up, chain-smoking,
Everybody here is choking.
Shrunken heads are joking,
And new-born skull is broke. And the room that's in the back,
Is where I lost it all.
In the room that's in the back,
Let's go have a ball.
Cause I'm slipping into the Charlie Manson Blues.
I'm a stupid dressed Jesus son.
I'm slipping into the Charlie Manson Blues.
I'm a stupid dressed Jesus son.
Cause I'm slipping into the Charlie Manson Blues.
I'm a stupid dressed Jesus son.
I'm slipping into the Charlie Manson Blues.
I'm a stupid dressed Jesus son.
Whoa, Goddammit!
Shit!
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 gost lost in the crowd
cus i'm drunk all the time
i like your helium voice
CHORUS
there was a guy in the seat next to mine
watchin the girls when the cops made us stand in line
yea, so if its sad
well you still gotta live till ya die
man, everyone's chewin the apple you got in your eye
it like at the circus
when you get lost in the crowd
your happy but nervous
definite sign that you lost it
CHORUS
Their wasn't any snow on Christmas eve and I knew what I
should do, I thought I'd free the animals all locked up at the zoo
I opened up the fence where the peacocks were, the lamas were
unleashed the snakes and seals could all get out, but they
Refused to leave....
All of the animals agreed they're not happy at the zoos
But they preferred to save themselves, they seemed to think
they could...
The elephants, orangutans, all the birds and kangaroos all said
thanks but no thanks man, but to be concerned is good...
It started to snow on Christmas Eve in the middle of the night
walkin through the state park zoo and everything is white...
If all my dreams were a tidal wave
And every day was Christmas
We could spend our lives in the drip
At the edge of the world
Cause love does things that you can't see
It's like telepathic surgery
And cuts and scrapes just like Iggy Pop thrown in a hole
If you take away my nerves
And leave just my words
Love would be the best thing in the world
You and me in a chrome reflection
We were born to suffer some
Please don't chase me from this jail
You know it looks so nice
If all my dreams were a microwave
And every day was summer
When I feel this way, you know
We should start our own religion
If you take away my nerves
And leave just my words
Love would be the best thing in the world
And if you take away my pain
Please don't leave my brain
Cause when I think it hurts just the same
Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun don'-go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do You Realize - Oh - Oh - Oh
Do You Realize - that everyone you know
Someday will die -
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun don'-go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize
Every time that we fly together
Our plane blows up in the sky
We're workin' in an explosives factory
Cause we don't care if we die
Everything, everything, everything that I wish
Give us a 20th century Jesus guy
And he could make us rich
You've known me for a million years
And I've been chewed up by all your gears
I don't wanna be no one else
I like it here, 'cause I like hell.
I was waiting on a moment
But the moment never came
All the billion other moments
Were just slipping all away
I must have been tripping
Just ego tripping
I was wanting you to love me
But your love it never came
All the other love around me
Was just wasting all away
I must have been tripping
Just ego tripping
I was waiting on a moment
But the moment never came -
But the moment never came -
Boy, you play so loud that you could wake the dead
And some of the living, they're wakin' too
When I look outside and these worlds collide
And sends shit flyin' everywhere
And everything's explodin'
And these cars are crashin' and everybody's happy
Everything's explodin'
And these cars are crashin' yeah
When I look in my mirror and my brains are fallin' out
Of my head...
Well, there's nothing wrong, it's just the way I feel
And if you don't like it, write your own song
With Loving hands and their arms are stretched so wide they can't
seem to take a breath knowing evil will prevail, and a million people
seems
like a lot, and a million people can't be wrong...
With loving smiles, and their mouths are stretched so wide they can't
even
take a breath, knowing evil will prevail, and the magic bullet is the
glowing mother ship, and the mother zaps you dead...
with loving hands knowing evil will prevail
knowing evil will prevail
knowing that evil will prevail
knowing evil will prevail
knowing that evil will always win...
(screaming)
(Everyone Wants to Live Forever)
Imagination, that's the way that it seems
Man can't only live in his dreams
Oh, it seems so hard.
If I'd lived a thousand times before
And if I'm gonna live anymore
Always brings me down
Everyone wants to live forever
Thinkin' that it'd be a lot better
Everyone wants to live for ever, whoah
The feeling in my head starts heading south
It seems it stops the fever from shootin' out of my mouth
Life gushing all around
Everyone wants to live forever
Thinkin' that it'd be a lot better
Everyone wants to live forever, whoah
Magnified up close, in pickle jar
is the last hope the world has... Yeah ... Yeah
Thinkin that his head surely would explode
His thoughts go deeper than ever... yeah... yeah
Something never dreamed in all the science books the biggest light switch gets turned on yeah.. yeah
And he's on the way to a real first in all the universe yeah.. yeah
He saves the day and the world knows, the sonic boom explodes
Hesitant to tell the real reason, the Nobel Prize is given-Yeah-
It's hard to celebrate with a headache Oh Yeah... Yeah
And he's on the way to the real first in all the universe Yeah... Yeah
And he saves the day and the world knows. Now watch his head explode
Go, people wanna know
All the pleasures of
I've got my favorite place
You know just what to say
Hit me like the first time
All of your friends go there
They're not like me
I got my favorite place
You know just what to say
Kill me like you did the first time
Come on now (3x)
Hit me like the first time Mount this heavy snow
It's warm like a winter coat
That's my favorite place
'cause you know just what to say
Kiss me like you did the first time
Come on now (8x)
oh god
has she always lived here?
(I think she has)
oh god
has she always looked like that?
(I think she has)
oh god
god, has she forgot me?
(I think she has)
oh god
has she joined the army?
(I think she has)
oh god
has she left here?
(I think she has)
in her grown up years
in her pilot years
(yes she has)
like she came from outerspace
oh god
has she turned queer?
(yes she has)
in her grown up years
in a pilot dream
(yes she has)
like she came from outer space
and now she's got helicopters
(yes she has)
repeat 5 times
Unit three thousand twenty one is warming
Makes a humming sound - when its circuits
Duplicate emotions - and a sense of coldness detaches
As it tries to comfort your sadness -
One more robot learns to be something more than
A machine - when it tries the way it does - make it seem
Like it can love -
Cause it's hard to say what's real - when you know the
Way you feel - is it wrong to think it's love
When it tries the way it does...
Feeling a synthetic kind of love
Dreaming a sympathetic wish -
As the lights blink faster and brighter -
One more robot learns to be something more than
A machine - when it tries the way it does - make it seem
Like it can love -
Cause it's hard to say what's real - when you know the
Way you feel - is it wrong to think it's love
When it tries the way it does...
Two scientists were racing
For the good of all mankind
Both of them side by side ( <--- Previously had 'the' instead of 'them')
So Determined
Locked in heated battle
For the cure that is their prize
But it's so dangerous
But they're determined
Theirs is to win
If it kills them
They're just humans
With wives and children
Upwards to the vanguard
Where the pressure is too high
Under the microscope
Hope against hope
Forging for the future
But to sarcrifice their lives
Both of them side by side
So determined
Theirs is to win
If it kills them
They're just humans
With wives and children
Theirs is to win
It will kill them
They're just humans
With wives and children
Cat killing dogs, pigs eating rats
every mouth will eat you up the king bug laughs
Belly of the heart Belly full of bats
the chromosomes seem not to want the fetus...
they beat you up
they make you leave
sticking needles in your knees
knowing God will be pleased
should make it easy
Snakes eating frogs, toads eating gnats
when the space ship beams you up boy, get drunk fast
Rubber bullet barn, titty suckin calf-
goats and roosters Bees and bugs Amoebas!!
They blow you up, make it breath
make it feel like a disease
and though its hard to believe it makes it easy.
I been wandering for quite a while
When it seems like love is all around
Seems when people can't get love
They substitute it with a bunch of drugs
If love was a drug that was real cheap
Everybody could get some sleep
I been wandering for quite a while
When it seems like love is all around
Seems when love don't get to far
They buy a real expensive car
If love was a car that was real cheap
Everybody would drive a jeep
Let's give love the marketing scam
Let's give love the marketing scam
Make it something they can understand
Let's give love the marketing scam
Let's give love the marketing scam
And get on with it I've been wandering for quite a while
When it seems like love is all around
Seems when people don't have nobody
They spend their time makin' lots of money
If love was money and it was cheap
Everybody could get some sleep
Where does outer space end
it's sort of hard to imagine
is it real? Is it nothin, nothin?
Cause it's not so clear anymore to me...,
Why do birds always fly south
when sometimes its warm in yer headwound
is that nothin? Nothin?
Cause its not so clear anymore to me...
And if God hears all my questions
well how come there's never an answer?
Is it nothin, nothin?
The daylight rips at my naked thoughts
A hundred miles an hour
But I'm still lost right now
We think we know just who we are
But sometimes I think we've gone too far
Right now ... right now
In my head all my engines die
And it's scraping pieces out of the sky right now
Once I thought I had figured it out
In dream I knew what it was all about
My life and times are lyin' on the floor
I ain't never walkin' through there no more
And I'm walking down this highway
I don't know the year, I don't know the day
I'm draggin' everybody down
But being healthy's just a big drag anyway
I'm startin' to reconsider things
I'm gonna live like a trucker without his uppers every day
Me and mom sit and talk all night about
Peace and love and politics
And the millionaires we'll be someday
My momma told me something once
She told me something, I forget what it was
Ronny Van Zandt's ghost lives inside of me
But he just sits there
I don't know what he does
I'm leaving everything behind
Except my mind and my valentine if I got time
Gonna go to some redneck town where
They hold class in the middle of the night
If my school had burned to the ground
I would've gotten smarter sooner
And you know that's right.
What I'm thinkin' is so delicate
If I breathe, you know, I'm gonna lose it
It's just a drop in the biggest ocean I know I've ever seen
And in a moment it's big enough to drown the whole world
This is my present to the world
And I want you to take it
This is my present to the world
Take it from me, please please take it from me
All I know is I don't know it
It's rainin' babies from the sky down on me
Tiny drops on my windshield
And in a second it's rainin' rainin' all over the whole world
Two scientists were racing
For the good of all mankind
Both of the side by side
So Determined
Locked in heated battle
For the cure that is their prize
But it's so dangerous
But they're determined
Theirs is to win
If it kills them
They're just humans
With wives and children
Upwards to the vanguard
Where the pressure is too high
Under the microscope
Hope against hope
Forging for the future
But to sarcrifice their lives
Both of them side by side
So determined
Theirs is to win
If it kills them
They're just humans
With wives and children
Theirs is to win
It will kill them
They're just humans
With wives and children
I didn't care when that guy ripped us off
We borrowed a gun to get him, we were so pissed off
We shot his leg. He was a dick, anyway
It felt good to burn. Felt like a movie star
When you hold my slippery brain
Kiss my forehead
All summer long we refused to die
We just sucked and fucked and got high
And all we'd steal. We lit up on the Ferris wheel Felt good to burn. Felt like a movie star
When you hold my slippery brain
Kiss my forehead
And all your dreams, and oh, God blessed your soul
I saw you were holdin' your head
But we couldn't have been dead
'cause you stood up and moaned and said,
";I wasn't wavin' goodbye, I was sayin' hello.";
Love in our life is just too valuable
Oh, to feel for even a second without it
But life without death is just impossible
Oh, to realize something is ending within us
Feeling yourself disintegrate
Well, the retards laughed
When the evening came
The 'librium makes them
All the same
And boy, you still got
Shit for brains
It's Halloween on the coast again
Well the clowns roll in
And the line never ends
We get the last part
We get the bends
And the bends always last
Till the blast
And they sucked us down in the hole again And it's Halloween on the Barbary Coast
Well, the mothers smiled
When the morning came
Under the Christmas tree
They looked all the same
And boy, you still got
Shit for brain
And it's Halloween all over again
Magnified up close, in pickle jar
is the last hope the world has... Yeah ... Yeah
Thinkin that his head surely would explode
His thoughts go deeper than ever... yeah... yeah
Something never dreamed in all the science books the biggest light switch gets turned on yeah.. yeah
And he's on the way to a real first in all the universe yeah.. yeah
He saves the day and the world knows, the sonic boom explodes
Hesitant to tell the real reason, the Nobel PEACE Prize is given-Yeah-
It's hard to celebrate with a headache Oh Yeah... Yeah
And he's on the way to the real first in all the universe Yeah... Yeah
And he saves the day and the world knows. Now watch his head explode
This is an old Godzilla flick,
This is an old Godzilla flick.
People that you love,
are never going to say ";hello"; again.
And it's only in the movies.
This is an old Godzilla flick.
This is an old Clint Eastwood flick.
People that you love,
shouldn't take the life out of themselves.
And it's only in the movies.
This is an old Godzilla flick.
This is an old Godzilla flick.
This is an old Godzilla flick.
And no this time I think it's really it.
And it's only in the movies.
(Jesus Song No. 6)
How does it feel to be breakin' apart
Breakin' down molecules
How does it feel to out of control
Another ring around this ball
Used to be all right
But things got strange
How does it feel to be fallin' apart
Sinkin' from the bottom down
It's not so easy holdin' it up
With everything fallin' down
Used to be all right
But things got strange
Used to take all night
But things've changed and God walks among us now
Used to be all right
But things got strange
Used to be uptight
But things've changed and God walks among us now
How does it feel to be fallin' apart
With everything breakin' down
How does it feel to be fallin' apart
Imagine how holdin' on
(The Astrology of a Saturday)
I've seen sunrise the size of my head
It freaks you up like ghouls from the dead
I feel like I'm ready to run thru your room
It's gonna be another gingerale afternoon
And I'm feelin' like
I'm leavin' much too soon
Got a pocket full of capsules and some chocolate ice cream
Both make me cool but one makes me dream
I feel like I'm ready to race through your room
It's gonna be another gingerale afternoon
And I'm feelin' like
I'm leavin' much too soon
There you are
Infected with the water strain
Wash your car
Fish and thoughts come screaming down like rain
There you are
Wash your hands and wash your face
Water's gone
It's vaporized and gone to outer space
I'm lookin' at the sky
I'm waitin' on the rain
I'm waitin' for the frogs to fall
Down on me
I was born the day they shot JFK
The way you look at me sucks me down the sidewalk
Somebody please tell this machine I'm not a machine
My hands are in the air
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
I was born the day they shot John Lennon's brain
And all my smiles are gettin' in the hate generation's way
Tell 'em I'm gonna go out, shoot somebody in the mouth
First thing tomorrow
My hands are in the air
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
I was born the day they shot a hole in the Jesus egg
Now the rain, it's all so random
What does free will have to do with it at all?
And you can't cry, but
It really don't matter, y'end up cryin' anyway.
My hands are in the air
And that's where they always are
You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't
Five stop mother superior rain
I 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
I got yer letter it had turned to sand, lighting strikes the postman in
his hand, I hope that you remember the things you had to say, it's just
a supernatural delay... I got yer package it was all a mess, lightning strikes
the postman in his chest, I hope that you remember the things you
had to
say, it's just a supernatural delay...
I sent you a postcard and I hope yer fine
But lightning strike the postman all the time
I couldn't really think of anything to say
It's just a supernatural delay,
And it's hard to read the writing through the flames...