The Flaming Lips are an American rock Rock music band, formed in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , Oklahoma in 1983.
The band is known for their lush, multi-layered, psychedelic psychedelic rock arrangements, spacey space rock lyrics and bizarre song and album titles—for example, "Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles", "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)"... [read more] - Charlie Manson Blues
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...
- Staring At Sound/With You (Reprise)
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,...
- Jesus Shootin' Heroin
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...
- Godzilla Flick
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...
- Man From Pakistan
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...
- Trains, Brains And Rain
This is the last song ever writtenAbout 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...
- Just Like Before
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...
- She Is Death
She is death,All of the time.She is death,All of the days. She is death,And I can't leaveFrom her trap. She is death,All of the time.She is death,All of the days. She is death.And I can't leaveFrom her trap.
- Summertime Blues
I'm gonna raise a fussI'm gonna raise a hollerAbout workin' all summerJust-a trying to earn a dollarEvery time I call my babyAnd ask her to dateMy boss says ";Uh duh son you gotta work late";Sometimes I wonderWhat...
- Evil Will Prevail
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 peopleseemslike a lot, and a million people can't be wrong...With loving smiles, and...
- Brainville
I've heard about a place, where they enlarge yer spaceDon'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 inAnd overcome my inexperienceI...
- They Punctured My Yolk
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 gravityNow...
- Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
Magnified up close, in pickle jaris the last hope the world has... Yeah ... YeahThinkin that his head surely would explodeHis thoughts go deeper than ever... yeah... yeahSomething never dreamed in all the science...
- Lightening Strikes The Postman
I got yer letter it had turned to sand, lighting strikes the postman inhis hand, I hope that you remember the things you had to say, it's justa supernatural delay... I got yer package it was all a mess, lightning...
- Kim's Watermelon Gun
Well Kim's got the answer with her watermelon gunand 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...
- This Here Giraffe
I saw this bird fly off his headwithout him ever lookin up this here giraffe was never caught complaininhe wouldn't take skin off yer back.And ya hear yerselfthinkinand ya hear yerselfthinkingthis here giraffe,...
- The Abandoned Hospital Ship
Well it took some timecause its a lotGod, it's a bunchIt's such a big, old, black golden buzzAnd yeah it took some helpwith lots of machines, the experts could tellwith their equipment pushed to the max...And sure it...
- Bad Days
You're sorta stuck where you areBut in your dreams you can buy expensive carsOr live on MarsAnd have it your wayAnd you hate your boss at your jobWell, in your dreams you can blow his head offIn your dreamsShow no...
- When You Smile
It's like I never had to see it in your eyes or feel itI could tell when you smile.It's like I didn't need to say anything or do much, I could tellwhen you smileAll of the subatomic pieces come together andunfold...
- Psychiatric Exploration Of The Fetus With Needles
Cat killing dogs, pigs eating ratsevery mouth will eat you up the king bug laughsBelly of the heart Belly full of batsthe chromosomes seem not to want the fetus...they beat you upthey make you leavesticking needles in...
- Placebo Headwound
Where does outer space endit's sort of hard to imagineis it real? Is it nothin, nothin?Cause it's not so clear anymore to me...,Why do birds always fly southwhen sometimes its warm in yer headwoundis that nothin?...
- Christmas At The Zoo
Their wasn't any snow on Christmas eve and I knew what Ishould do, I thought I'd free the animals all locked up at the zooI opened up the fence where the peacocks were, the lamas wereunleashed the snakes and seals...
- It's Summertime (Throbbing Orange Pallbearers)
it's summertimeand i can understand if you still feel sadit's summertimeand though it's hard to see its true possibilitieswhen you look insideall you'll seewhen you look inside all you'll seeis a self-relfected inner...
- All We Have Is Now
As logic stands you couldn't meet a manWho's from the futureBut logic broke as he appeared he spokeAbout the Future"We're not gonna make it" He explained howthe end will come - you and me were never meantto be part of...
- Are You A Hypnotist??
I had forgiven you for tricking me againBut 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...
- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 2
(screaming)
- Do You Realize?
Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful faceDo You Realize - we're floating in space -Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cryDo You Realize - that everyone you know someday will dieAnd instead of...
- In The Morning Of The Magicians
in the morning i'd awakeand i couldn't rememberwhat is love and what is hatethe calculations erroroh-oh-oh-what is love and what is hateand why does it matteris to love just a wastewhy does it matteroh-oh-ooh-???as...
- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1
Her name is Yoshimi - she's a black belt in karateWorking for the city - she has to discipline her body -Cause she knows that it's demanding to defeat theseEvil machines - I know she can beat them -Oh YoshimiThey...
- Fight Test
i thought i was smarti thought i was righti thought it better not to fighti thought there was a virtue in always being coolso when it cam time to fight i thought thought i'll just step asideand that time would prove...
- Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)
(Strange talking and screaming)
- One More Robot - Sympathy 3000-21
Unit three thousand twenty one is warningMakes a humming sound - when its circuitsDuplicate emotions - and a sense of coldness detachesAs it tries to comfort your sadness -One more robot learns to be something more...
- Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
I was waiting on a momentbut the moment never cameall the billion other momentswere just slipping all awayi must have been trippingjust ego trippingi was wanting you to love mebut your love it never cameall the other...
- Thanks To You
I want to thank youYou've been the meaning of life for meNow I can see the real meFeelings I couldn't bearAll the things I wouldn't dareTimes I thought no one caredThen I looked at youYou were there Sometimes I think...
- Love Yer Brain
Sometimes I don't know what to think about the worldWhen this guy is burnin' up in the street with gasolineAnd the flames show no mercySo when you really need someone to talk to youIt doesn't always work like it's...
- One Million Billionth Of A Milisecond On A Sunday Morning
Early in the mornin', just before the dawnI turn my t.v. on and watch the fuzzThe sun scrapes away the first layers of the dayNothing is meant; this is a beautiful accidentThis could be the sunrise, or I could be...
- The Ceiling Is Bending
Well, it's midnight in a liquor storeIn Texas on HalloweenSalvador Dali watchesFrom his window in a dreamJesus is a rock starwho destroys all he seesGodzilla is a cowboyWho is dressed up as a queen She isn't as...
- Ode To C.C. Part Two
This man came up to me just the other dayHe asked me if I'd been born againI told him I didn't think I hadThat I had been rejectedBut I think hell's got all the good bands anyway
- Ode To C.C. Part One
Playing this song backwards reveals the following: Mom you ***ed 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?
- Perscription: Love
I been wandering for quite a whileWhen it seems like love is all aroundSeems when people can't get loveThey substitute it with a bunch of drugsIf love was a drug that was real cheapEverybody could get some sleepI been...
- Maximum Dream For Evil...
Well, we're standin' in the kitchenAnd we're cookin' us some chickenAnd the house is burnin' downAnd we don't really care See the children of the dealersThey're all kissin' their dead daddiesAnd their eyes are seein'...
- Everything's Explodin'
Boy, you play so loud that you could wake the deadAnd some of the living, they're wakin' tooWhen I look outside and these worlds collideAnd sends shit flyin' everywhere And everything's explodin'And these cars are...
- Can't Exist
What I can't see, I surely can't believeWhat I can't see, you know I can't believeIt's only natural that I can't believeWhat I can't see I've seen the birds fly,Watched the crashing tideTalked a million miles awayRun...
- Can't Stop The Spring
You can walk among us, but you can't walk on byYou just keep on bleedin' on your clothes as they dryAll your teflon pancakes always make me too highYou're thinkin' that you're here but you're really up in the sky...
- Moth In The Incubator
Something in you, it jitters like a mothAnd I see that your arms are out to GodAnd oh, they kill you when they talkIt makes a mountain peak seem little when it's not Your incubator is so tight (2x)I've been born...
- *******
I don't care if it rains or freezesLong as I got my plastic JesusSittin' on the dashboard of my carComes in colors, pink and pleasantGlows in the dark, it's iridescentTake it with you when you travel farGet yourself a...
- Superhumans
Once in a while, the time will comeTo surrender everything you have to giveOnce in a while, the time will comeTo surrender everything you have to giveI would have given up for youI know they're gonna bump and...
- Slow-Nerve-Action
It's all a waste of time againShe used to mow the lawnShe always wasted everyoneShe always turned me onNow she's turned a kindThat isn't so much in demandAnd all us vegetablesCan waste our time on someone elseShe had...
- Turn It On
put your face up to the windowtell me all about your "***folks"it feels better when you in itif your nervous use the pay phoneput your face where we can see itput it on a show on cableyou can really show it all...
- She Don't Use Jelly
i know a girl who thinks of ghostsshe'll make ya breakfastshe'll make ya toastshe don't use buttershe don't use cheeseshe don't use jellyor any of theseshe uses vaselinevaselinevaselinei know a guy who goes to...
- Chewin The Apple Of Your Eye
hey what were ya thinkinwhen they were startin the showyeah, i was therebut i didn't care at alli was tryin to find youwhen you gost lost in the crowdcus i'm drunk all the timei like your helium voiceCHORUSthere was a...
- When Yer Twenty-Two
Stuck in the perpetual motionDying against the machineThe whole thing leavesYou a nothing instead of a theseThe sun is black and the black halos flyAnd your number is backwards again when you tryThe sound is so cute...
- Pilot Can At The Queer Of God
oh godhas she always lived here?(I think she has)oh godhas she always looked like that?(I think she has)oh godgod, has she forgot me?(I think she has)oh godhas she joined the army?(I think she has)oh godhas she left...
- Be My Head
You can be my headOh, I really need one'cause it's used all its better daysYou can be my head'cause I've ruined this oneBlasting holes where it used to beAnd if it's not a big thing,You could swap or lend meYou should...
- Oh My Pregnant Head
when will you shut your mouthstop all the vibratebirds flying out of a mountainsomewhere the snow cools my feveri just have stumps left for fingerswonderin' can you still play guitar?just like a babyjust like the...
- Stand In Line
Ten men stand in lineAt the gates of the cemetery on Tuesday morningThey're not open todayAnd ten moms stand in lineAt maternity wardThey're not bringin' no babies out to playAnytime todayWhat's a nice girl like you...
- What A Wonderful World
I see trees of green, red roses tooI see 'em bloom for me and youAnd I think to myself, what a wonderful world I see skies of blue, clouds of whiteThe bright blessed days, and dark sacred nightsAnd I think to myself,...
- Five Stop Mother Superior Rain
I was born the day they shot JFKThe way you look at me sucks me down the sidewalkSomebody please tell this machine I'm not a machineMy hands are in the airAnd that's where they always areYou're ***ed if you do, and...
- Rainin' Babies
What I'm thinkin' is so delicateIf I breathe, you know, I'm gonna lose itIt's just a drop in the biggest ocean I know I've ever seenAnd in a moment it's big enough to drown the whole world This is my present to the...
- Shine On Sweet Jesus (Jesus Song No. 5)
Waitin' for my rideJesus is floatin' outside(Shine on, sweet Jesus, on me)Watchin' the water riseI'm gettin' lost in the tide(Cry all your teardrops on me)While I'm still myself,Your blankets covered meCovered me...
- Unconsciously Screamin'
Seeing the unseeable,filling down the voidWe're not what we used to beWe're not really boysScreaming till our lungs are fullKicking down the teethWe're not what we used to beWe're just paranoid Unconsciously...
- Let Me Be It
Let me be itShow me how you climb the stairsLet me be itLet me see itShow me how you climb the stairsLet me see itShow me how you climb andLet me be your conscience, knowingLet me be your conscience, knowingLet me be...
- There You Are (Jesus Song No. 7)
There you areAnd you stand in the rainAnd the rain fills your brainAnd it makes you think that GodWas ***ed up when he made this town There you standWith your bleedin' handsAnd you don't understandWhy you work so...
- Mountainside
If I'm standin' on your mountainsideAnd I'm flyin' through your treesWe're all drivin' our own heads nowAnd I'm blessin' all your screedAnd I'm flyin' through your mountainsideDyin' in your plane crash of love If I'm...
- Take Me Ta Mars
- God Walks Among Us Now (Jesus Song No. 6)
How does it feel to be breakin' apartBreakin' down moleculesHow does it feel to out of controlAnother ring around this ball Used to be all rightBut things got strangeHow does it feel to be fallin' apartSinkin' from...
- Redneck School Of Technology
I'm draggin' everybody downBut being healthy's just a big drag anywayI'm startin' to reconsider thingsI'm gonna live like a trucker without his uppers every day Me and mom sit and talk all night aboutPeace and love...
- The Last Drop Of Morning Dew
I think the state of mind that I'm inWe should drop it right nowWell you've got yourself to blameIf you need these sunny daysAnd all those plans that I madeThey're all changed by the end of the day'Cause God ***ed up...
- Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (*** Led Zeppelin)
I got this can of gasoline, you know what I meanI 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...
- Shaved Gorilla
We got a gorilla and we shaved himAnd bought him a motorcycleI swear if God only let us, we would change itWe don't care that much now
- Right Now
The daylight rips at my *** thoughtsA hundred miles an hourBut I'm still lost right nowWe think we know just who we areBut sometimes I think we've gone too far Right now ... right now In my head all my engines...
- The Spontaneous Combustion Of John
It's such a shame, Johnny smokesAnd his eyes are full of fireLike the first time Captain Marvel zapped himRight between the eyes
- Chrome Plated Suicide
If all my dreams were a tidal waveAnd every day was ChristmasWe could spend our lives in the dripAt the edge of the world Cause love does things that you can't seeIt's like telepathic surgeryAnd cuts and scrapes just...
- Drug Machine In Heaven
Every time that we fly togetherOur plane blows up in the skyWe're workin' in an explosives factoryCause we don't care if we die Everything, everything, everything that I wishGive us a 20th century Jesus guyAnd he...
- Begs And Achin'
I see ya flyin' in your UFO all the timeCrash and burnin' in my backyardIt's begs and achin' all the time I ridin' on your brainwavesSurfin in a dreamI wish you'd save those dreams for me I see you flyin' in your UFO...
- Frogs
There you areInfected with the water strainWash your carFish and thoughts come screaming down like rain There you areWash your hands and wash your faceWater's goneIt's vaporized and gone to outer space I'm lookin' at...
- Felt Good To Burn
I didn't care when that guy ripped us offWe borrowed a gun to get him, we were so pissed offWe shot his leg. He was a dick, anyway It felt good to burn. Felt like a movie starWhen you hold my slippery brainKiss my...
- Halloween On The Barbary Coast
Well, the retards laughedWhen the evening cameThe 'librium makes themAll the sameAnd boy, you still gotShit for brainsIt's Halloween on the coast again Well the clowns roll inAnd the line never endsWe get the last...
- Hit Me Like You Did The First Time
Go, people wanna knowAll the pleasures ofI've got my favorite placeYou know just what to sayHit me like the first time All of your friends go thereThey're not like meI got my favorite placeYou know just what to...
- You Have To Be Joking (Autopsy Of The Devil's Brain)
You have to be jokingThey wouldn't do what you saidOh, my vision is blurred again You have to be kiddin' meThey wouldn't do those unspeakable thingsOh, my JesusIt's worse than you think Stood here in the morningGot no...
- The Sun
And the sun goes over me (6x) It'd be so kind to see your face in my doorIt wouldn't have to last very longIt'd be so kind to see your face in my doorI wouldn't have to ask anymore
- Talkin' 'Bout The Death*** Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants To Live Forever)
Imagination, that's the way that it seemsMan can't only live in his dreamsOh, it seems so hard.If I'd lived a thousand times beforeAnd if I'm gonna live anymoreAlways brings me down Everyone wants to live...
- Hold Your Head
We didn't come to negotiateWe didn't come so we could waitWe didn't come to change the worldWe didn't come to *** girls We didn't come to see if it's trueWe're not like youHold your head, now it's over It's gettin'...
- The Magician Vs. The Headache
Sermon's over, but can you feel it now?On the groundNo, it never takes you very long (2x) Sometimes I come home and there's a monkey's puttin' downHe's makin' love to the hole in my head (2x)
- Gingerale Afternoon
(The Astrology of a Saturday) I've seen sunrise the size of my headIt freaks you up like ghouls from the deadI feel like I'm ready to run thru your roomIt's gonna be another gingerale afternoon And I'm feelin' likeI'm...
- Buggin'
All those bugsBuzzin' roundWell they fly in the airAnd you comb your hairAnd the summer time will make you itch theMosquito bitesThe buzz of loveIs busy buggin' youWell they fly in the airAs you comb your hairAnd they...
- The Spiderbite Song
When you got that spiderbite on your handI thought we would have to break up the bandTo lose your arm would surely upset the brainThe poison then could reach your heard from a veinI was glad it didn't destroy youHow...
- The Gash
Is that gash in your legReally why you have stopped?Cause I've noticed all the othersThough they're gashed, they're still goingCause I feel like the real reasonThat you're quitting, that you're admittingThat you've...
- Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
Love in our life is just too valuableOh to feel for even a second without itBut life without death is just impossibleOh to realize something is ending within usFeeling yourself disintegrate Feeling yourself...
- The Observer
Instrumental
- Sleeping On The Roof
Instrumental
- A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
And though they were sad,they rescued everyoneThey lifted up the suna spoonful weighs a tonGiving more than they hadthe process had beguna million came from onethe limits now were noneBeing drunk on their plan,they...
- Waiting For A Superman
I asked you a questionI didn't need you to replyIs it getting heavy?But they realizeIs it getting heavy?Well I thought it was asalready as heavy as can beIs it overwhelmingto use a crane to crush a fly?It's a good...
- Race For The Prize
Two scientists are racingFor the cure of all mankindBoth of them side by sideSo determinedLocked in heated battleFor the cure that is their prizeBut it's so dangerousBut they're determinedTheirs is to winIf it kills...
- Slow Motion
Hey Come on overYou know the day Is going slowerIt takes a yearTo make a dayAnd I'm feeling like a floatIn a Massey's day paradeBut I could floatOut on the oceanAnd I'm drifting round in slow motionIt takes a yearTo...
- What Is The Light?
What is the lightthat you haveShining all around youIs it chemically derived?Cause if it's naturalSomething glowing from insideShining all around youIt's potential has arrivedLooking into space it surrounds youLove is...
- The Spark That Bled
I accidentally touched my headAnd noticed that I had been bleedingFor how long I didn't knowWhat was this, I thought, that struck me?What kind of weapons have they got?The softest bullet ever shot?I stood up and I...
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