| The Flaming Lips – The Spark That Bled Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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the part about accidentally touching his head and noticing that it was bleeding, and he doesn't know for how long...that seems like a metaphor for the way people have used religion over the course of human history to explain the things we can't understand. What was this, I thought, that struck me? What kind of weapons have they got? The softest bullet ever shot... |
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| The Flaming Lips – A Spoonful Weighs a Ton Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I can't believe no one's said anything about this song, other than that it's their favorite (who can blame him? Not my personal favorite, I think either Feeling Yourself Disintegrate or The Gash are my favorites at the same time). I think this is obviously just a continuation of the previous song, detailing that the scientists that were racing for the prize actually achieved it, and lifted up the sun, rescued everyone, and so on and so on. A spoonful of their medicine weighs a ton. God, this CD is too perfect. |
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| The Flaming Lips – The Gash Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Yeah, The Gash is absolutely incredible. All those voices telling you that your gash sucks, but so does every gash. But you just keep going, and battle on. You can't give up, and you certainly can't admit that you've lost all the will to battle on. |
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| The Flaming Lips – Feeling Yourself Disintegrate Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I just got the CD a few days ago, and suddenly I got this out of the last part of the CD: The Gash leads from the inspirational battle hymn to the realization that someone you love is dying...that's why there's so few songs for such a long song. It's so perfectly described in the lyrics what that feels like that they don't need to elaborate (the angelic feel of the mood and melody don't hurt, either). I don't know how Wayne Coyne's dad died, but if it was long death, possibly a painful one, these lyrics are just the wearing down of the psyche as you see someone you know and love degrade in front of you. As they degrade, so do you, in tiny little doses. But prolonged death can sometimes inspire death anxieties that laid dormant before, which in turn inspires hope, hence the beauty of the song. After this is Sleeping on the Roof, which isn't listed because, it has no lyrics. This song is about the actual death, and in the booklet the song is subtitled with "(excerpt from "Should We Keep The Severed Head Awake??)," so I assume it's about death. This is the death. Since it's been such a long journey, it's a peaceful song instead of chaotic or abrupt. It's just simple, yet extravagantly produced; the song is aboutwhat happens when the slow, possibly painful journey towards death reaches death. Then they spring Race for the Prize on you to cheer you back up, and also to inspire hope if the funeral dirge didn't (it did in me, but just thinking about it made me cry. My cat died on the roof, and likening the song to an actual death really cleaned out my system). Then there's Waitin' For a Superman, to keep people holding on while they find a new Superman to lift their sun up into the sky. Jesus Christ, if this album doesn't evoke emotion in you, you're fucking dead. |
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| The Flaming Lips – The Spark That Bled Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I never even realized that, I've been trying to figure out what the lyrics meant ever since I got the CD a few days ago...I'd never really paid attention to the lyrics in this one, but when I read 'em, it made me wonder... Thanks, that totally just increases my love for this amazing CD that much more. |
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