You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by kublip 

Cover art for You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain) lyrics by Flaming Lips, The

This song is about hearing that somebody has done something fucked up (world trade center, oklahoma city bombing, etc...) and somebody telling you the news and then just having to ask, "what? no way." And not understanding why people do such hateful and hurtful things to other people. And why God (if there is such a being) allows such things to occur.