Assassination of the Sun Lyrics

Lyric discussion by nealiok33 

Cover art for Assassination of the Sun lyrics by Flaming Lips, The

This song is about the horrible feeling you have when someone you are close to passes away. In the song, the sun is replaced by a "horrible machine" consisting of "pain instead of love", but it "looks just like the sun." Everything seems the same on the surface, but you feel that something is deeply wrong beneath the surface.