The Ego's Last Stand Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Johnde08 

Cover art for The Ego's Last Stand lyrics by Flaming Lips, The

This song is amazing. In conjunction with the song preceding this on the album (powerless), I suspect the band may be going through addiction recovery. They still can, however, write in such a cryptic way that many listeners will have entirely different interpretations of these lyrics.

The engineering of this album, the strange sounds weaving from right headphone to left, ebbing in, out, in out, are magical and wonderful, and this song exemplifies this effect.