The Flaming Lips : At War with the Mystics

Indie Rock / USA
(2006 - Warner Music Group)
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Lyrics

1. THE YEAH YEAH YEAH SONG

If you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch
Would you do it
If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich
Would you do it
If you could watch everybody work while you just lay on your back
Would you do it
If you could take all the love without giving any back
Would you do it
And so we cannot know ourselves or what we'd really do

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do

If you could make your own money and then give it to everybody
Would you do it?
If you knew all the answers and could give it to the masses
Would you do it?
No no no no no no are you crazy?
It's a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want
Because you cannot know yourself or what you'd really do

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do


2. FREE RADICALS

You think you're so radical
I think you oughta stop
Say what
But you're going international
They're gonna call the cops
No, no, no
You're turning into
A poor man's Donald Trump
I know those circumstances
Make you wanna jump
Oh no

You think you're radical
But you're not so radical
In fact, you're fanatical
Fanatical

And you think you're a radical
But you're not so radical
In fact, you're fanatical
Fanatical

I'll tell you right now
You oughta change your mind
Yes
All of your friends are
Standing in line
They're getting tired of
You're at it too fast
Without all your bodyguards
How long would you last
Not long

You think you're radical
But you're not so radical
In fact, you're fanatical
Fanatical

And you think you're a radical
But you're not so radical
In fact, you're just fanatical
Fanatical

And you think you're a radical
But you're not so radical
In fact, you're just fanatical
Fanatical


3. THE SOUND OF FAILURE

She's starting to live her life
From the inside out
The sound of failure calls her name
She's decided to hear it out

So go tell Britney and go tell Gwen
She's not tryin' to go against all them
'Cause she's too scared and she can't pretend
To understand where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on

Standing there in the graveyard
While the moon sprays its fireworks in your hair
The sound of failure calls her name
She's decided to hear it out

So go tell Britney and go tell Gwen
She's not tryin' to go against all them
'Cause she's too scared and she can't pretend
To understand where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on
Where it begins or ends
Or what it's like to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let it go on


4. MY COSMIC AUTUMN REBELLION

They tell us autumn's a coming and soon everything around us will die
Only a fool believes that he is different from the birds in the sky
All those birds go chasing some better sunny days
You can't hear them singing because they've all gone away

But this one bird didn't leave you
It stayed through the wintertime
You can't hear it sing but you can hear it as it flies
So don't you believe them
They'll destroy you with their lies
They only see the obvious
They see the sun go down but they don't see it rise

This one bird didn't leave you
You can hear it as it flies
It's not very loud but you can hear it if you try
So don't you believe them
Yes it's true someday everything dies
We won't let that defeat us
We can't hear them singing
But we can hear it as it flies


5. VEIN OF STARS

Maybe there isn't a vein of stars calling out my name
They'll glow from above our heads
Nothing there to see you down on your knees
25, 26, 27
Back from the future maybe there ain't no heaven
There's just you and me
Maybe that's all whose left
And if there ain't no heaven
Maybe there ain't no hell

Who knows
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars calling out my name
Who knows
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars calling out my name
Who knows
Who knows

Who knows
Who knows
Calling out my name

Who knows
Who knows
Calling out my name

6. THE WIZARD TURNS ON

(Instrumental)


7. IT OVERTAKES ME

It overtakes me, It overtakes me
It overtakes me oh oh oh I
It overtakes me, It Master-Slaves me
It overtakes me oh oh oh I

It overtakes me, It overtakes me
It overtakes men oh oh oh I
It overtakes me, It Wakes and Bakes me
It overtakes me oh oh oh I

You know that it isn't real
You'll disappear in a black hole
You know that it isn't real
Floating out of control oh

It overtakes me, it overtakes me
It overtakes me oh oh oh I
It overtakes me, It Master-Slaves me
It overtakes me oh oh oh I

And I'm there, looking up at the sky
And I'm scared, thinking about the way that I
Don't understand anything at all
And how it overtakes me and I am just so small
Do I stand a chance?


8. MR. AMBULANCE DRIVER

Waiting, for the Ambulance to come
Hoping that it doesn't come too late
Hearing the sirens in the distance
Hold on help is on the way.

Mr. Ambulance Driver
I'm right here beside her
Though I live somehow I frown

Mr. Ambulance Driver
I'm not a real survivor
Wishing that I was the one that wasn't here anymore
The one that wasn't here anymore
The one that wasn't here anymore

Oh we can't trade places
Our lives are strangely our own
Mr. Ambulance Driver
Tell me
For everyone that dies
Someone new is born

Mr. Ambulance Driver
I'm right here beside her
And though I live somehow I frown

Mr. Ambulance Driver
I'm not a real survivor
Cause wishing I was the one that
Wasn't gonna be here anymore.

Mr. Ambulance Driver
Though I live
Somehow I found
Mr. Ambulance Driver
I'm not a real survivor
Cause wish I was the one that wasn't here anymore
The one that wasn't here anymore


9. HAVE N’T GOT A CLUE

You haven't got a clue
And you don't know what to do
You used your money and your friends
To try and trick me
But you won't trick me

As far as I can tell
You've created your own hell
And now you walk around this place
Expecting pity

Every time you throw a fit
I can't decide
If you're full of it
And every time you state your case
The more I want to punch your face
I go doo doo doo, doo doo doo
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo

I still can't believe
All your plastic surgeries
And now it's everybody's problem
That you're unhappy
Oh, come on!

Every time you state your case
The more I'd like to punch your face
Every time you state your case
The more I want to punch your face
And every time you state your case
The more I want to punch your face
I go doo doo doo, doo doo doo
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo


10.THE W.A.N.D.

You've got the power in there
Waving your wand in the air

Time after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world
Telling us all it's them who's in charge of it all
I've got a tricked out magic stick that will make them all fall
We've got the power now, motherfuckers; that's where it belongs

You've got that right
Power in there
You know that it's
Wand in the air

They've got their weapons to solve all their questions, They don't know what it's for
Cause they don't know what it's for
Why can't they see it's not power, just greed, to just want more and more?
(Just want more and more
I got a plan and it's here in my hand but it's all made of rights
We're the enforcers, the sorcerer's orphans, and we know why we fight
And we know why we fight

You've got that right
You've got the power in there
Waving your wand in the air

You've got the power in there
You've got the power in there
You've got the power in there
Waving your wand in the air

You've got that right
You know that it's


11. W.A.N.D

(Instrumental)


12. POMPEII AM GOTTERDAMMERUNG

Running to the station holding hands
Now the volcano is flowing red
Something there will change us into sand

Now we'll be forever holding hands
Lava and tephra will form our bed
Now the royal flames of Pompeii bless
All our senses


13. GOIN' ON

We hold our breath 'till the morning comes
And the last the sun shines through
But the night's so hard and it seems impossible
But what else can we do

Goin' on
Goin' on

Listen, you'll hear it
We're getting near it
It's gone and I can feel it
'Cause I know you are going away
Listen you'll hear it
We're getting near it
I know i really fear it
But we pretend it's just another day

Goin' on
Goin' on

We tell ourselves it's all just normal
The worst of it is gone
And you get up
And you get up
And you just cant take it
How we keep goin' on
Goin' on
Goin' on

Goin' on
Goin' on
Goin' on
Goin' on
We're goin' on


OUTTAKES


1. WHY DOES IT END?

Stars in the sky
Shining like they'd always be
Shining down on me
That's what I thought it'd be

When do they end? I don't know
Everything ends I know
You'd think the stars burn on forever
Why does it end?
Why does it end?

Your love was my life
Living like it'd always be
You here loving me
That's what I thought it'd be

Why does it end? I don't know
Everything ends I know
You'd think your love would go on forever
Why does it end?
Why does it end?

Why does it end? I don't know
Everything ends I know
You'd think that life could go on forever
Why does it end?
Why does it end?
Why does it end?


2. YOU GOTTA HOLD ON

When will you see it?
Man, it's everywhere
When will you smell it?
Man, it's in the air
When will you know it?
Only when you care

And with a lot of patience
We'll see a lot of changes
And the United Nations
Will see our love is only love
And there's nothing to be afraid of

You got to hold on
(You've got to hold on)
You got to hold on
(You've got to hold on)

(You know it won't be long)

When you will see it?
Man, it's everywhere
When you smell it?
Man, it's in your hair
When will we know it?
Man, we're already there

And with a lot of patience
We'll see our love is only love
And there's nothing to be afraid of

You got to hold on
(You've got to hold on)
You got to hold on
(You've got to hold on)


3. YOUR FACE CAN TELL THE FUTURE

I remember tracing the lines on your face
Thinking we were going to some wonderful place
Now it's taking us somewhere i know
Your face can tell the future

And the future's looking bad
And the future makes you sad
And the future comes along
And changes everything
It changes everything

And now we're living in the future
Writing on our hands
Don't forget to leave the light on
To see where we began

Now we're living in the future
Living in the land
Where experience can't help us
Now we're doing the best we can

And the future's looking bad
And the future makes you sad
And the future comes along
And changes everything
And changes everything

And now we're living the future
Writing on our hands
Don't forget to leave the light on
To see where we began
Now we're living in the future
Living in a land
Where experience can't help us
Now we're doing the best we can

Doing the best we can
But it's hard to understand
What we thought was gonna be
Well we couldn't really see
But we see it clearly now
Don't know why and I don't know how
Somehow you're losing all you have
If you're everything you need


4. THE GOLD IN THE MOUNTAIN OF OUR MADNESS

They started up the hill
With their young lives exploding still
They love to dream and run
They had the grass and the trees and the sun
They dreamed of the gold they'd find
At the top of the hill as they climbed
No one would ever doubt
Their spirit and strength would run out

But the hill was steep and long
They never thought they'd be wrong
It wasn't a hill at all
It was a mountain a thousand feet tall
But with the gold still in their thoughts
They used their young lives to climb and climb
By the time they got up to the peak
They were old and they were weak

There was no gold that they could find
It was all just in their minds
They had dreamed and they had loved
They found the grass and the trees and the sun
They said "What do we do now?"
Spend the rest of our lives climbing back down?
Or we can treasure what we find
And make it golden in our minds.


5. TIME TRAVEL?? YES!!

Time travel
And, yes
I see that time travel
Really does already exist
But not through the sciences
And through physics
But it exists through the power
Of our own words
To illuminate our own memories
And now through some
Subliminally hypnotic state of mind
One can see back
Into one's own previous life
To extract precise, minute details
And to inhabit pre-existential optimism
A time before any ability to reason
Is actually set
A time before logic covers
All the dimensions of our thinking
And if we're lucky
We can even dissolve
Back to a time of glorious superhuman
Space and time
A time when all things seem possible


6. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me
To me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I've got to go
Got to leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche
Will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning
Very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo
(Galileo) Galileo
Galileo, figaro
Magnifico
I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah!
No, we will not let you go
(Let him go!)
Bismillah!
We will not let you go
(Let hime go!)
Bismillah!
We will not let you go
(Let me go!)
Will not let you go
(Let me go!)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
Mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
For me
For me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby
Can't do this to me, baby
Just got to get out
Just got to get right out of here

Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows


RADIO SESSIONS


1. MY COSMIC AUTUMN REBELLION

(See lyrics on track 4 DISC 1)


2. GOIN' ON

(See lyrics on track 13 DISC 1)


3. UNMADE BED / NO QUARTER

(No lyrics available)


4. THE SOUND OF FAILURE

(See lyrics on track 3 DISC 1)


5. VEIN OF STARS

(See lyrics on track 5 DISC 1)


6. VEIN OF STARS (OPERATIC SPOOK)

(See lyrics on track 5 DISC 1)


7. THE YEAH YEAH YEAH SONG (CHICKEN FRIED HOEDOWN PROTEST RALLY)

(See lyrics on track 1 DISC 1)


8. THE YEAH YEAH YEAH SONG (IN ANATROPOUS REFLEX)

(See lyrics on track 1 DISC 1)


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