So yeah, it's kind of a protest song, but it's simultaneously making the point that protest songs don't really offer solutions, and they might be therapeutic to people writing or listening to them, but they can't really change things in and of themselves. (The Will Always Negates Defeat): (Youve got the power in there) (Waving your wand in the air) Time after time those. But our rebellion is simply to fight back - we have no solutions." Performer Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne Producer Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker, The Flaming Lips Songwriter The Flaming Lips Notes Album version from the Warner Bros. In the song, we rail against the greedy, corrupt evil beings who are in control and trying to enslave us. Youve got the power in there Waving your wand in the air Time after time those fanatical minds Try to rule all the. but the more I thought about it, the more I envied him in a way.for the evil manifestations of his mind he invented a sparkling sorcerer's baton to lead his psychic revolution.yes!!.Īnd so we delved into a kind of radical protest rock mentality.We sing, "We got the power now, motherfuckers, that's where it belongs", but I believe it's cosmically empowering - not actually empowering. it seemed to give him a confidence that allowed him to defeat his hallucinations.and at first I thought "how sad.he believes this old stick is saving him". And one day I saw him fighting an "imagined" enemy and the long stick became (as best I could tell) a kind of magic wand that made his invisible foe retreat. (Youve got the power in there) (Waving your wand in the air) Time after time those fanatical. He was, I believe, Vietnamese, and had a cool looking wizardly beard and mustache and he carried a long stick, which he used as a kind of cane-weapon. "The idea of a magic wand and magic powers occurred to me while watching a homeless guy in Oklahoma City. There's an article where Wayne Coyne goes through all the songs on the forthcoming album, and this is the relevant part of what he has to say on this track: (2006 UK limited edition 7 Picture Disc, the second single taken from their critically praised album At War With The Mystics. We're the enforcers, the sorcerer's orphans, and we know why we fight I got a plan and it's here in my hand but it's all made of rights Why can't they see it's not power, just greed, to just want more and more? ![]() They've got their weapons to solve all their questions, they don't know what it's for We've got the power now, motherfuckers, that's where it belongs I've got a tricked out magic stick that will make them all fall Bouncy clap-along 'The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song' questions how one would handle world power, while 'Free Radicals' makes a plea to suicide bombers over Prince-like funk. Telling us all it's them who's in charge of it all The Flaming Lips tackle radicals and world leaders with this pensive and playful cosmic celebration. ![]() Time after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world (You've got the power in there, waving your wand in the air
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |