![]() She wants to know, since it has arrived, what is despair, what is hope, what is failure…And what is in the darkness? To them this cheerleader-type assault was really only effective if you didn’t actually have any real psychic stress…And they felt that it was, surprisingly, helpful to them to try to understand their fears and their sadness – as opposed to pretending that it’s “all good.”Īnd, you see, this is true insight… finally we know it’s okay to have a troubled mind, it’s okay to fail…Īnd so this song (which was written in the car on the way up to New York from Oklahoma while I drove and Steven played battery powered keyboard and computer) is about a young girl whose best friend has died, and everywhere she goes (like the friends I mentioned earlier) she must endure the empty optimism of the inexperienced. We have some friends whose father was dying of cancer – I say “was” because it (the cancer and his death) dragged on agonizingly for over a year – and they (our friends) were becoming, understandably, weary of being forced to be upbeat…Īnd I remember hearing a comment once about how annoying it was, to them, to have to hear this gratingly jubilant fake enthusiasm (usually hokey hyped-up pop groups like Black Eyed Peas, Destiny’s Child, Ashlee Simpson, Hillary Duff, etc.) blasting out of the “Muzak” systems virtually everywhere they went. Bush) that could make someone long for such exaggerated revenge…(Keep in mind that this is just a funny dream – these suicide bombers are clearly brainwashed religious fanaticals that are insane with their own agenda…they are beyond any pleads of reason and are not worthy of any sympathy.) And once he changes the deranged zealot’s point of view, he (Devendra) immediately sympathizes with the frustration (mostly aimed at George W. I had a dream in which Devendra Banhart (the weird singer/songwriter) is pleading with a suicide bomber (who is about to go blow up something or somebody) to change his mind. This is one of those songs that points the finger at the pettiness of those in power but also points the finger back at ourselves – what would YOU do? Power in the hands of the inexperienced (which is what we would be) is very dangerous…įREE RADICALS (A HALLUCINATION OF THE CHRISTMAS SKELETON PLEADING WITH A SUICIDE BOMBER) Steven had been recording in a separate vocal booth on his computer and I walked by and heard the crazy grouped vocals doing the “yeah yeah yeah” part and I was immediately hooked. THE YEAH YEAH YEAH SONG (WITH ALL YOUR POWER) Stream “The W.A.N.D.” ( mov, asx), the first track from The Flaming Lips’ new album At War With The Mystics, or buy it from iTunes.
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