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. But our rebellion is simply to fight back - we have no solutions." Why cant they see its not power, just greed, to just want more and more. In the song, we rail against the greedy, corrupt evil beings who are in control and trying to enslave us. 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. (The Will Always Negates Defeat) (usually shortened to W.A.N.D.) is a song by The Flaming Lips, featured on their 2006 album At War with. 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. Aaron Green, an intern at a major record company, has landed.
#THE FLAMING LIPS THE WAND MOVIE#
"The idea of a magic wand and magic powers occurred to me while watching a homeless guy in Oklahoma City. This song is played in the movie trailer. General CommentThere'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: 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 The idea of a magic wand and magic powers occurred to me while watching a homeless guy in Oklahoma City. 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 Telling us all it's them who's in charge of it all 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
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