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. But our rebellion is simply to fight back - we have no solutions. The Flaming Lips tackle radicals and world leaders with this pensive and playful cosmic celebration. In the song, we rail against the greedy, corrupt evil beings who are in control and trying to enslave us. We sing, 'We got the power now, motherf-kers, that's where it belongs,' but I believe it's cosmically empowering - not actually empowering. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Flaming Lips - The w.a.n.d. (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 the Mystics. He continued: "And so we delved into a kind of radical protest rock mentality. 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,' 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. 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. "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 Will Always Negates Defeat) from The Flaming Lipss At War with the Mystics 5.1 and see the artwork, lyrics and similar. "The idea of a magic wand and magic powers occurred to me while watching a homeless guy in Oklahoma City," Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne explained in a press release. The first single from The Flaming Lips' 11th studio album finds the experimental psychedelic rockers battling evil with a magical wand.
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