It's just simple, yet extravagantly produced the song is aboutwhat happens when the slow, possibly painful journey towards death reaches death. Since it's been such a long journey, it's a peaceful song instead of chaotic or abrupt. This song is about the actual death, and in the booklet the song is subtitled with "(excerpt from "Should We Keep The Severed Head Awake?)," so I assume it's about death. But prolonged death can sometimes inspire death anxieties that laid dormant before, which in turn inspires hope, hence the beauty of the song.Īfter this is Sleeping on the Roof, which isn't listed because, it has no lyrics. As they degrade, so do you, in tiny little doses. I don't know how Wayne Coyne's dad died, but if it was long death, possibly a painful one, these lyrics are just the wearing down of the psyche as you see someone you know and love degrade in front of you. It's so perfectly described in the lyrics what that feels like that they don't need to elaborate (the angelic feel of the mood and melody don't hurt, either). The Gash leads from the inspirational battle hymn to the realization that someone you love is dying.that's why there's so few songs for such a long song. General CommentI just got the CD a few days ago, and suddenly I got this out of the last part of the CD: Because we recognize that we are, indeed, disintegrating, it encourages us to make the most of our short, yet beautiful, existence. While we constantly are "feeling disintegrate," this disintegration should not feel like an hopeless demotivator but rather a catalyst for our success. We must love everything in the world-the trees, the stars, everyone we meet-the entire experience!-because if we forget to love then we have lost the whole meaning of our lives to banality and repetition, or, worse, death. Sure, we may experience a lot of hell in our lives and this may make us seem that our lives are useless-that we should simply die already-but we must realize that our lives are valuable and the love we experience within it is the best thing a man could have. This song showed to me that regardless of the apparent bleakness of our existence, love and closeness to other people will help us get through, because with other people we realize that we are all in this together. It came at just the perfect moment in my life-when depression seemed inescapable and I lost all hope at finding happiness in the future. But despite this minute imperfection, The Soft Bulletin provides an exquisite soundtrack to have blasting in the car at night.General CommentDespite the shortness of this song, it carries so much power. The only downfall is their choice to put two alternate versions of songs at the end of the album. "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate," "Suddenly Everything Has Changed," and "A Spoonful Weighs a Ton" are equally amazing and will leave you with drool dripping from your chin. Each song is epic and inspiring - I listen in awe every time "The Spark That Bled" shoots through my ears.
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The songs are often unpredictable and full of crazy tangents. The song structures on Soft Bulletin are close to where they left off on Zaireeka (in fact, some of the songs are leftovers from the Zaireeka sessions). Wayne Coyne's distinct voice slices confidently through the mix with tales of spiders and mosquito bites. Brilliant lyrics and beautiful soundscapes shape the album into a musical orgy. Every note is perfectly crafted from the slightly reverberated guitars to the distorted mechanical drumming, The Flaming Lips have fused together the raw sound of the past with the futuristic sounds of the present. They have definitely perfected the sound that makes up the present day Flaming Lips. Zaireeka was a massive breakthrough for them, but Soft Bulletin is the true gem in their catalog. The Soft Bulletin is absolutely stunning.
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