It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. ![]() ![]() 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.In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. But our rebellion is simply to fight back - we have no solutions." 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. 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: 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? '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. They've got their weapons to solve all their questions, they don't know what it's for The first single from The Flaming Lips' 11th studio album finds the experimental psychedelic rockers battling evil with a magical wand. ![]() 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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