The Flaming Lips are known for their lush, multi-layered arrangements, spacey lyrics and bizarre song titles. They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which typically feature animal suits, puppets, streamers, video projections and complex stage light configurations.
In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die". In 2006, Oklahoma City named a street Flaming Lips Alley in their honor.
The group recorded several albums and EPs for Restless Records in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a #9 hit on the Billboard Alternative charts (and #55 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart) in 1994 with "She Don't Use Jelly". Although it would be their only hit single, the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability with sonically majestic albums such as 1995's Clouds Taste Metallic, 1999's The Soft Bulletin, 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and 2006's At War with the Mystics. The Flaming Lips' 12th studio album, Embryonic, was released in October of 2009. A complete cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon was released in May 2010. The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, their collaborative album which features artists like Ke$ha, Bon Iver, Nick Cave and Erykah Badu, was released on Record Store Day, April 2012.
Their next studio album, tentatively titled The Terror, will be released in January 2013.
Their song "Do You Realize??" is the official State Rock Song of Oklahoma.
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Try to Explain
The Flaming Lips Lyrics
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Loving someone
They tell lies
They get insulted
I'm not wise
I believe what you tell them for me
I believe you
I believe you
A love that explodes
Convulsing your body
Your only hand extending in the deep
Try then walking away on a bridge to nowhere
To nowhere, to no one
Try to explain why you've changed
I don't think I'll understand
A love that explodes
Convulsing your body
Your only hand extending under the
Try then walking away on a bridge to nowhere
To nowhere, to no one
Try to explain why you've changed
I don't think I'll understand
Try to explain why you're leaving
I don't think I'll understand
The Flaming Lips's song Try to Explain speaks of the complexities and difficulties of love. The lyrics suggest that loving someone can be a wise decision, despite the fact that the person may tell lies and get insulted. The singer admits to not being wise but believes everything that is told to them. The lines "A love that explodes, convulsing your body, your only hand extending in the deep" describe the intense physical and emotional sensation of being in love. However, the song also acknowledges that walking away from a love that is no longer working can be just as intense and difficult.
The chorus repeats the line "Try to explain why you've changed, I don't think I'll understand," suggesting that the singer is struggling to come to terms with a change in the relationship. They are unable to comprehend why their partner is leaving and cannot find an explanation that will help them make sense of it. The final line of the song, "I don't think I'll understand," emphasizes the confusion and frustration of trying to make sense of a relationship that has ended.
Overall, Try to Explain is a song about the emotional complexities of love, and the difficulty of understanding your own feelings, as well as those of your partner.
Line by Line Meaning
Isn't it wise
Is it not a wise decision
Loving someone
To love another person
They tell lies
They speak untruths
They get insulted
They receive verbal attacks
I'm not wise
I am not knowledgeable
I believe what you tell them for me
I trust the information you provide on my behalf
I believe you
I have faith in what you say
A love that explodes
An intense and overwhelming type of affection
Convulsing your body
Causing physical tremors in your body
Your only hand extending in the deep
Your sole support system immersed in the unknown
Try then walking away on a bridge to nowhere
Attempting to depart from a path leading nowhere
To nowhere, to no one
Without a destination or recipient
Try to explain why you've changed
Attempt to clarify why you have undergone a transformation
I don't think I'll understand
I don't believe I will grasp your reasoning
Try to explain why you're leaving
Make an effort to illuminate why you are departing
I don't think I'll understand
I am uncertain I will perceive your rationale
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: KLIPH SCURLOCK, MICHAEL IVINS, STEVEN DROZD, WAYNE COYNE
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@esemileon
"A love that explodes convulsing your body
Your only hand extending in the deep
Try then walking away on a bridge
To nowhere, to nowhere, to no one
Try to explain why you've changed
I don't think I'll understand
Try to explain why you're leaving
I don't think I'll understand."
@dexterpower2357
Isn't it wise loving someone
They telling lies, they get insulted
I'm not wise, I believe what you tell them for me
I believed you, I believe you, I believe
A love that explodes convulsing your body
Your only hand extending in the deep
Try then walking away on a bridge
To nowhere, to nowhere, to no one
Try to explain why you've changed
I don't think I'll understand
A love that explodes convulsing your body
Your only hand extending in the deep
Try then walking away on a bridge
To nowhere, to nowhere, to no one
Try to explain why you've changed
I don't think I'll understand
Try to explain why you're leaving
I don't think I'll understand
I heard the billionth voice, the voice of endless complexity
There were no bearings, I heard them, they were me
@CorneliusDawser
This is exactly what it is about. That's what this whole album is about. The Terror of a world without love.
@AGoodJoe
One of the prettiest Lips songs I've heard in a while.
@mars48
This track is amazing. I'm riding a harvester in eastern Ohio and you won't belive how trippy it feels listening to this song on earphones.
@saintjabroni
Great comment.
@BBB8BBB
daaaaamn son
@judsonkolk
Amazing
@kennethsagers8576
im from smaller town midwest and one of my most intense headphones experiences was listening to this album walking around during a long bus layover in downtown chicago at night. the world and its people felt much smaller and yet breathtakingly monumentous, like when youre able to grasp an unfathomable object, or when the night sky is so full of stars it feels like an enormous theatre screen you could climb up and touch. the world was a tiny marble, and i was a speck on the marble. I could feel the world and its powers, the master men in their offices, with their fragile constitutions and immutable power inherited, through money and property and statehood and prestige. i thought about anarchy and change, and possible futures unknown. standing under dark towers, head pointed up and looking down at it all.
@biobuilder332
This.....This song breaks my damn heart....
@joshuamenner6404
One of my favorite songs ever in my darkest moments this lifted me ❤
@donovancollins3848
I heard the billionth voice,the voice of endless complexity, there were no bearings,I heard them, they were me.