The Flaming Lips - Flowers Of Neptune 6 Lyrics

The Flaming Lips Lyrics

"Flowers Of Neptune 6"

Yellow sun is goin' down so slow
Doin' acid and watchin' the light bugs glow
Like tiny spaceships in a row
The coolest thing I'll ever know

John's still a greaser, and
Tommy's gone off to war
James got busted, and
Doesn't give a fuck anymore

Oh my God
Why is it them?
Oh my God
Now, it's me

Orange flowers bursting into bloom
Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, the Moon

John's still a greaser, and
Tommy's gone off to war
James got busted, and
Doesn't give a fuck anymore

Oh my God
Why is it them?
Oh my God
Now, it's me

Oh my God
Why is it them?
Oh my God
Now, it's me

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Writer(s): Wayne Michael Coyne, Steven Gregory Drozd

As Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips explained, "'Flowers Of Neptune 6' track started off as a very evocative series of melodies that Steven Drozd had woven together. The first time he played it for me I was stunned by its emotional flow. The 3 sections (well, they seem like sections to me) seemed to hint at an older, mature mind reflecting back into a journey from younger innocence then starting to learn and understand and keeps going into the panic of becoming one with the world. The opening lyric [...] is a combination of blissful, innocent, psychedelic experiences that Steven and Kacey Musgraves (she sings harmony with me on the track) and myself all discussed."

The track's accompanying video was filmed in Oklahoma, USA, and directed by frontman Wayne Coyne and George Salisbury.