{"id":26769,"date":"2017-01-14T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26769"},"modified":"2017-01-14T06:59:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:59:26","slug":"watch-flaming-lips-perform-the-castle-on-tonight-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-01\/watch-flaming-lips-perform-the-castle-on-tonight-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Flaming Lips Perform &#8220;The Castle&#8221; on Tonight Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alipflaming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alipflaming.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alipflaming.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alipflaming-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alipflaming-450x280.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week the flamboyant <a href=\"http:\/\/flaminglips.warnerbrosrecords.com\/OczyMlody\/\"><strong>Flaming Lips<\/strong> <\/a>performed new song <em><strong>The Castle<\/strong><\/em> on the Tonight Show. The band was a comparatively demure while performing the new song off of their new album <em><strong>Oczy Mlody<\/strong><\/em>, which was released yesterday. Leader <em><strong>Wayne Coyne<\/strong><\/em> was nonetheless was a bit bedazzled while singing the devastating ode to a female friend who took her own life (lyrics at bottom). It&#8217;s a beauty performed perfectly by the ensemble. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>About the song, <strong>Wayne Coyne<\/strong> has said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An embarrassingly pure little song.. Ha.. I say embarrassing because as I wrote it (just a couple of lines, that didn\u2019t end up in the song, and the one chorus line \u201cand the castle can never be rebuilt again.. No way..\u201d I was truly sad and I was singing and writing about this sad sad situation (a friend of ours had committed suicide) and felt like I was doing what a songwriter should do.. be real and let it flow.. Ha.. But the next day when I listened to it.. I thought it was really boring and approached the song as being about the person (who had killed themselves) instead of it (the song) being about me.. So yeah.. I\u2019m embarrassed about that part.. But I think songs work like that.. They let you get something out.. And I think this delicate whimsical song really came to life as soon as I sang (into my phone .. It was the only recording device I had in that moment) the very first lines.. \u2018Her eyes were butterflies her smile was a rainbow\u2019.. I still heard it (the song) as being very very sad and so, to me, because I was convinced of its power (the power of this sadness.. which, I think, was just me being still sad about the real life situation) it allowed me to sing these utterly silly romantic lyrics as a way of masking something horrible and brutal and fucked up and unspeakable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/flaminglips.warnerbrosrecords.com\/OczyMlody\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> to pick up the new album.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/NnzsPC\/widget\/select\/media\/PLZIOJyKYsQJ\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her eyes were butterflies<br \/>\nHer smile was a rainbow<br \/>\nHer hair was sunbeam waves<br \/>\nShining &#8217;round like a halo<br \/>\nHer face was a fairy tale<br \/>\nThat has a poison apple<br \/>\nHer skull was a mighty moat<br \/>\nHer brain was the castle<\/p>\n<p>And the castle gets mistaken for a ship that&#8217;s floating in the clouds<br \/>\nAnd the castle is brighter than a thousand Christmas trees<br \/>\nAnd the castle can never be rebuilt again<br \/>\nNo way<\/p>\n<p>One day a strange storm rolled in<br \/>\nWhile she was riding on her dragon<br \/>\nThe mushrooms and the bumblebees<br \/>\nTold the flowers how it happened<br \/>\nShe was lost in the invisible war<br \/>\nFighting in the battle<br \/>\nHer love is still buried there<br \/>\nIn the ruins of the castle<\/p>\n<p>And the castle oscillates to the beating heart of her mind<br \/>\nAnd the castle is taller than the Northern Lights<br \/>\nAnd the castle can never be rebuilt again<br \/>\nNo way<\/p>\n<p>And the castle can never be rebuilt again<br \/>\nNo way<br \/>\nAnd the castle can never be rebuilt again<br \/>\nNo way<\/p>\n<p>No way<br \/>\nNo way<br \/>\n(No way)<br \/>\nNo way, no way<br \/>\nNo way&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week the flamboyant Flaming Lips performed new song The Castle on the Tonight Show. The band was a comparatively demure while performing the new song off of their new album Oczy Mlody, which was released yesterday. Leader Wayne Coyne was nonetheless was a bit bedazzled while singing the devastating ode to a female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26773,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769\/revisions\/26773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}