The Flaming Lips W.A.N.D. Lyrics

(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)

Time after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world
Telling us all it's them who's in charge of it all
I've got a trick, a magic stick, that will make them all fall
We've got the power now, m_________ers; that's where it belongs

You've got that right!
(Power in there)
You know that it is!
(Wand in the air)

They've got their weapons to solve all their questions, they don't know what it's for
(Cause they don't know what it's for)
Why can't they see that's not power, that's greed, to just want more and more?
(Just want more and more)
I got a plan and it's here in my hand; a baton made of light
We're the enforcers, the sorcerer's orphans, and we know why we fight
(And we know why we fight)

You've got that right
(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)

(You've got the power in there)
(You've got the power in there)
(You've got the power in there)
(Waving your wand in the air)

You've got that right!!
You know that it is!

by Spider6333 on 02-02-2006 @ 02:03:04 AM
sounds like "I got a plan and it's here in my hand" no idea about the second part.

by FurryPlanet on 03-03-2006 @ 07:27:15 PM
hmmm, not sure about this one. I think its one of those "power to the people" type songs. Wayne, might have been talking about "them" being our Bush Government. Who f'in knows! What does W.A.N.D. Stand for? Thats what i wanna know.

by kkrrissttinnaa on 03-03-2006 @ 09:18:44 PM
I haven't heard this song yet, but maybe W.A.N.D. doesn't stand for anything. Like, the Incubus Cd entitled "S.C.I.E.N.C.E.", they just felt like putting periods inbetween the letters. Plus, it looks like they use the word WAND in there.

by jfrancis on 03-05-2006 @ 07:31:17 AM
W.A.N.D. stands for "(The) Will Always Negates Defeat".

by destroyalltacos on 03-13-2006 @ 09:10:25 AM
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:

"The idea of a magic wand and magic powers occurred to me while watching a homeless guy in Oklahoma City. 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. 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. I mean... 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"... 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!!...

And so we delved into a kind of radical protest rock mentality...We sing, "We got the power now, m_________ers, that's where it belongs", but I believe it's cosmically empowering - not actually empowering. In the song, we rail against the greedy, corrupt evil beings who are in control and trying to enslave us... But our rebellion is simply to fight back - we have no solutions."

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.