The W.A.N.D. Explained chords by The Flaming Lips
Verse 1
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This song started off uh as I think
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the most incomplete ideas
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We probably have ever brought
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today from the studio
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Which is again, it,
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people often asks how does it work
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Do you do this stuff at home and take
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it to Dave Fridmann
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And, and then he just sort of,
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you know, puts some finishing touches on it
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How they work is all
Verse 2
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different
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ways, sometimes we justbarely
Have an idea,
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always a lot of enthusiasm and energy
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But we barely have any idea 'bout what we wanna do,
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and sometimes something
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Marvelous happens and take it
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to a whole new direction
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Verse 3
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And so, um, I think I had this riff uhm,
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the "do do dinlo" part
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Uhm, uhm and then you play the great
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sort of funky understated beat
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Uhm and then you, you, you came up with the idea,
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um, Steven, about, yeah
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It calling it The W.A.N.D
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Yeah I had a picture on my desktop
Verse 4
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I dont know why just had a picture of, like,
a wand with
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Some sparkly sprinkly things around,
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and I thought that would be cool theme
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For like a psychedelic, like a prog rock band
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or something (sure yeah)
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Called the wand will be name of the band
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(Oh I see, right)
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And then it sort of like,
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it just went from there over a song called the wand
It seemed a little more beautiful
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(yeah, yeah)
Verse 5
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And I think at first we had a line like
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You got the power
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waving you on in the air
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And that was all we had and so, um
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And I think we did it for couple
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of months and it probably just
Stayed that way
And then we little by little
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changed into more of a song
Verse 6
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But yeah againit shows you the,
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sometimes that's a sort of freedom of working with
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Someone like Dave Fridmann is you don't-
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I have to be so prepared
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Sometimes not be ing prepared lets you
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breathe and discover some ideas
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Along the way and I think it's one of the craziest,
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most un expected, um, strangest tracks
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I think we ever recorded
Verse 7
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Yeah, I think this song, this to me is when it really
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started to seem like we were actually
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Working on the record, I mean 'cause we recorded Mr. Ambulance
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Driver but that was done in June of 2004
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(Right, yeah) and we got bogged down with all these side projects we had to do,
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we did the bo hemian rapsody cover
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We did a song with Sparklehorse for the David Johnston tribute,
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we did the Thievery Corporation track
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And we actually did this it felt like ok,
now we're working on this new record
And I think it really energizes to
move forward from there
Verse 8
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Yeah, yeah, suddenly we discovered something
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new radical and fun and different
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And I don't mean bogged down like "ugh we have
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to work on some other things", it's just you
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No I did
Verse 9
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You move away from finding a new direction,
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be cause
You are just sorta working on other things,
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so
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Yeah yeah here we go
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