You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain)

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The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. Instrumentally, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical [In Our Brains] by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe)". They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signatur… more »


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1992
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You have to be joking
They wouldn't do what you said
Oh, my vision is blurred again 

You have to be kiddin' me
They wouldn't do those unspeakable things
Oh, my Jesus
It's worse than you think 

Stood here in the morning
Got no science to explain
Seems to me that God and the devil
Are both the same 

You have to be lyin'
They wouldn't do what you told me about
Oh, my vision is blurred again [Repeat: x2]

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Written by: WAYNE COYNE, MICHAEL IVINS, JONATHAN DONAHUE, JONATHAN DANIEL DONAHUE

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