Indie rock, psychedelic rock, alternative rock 1"įrom the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots All they have is now.2003 single by The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. The man from the future informs Wayne that "they don't make it." This whole even forces Wayne, poor, lonely, cowardly Wayne, to examine himself and realize that his future doesn't belong to Yoshimi.
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It tells the story of a version of Wayne that travels back in time from "a dimension torn free from the future." That universe where Wayne is truly free of crippling emotional burden. The second to last song brings the whole story together.Īll We Have Is Now documents Wayne's coming to terms with Yoshimi's rejection. The song ends with the same line as the intro. He's desperately trying to capture Yoshimi's love and attention with these big, scary questions.
"You realize the sun doesn't go down/ It's an illusion caused by the world spinning round" He ponders a lot of major existenial questions. It begins with Wayne referencing Yoshimi's beautiful face. "When you look inside, all you'll see is self-reflected inner sadness." Wayne can't break through this constructed prison of his and "Look outside, I know you'll recognize the summertime.ĭo You Realize, the most beautiful song on this album, is Wayne's plea for love. Wayne directly addresses this melancholy in this song. He feels completely alone, even amongst the people that he knows. The only applicable portions are in the second verse: "I thought I recognized your face/ But I am the stranger now/ Amongst the recognized." This can be interpreted as Wayne's internal exodus and identity crisis. It can still be examined, but with more effort and speculation. I will admit, Are You a Hypnotist?/ is the one oddball in my opinion. "I was waiting on a moment," his time for Yoshimi to love him, "But the moment never came."
"I had to surrender/The universe will have its way/Too powerful to master." He's completely given up and admits defeat to himself.Įgo Tripping At The Gates of Hell expands on this defeat in the second verse when Wayne says that "I was wanting you to love me/ But your love, it never came/ All the other love around me/ Was wasting away." Although she has no idea, Yoshimi monopolizes Wayne's time and emotions. It's probably the least subtle song in terms of lyrical choice: "What is love and what is hate/ The calculation's error." Wayne still questions himself and his feelings towards Yoshimi and her rejection. In The Morning Of the Magicians is the direct follow up to One More Robot and continues the emotional perspective of the robots. Definitely worth listening to but not important to the theory. Only because that would mean that Wayne loses. Instead, Wayne backs down from his emotions, wishing that Yoshimi would step in and fight them (love him, essentially). We know the robots have feelings, the previous song just made that apparent. "Those evil natured robots, programmed to destroy us," is either a line of intentional misdirection or, more likely, a cry of denial. It establishes the subject of Wayne's affections, Yoshimi, and refers back to his cowardice in the face of his emotions. Yoshimi Battles The Pinks Robots - Part 1 Link Part 2 Linkįollowing this is the titular song. Specifically, the lines "Is it wrong to think it's love/when it tries the way it does?" and "Feeling a synthetic type of love." He is awakening to these feelings of love. This song is where a lot of the underlying story comes from. As the song nears it's end, he constantly questions his manhood and repeatedly backs down from confrontations. He attempts to court her, but she rejects him. In Fight Test, it's apparent that he is a coward whilst Yoshimi (not mentioned by name) is a fighter. I highly recommend playing the song links as you read. I examined the album on a song by song basis, so here is the breakdown (Important note- I call the narrator Wayne after the lead singer of The Flaming Lips.) I know this sounds a bit cheeky and cliche, but considering how crazy Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is already, this could actually show a more emotional aspect to the album.
The robots represent Wayne, or more specifically, Wayne's emotional indecision.
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