The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman [Official Music Video]
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- "Waitin for Superman" is featured on The Flaming Lips album 'The Soft Bulletin'.
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In memory of my old friend Steve Lines who lost his fight with Covid 19 last week. THIS was the last song he ever heard, played at his bedside. R.I.P. 🌟 ✌🏼
A Great note to go out on! Our Old Mate! Gone and Never Forgotten! Sleep well Old Friend! 😺😔
Superman lifted him up to the sky and gave him a trip around the world. Resting on the eternal fields now :-) Take care up there mister Steve Lines.
It’s a good one to go with…
Been sharing this posted comment by @Rustic Rod, because it is…. Proper. Good to have real friends. If you’re lucky, you can count them on 1 hand.
I don't know you, but I love you, and your dear friend.
I saw the Flaming Lips in London a few days after Elliott Smith died and they dedicated this to their friend. Very sad moment.
holy shit elliott smith and the flaming lips knew eachother
Who's here because this song goes through their head often since the global pandemic really took off, and got inspired to continue helping each other out, even after faltering sometimes.
This is definitely on my lockdown music list, along with Race for the price, Feeling yourself disintegrate, Do you realize?, and Yoshimi battles the pink robots.
Hang in there Bert. You’re a superman doing the best he can.
Not particularly. I think of it in a myriad of circumstances. Mostly when I think of people in big cities dealing with that strange existence.
Yes. Very appropriate song for 2020/ 2021
Not me
I saw the flaming lips live a very long time ago now on my 16th birthday (I’m now 37). Today, sadly my dad passed away and I asked for this song to be played in his final moments as it was a song we both loved. I miss him greatly already. 😔
was released in 1999 . its august . 2019 . its still getting heavier .
john darwin what about now 🤭
i think superman has been , and like that jesus bloke , a large crowd of humans killed him for being a wierdo .
Even heavier...
@@anniep2144 and heavier ............
Since then, lovely, we are descending much much lower, ... (Or, higher, depending on your orientation, Up or Down, dooby Doo, down down) in our Yellow Simbarine 🚀☪️♋💨💫🌙💯🥖➖🏘️🚇
One day I won’t weep when I hear this song. Today is not that day.
You're human, mate. Weep gloriously.
"Is it overwhelming to use a crane to crush a fly?" makes me cry every damn time
What does it mean?
@@bar9886whatever you want it to mean, whatever you're thinking about or feeling at the moment. Judging by the music it'll probably be something sad
Suddenly I'm 30 years old again. Still hits me right in the feels like yesterday. Now I'm 51, my children are grown and I'm left wondering where time went..
yes man, so am I. Wondering.
It’s all drozd he has the keys to the infinite
Same here unfortunately my daughter is grown and barely even cares to talk to me anymore all I get is a text every couple days back-and-forth and she never wants to pick up the phone and actually talk but she knows that I love her and hopefully when she gets older she’ll come back around I guess that’s the cycle
My son went a week without contact just glad he made it with good morals, this world is going crazy !! I’m sure he will hit me up soon cause at one time I was his Superman
just saw this song last night and it was one of the most powerful Flaming Lips moments ever....Wayne was about to cry singing every word. It was so incredibly poignant after his Covid speeches.
Is it on youtube?
What are you talking about
This is one of my favorite songs ever.
I heard this on my way home from college today. I had to pull over and give myself a few minutes to just sit there and cry. With COVID still rampant in the United States, it feels like the world is too heavy now. 😞
Father’s Day 2018. My Dad was/is and will always be my Superman. I hope I can be the same for my kids.
I remember breaking down after 9/11. I was holding it together just fine for a week or so and I was always a huge FL fan. I happened to put this on and just lost it.
In #MentalHealthAwareness week this needs bigging up. It explains a lot very simply. Soft Bulletin & Yoshimi got me through my worst years (PTSD). Playing this 15 years later takes me back to the bad old days in a good way. I realise Superman can lift heavier & more often than then. Worth remembering. Saw them at Newcastle City Hall way back when. Awesome performers. Wayne's the same age as me.
“Bigging”?
I miss my dad...
I'm so sorry for your loss 💔
Sorry for your loss, friend.
God damn I love artsists that write, play and record their own music. Every single dude and dudette involved with the Flips including Fridmann and Booker of course, worked there asses off and some of them went through some shit and they got to this point and have made masterpieces for the human race. Much love gentlemen especially Steven (once an addict never again!!!!) 😊
I need to hear this when things feel like they're falling apart, such an amazing message. Love you guys
The park where this was filmed was the site of dozens of my teenage acid trips. My favorite video ever.
OKC Memorial Park? Really?
Just thought I’d share an interesting story about me and The Flaming Lips, I was born in 2003 and didn’t know too much about them growing up, but I did know that the bassist was my best friend’s uncle and that she stayed with him and her aunt most of the time, she came over every Friday and we played Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy and I think this was 1st grade, her aunt and uncle started to get to know my parents and I went over to their house once, and at the time we lived in Bellevue, Kentucky, so the day I went to her house we played with all these medieval imaginext that she had and some guy walked in and he was hanging out with Michael which was her uncle’s name, and then a few years later after I’d heard their music and saw Wayne Coyne I realized that the guy Michael was with was Wayne, it’s a weird story that I can never tell because none of my friends know The Flaming Lips and my family already knows
you had a run in w/ genius btw :)
Kip Dalpe ik I just didn’t acknowledge it at the time and didn’t know their band outside of Bad Days from Batman Forever and the album cover to Yoshimi that was a poster at my uncle and aunts’ house lmao
What a rad experience!
I've been lucky enough to meet Wayne as well and he is as kind and awesome as you'd think he is!!
@@kip4966 fucking genius and a kind human
This is a tear jerker this one...sniff...sniff...
I can’t tell you how much this has helped me lately. Thx Wayne.
I like the gentleness of the vocals.
I'd do anything to go back and see them on this tour around '99...
bro they're back in the summer playing The Soft Bulletin fully
Bfixico done it, Reading 1999
Love what Sam Beam(Iron & Wine) did with this. Great song!
I’ve been listening to this song since 99 and just now saw the video.
They shouldn’t have made a video, you can’t add anything to perfection
I miss the old Flaming Lips. We need more Steven-centric videos like this.
This comment is over 6 years old...but new album announced!!!
@@CrustyWhiteBread New album
Is amazing
All the feels...I love this song, and this band!
Best lips song ever
That's a tough thing to think about. I'll either go with Feelin' Yourself Disintergrate, When You Smile, Will You Return, Cosmic Autumn Rebellion, 2025 (You're Invisible now) or Ego Trippin'
Beautiful and heartfelt
Maybe it's just this year but this song has really struck a chord with me recently. I used to think it was good but not their best, now it's probably my favorite on the album.
How does this song not have 10 million plus views by now? The world is insane
Living not far from Newtown, this song came up on my playlist while driving on that horrible day. I lost it.
beautiful song!!
The drum beat on this track is awesome. So hypnotic it's like a drum pattern used in dance music but in this case used on a very different type of song.
Drozd is a Bonham fan.
@@StratsRUs ahh thanks, i can see that now. Definitely has a "when the levee breaks" sound to the drums
As I understand, the singer also does at least part of the drumming in their recordings, and he is the one (so I've read) who throws on odd time signatures and unexpected delays).
Rediscovered this song recently, I'm a new dad and the lady can't find a job this song hits in a whole different way than when I was younger and with less responsibility.
Asked you a question
I didn't need you to reply
Is it gettin' heavy?
But they'll realize
Is it gettin' heavy?
Well I thought it was already as heavy
As can be
Is it overwhelming
To use a crane to crush a fly?
It's a good time for Superman
To lift the sun into the sky
'Cause it's gettin' heavy
Well I thought it was already as heavy
As can be
Tell everybody
Waitin' for Superman
That they should try to hold on
Best they can
He hasn't dropped them
Forgot them
Or anything
It's just too heavy for Superman to lift
Is it gettin' heavy?
Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be.
Tell everybody
Waitin' for Superman
That they should try to hold on
Best they can
He hasn't dropped them
Forgot them
Or anything
It's just too heavy for Superman to lift
This song is brilliant because it is kind of upside down in terms of production, drums and bells upfront and everything else lower in volume and using EQ to different elements up front. LOVE this song so much.
Lovely song!! Was played this evening in The Voice in Norway,love it!
It's pretty heavy at the moment.
21 years later we are still waiting on Superman
this is the best worst video ever
soft bulletin is always a wonderful! each listen a new experience, but same feeling of warmth and understanding
I discovered this band and album belatedly during lockdown in 2020 during a Tim's Twitter LIstening Party. This is such a beautiful song.
Feeling sick and this song helps me hold on and be patient
"It's just too heavy for superman to lift."
Correct, life is rough and we alone are not enough to sufficiently help people.
We together are ❤️
So cute when the kid gives Wayne his cape at the end 😊🥰
It's Steven (Drozd) from the band, not Wayne, but yes, it's a beautiful moment. I always read it as THIS is Superman, but he's forgotten, and his son has to remind him, as ALL dad's can be 'Superman' if they want to be.
@@electricden Thank you for the clarification.
man, this record meant a great deal to me and I had no idea there was even a video.
Why can't I hold all these feels?
This has got to be the greatest song ever. At least my life
I love Dad !
finally i found this song! :)
Finally! I've been wanting to have this video on UA-cam for so long!
Steven Drozd with SUCH a great beat, damn. Normies are like, whaaaaa..... It's like John Bonham meets hip hop, fucking great.
This song really affects me, so sad after watching everyone on the planet die and attending 7 billion funerals. Rest in peace, everyone. I’m gettin’ an ice cream cone.
I still listen to this
Good for you. No one cares.
one of my favourite FL songs no doubt
My whole life I’ve struggled with trying to help everyone, every time I face what feels like a loosing battle I play this song to remind myself that I’m only human and that I can’t do everything no matter how much I try
Love this song,soo beautiful!!
Who's heavy in 2024?
First time seeing this video. What a good one!
It’s Becomes Heavy! For Everyone ! 🤠
I'm still floating in new
my brother just recently passed and he said this song was what he listened to when his world was crumbling apart... i finally decided to give it a listen and i know why he did...
The drumming kills me.
Wonderful!
Sencillamente hermoso
Absolute blinder💎
thats how its fucking done
Best reference! Great!!!
Just wow.
Can't wait 2 c u in Austin. I don't do festivals generally...but I am going 2 c u guys!😁🎶💞 Thank u 4 giving me such beautiful music 2 listen 2!!!!! 💖😊
Learn how to spell Christ.
Still bumpin in 2018 😎
Love the video
I LOVE U WAYNE
The drums is what was often pounded out on folks desk in highschool.....driving home the sorrow yet not bestowed upon me.
My friend,,,my heart breaks 4 u
this drumming 🌈🌟
Saw many shows in my life.. fl have great fans
I'm still here
I’m still waiting for mine
yess for the hundredth time, where is my superman?
Something's real nice about this music video. In a plastic bag-American Beauty sort of way.
4 minute cold chill
Fantastisch mooi nummer .
If anybody is scrolling in new, I'm still listening to this
No one gives a damn.
amazing song!
My dad just died from Cancer since six months ago and I can understand what Wayne is referring on the song when he sings:
Cause it's gettin' heavy
Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be
Tell everybody
Waitin' for Superman
I thought it was already as heavy as can be...
baby girl, if you are reading this: i love you and will always here for you.
🕊️🕊️
Still watching
Unfortunately this is the story of my life. I hold on the best I can.
Believe what you want to believe. Maybe there's an afterlife. Nothing is as heavy as that, hopefully we continue on, after we die. Love to John, Phyllis, and all the N crew. Love you goodbye.
Here still
54 people don't deserve a superman.
28 now. Hohum.
Bizarro "Hold my beer"
NO CAPES!
i have the cd they are one of the best american bands listen to the song -pompei-götterdämmerung-is my faw. song ciao f.lips
Ew the first results for "Waiting for Superman" are Daughtry.
lurch321 It's an opinion, I'm allowed to have those, right? :D
Here's an opinion piece that happens to reaffirm my dislike of his disingenuity: learntohearagain.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-chris-daughtry-sucks.html
Sen Flores Damn, chill out. I was just asking why you don't like Daughtry. No need to give me the third degree. Lord......................
lurch321 lol if it seems like I have an attitude, you're reading me wrong XD
I just like having backup. (and btw 3rd degree refers to interrogation)
+Sen Flores damn that was awesome. i never heard daughtry though. no opinion
cigaretteclub Give them a shot. Don't let high and mighty Sen Flores influence you.
landmark album. for many years after it released it felt like butter for the ears. now it has aged a bit, but you only hear that because music today champions style over substance.
The video was so simple, yet so deep. It's difficult to not see the Christ imagery here on many levels. Christ as the hero or "savior" of man kind, just as the father in the video is the hero and protector of his son (as father roles go). The singer running into the post, i.e. literally running into his cross and bleeding all over. Also, he is dressed in white (purity, the light of Christ), in contrast to the blood that has completely engulfed his face as the child watches with compassion. The child, then uses his super powers to take back the pain, the mistakes, the trauma. The blood flow reverses, along with the backwards-flowing fountain behind. The video begins with the man sining behind a tongue of flame and red sparks. Then , as a human, he is dressed white, and the red comes OUT of him (blood). Yet the video end with water relieving the pain. The Holy Spirit. Holy water. It's all there. // I was brought here because I had just done a neat A-432 Hz conversion of the song. For those interested, I just put it up on my uToob channel here, The Acoustic Rabbit Hole
Wayne definitely resembles Terence Mckenna here