The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
In the liner notes for the 2002 compilation The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg, Wayne Coyne notes that the “strange horn crescendos” in the middle section of Stand in Line (starting around 2:54) were sampled from a classical/jazz CD lent by a friend of producer Dave Fridmann (other string sam...
[Verse 1]
Ten men stand in line
At the gates of the cemetery on Tuesday morning
They're not open today
And ten moms stand in line
At the maternity ward
They're not bringing no babies out to play
Anytime today
[Verse 2]
What's a nice girl like you doing
Walking around this part of town?
See you sometime tomorrow
[Verse 3]
And ten men stand in line
Waiting for some personality to be put out on the corner
Today ain’t garbage day
Ain’t no, garbage taken today
Stand in Line was written by The Flaming Lips.
Stand in Line was produced by Dave Fridmann & The Flaming Lips.
The Flaming Lips released Stand in Line on Tue Sep 18 1990.