On their own, these stand as two of the most beautiful songs ever recorded; taken in summation after the rest of the album, they are unparalleled in their emotional impact. This music has gotten me through everything.
I did disintegrate. And then when i had virtually nothing left, it's songs like this that made me regenerate. I recognized the folly in giving into letting myself break entirely. With Beauty like this; my Heart still shimmered, my lips began to smile again and my brain was given the nourishment to get me walking again, as unwieldy as it may be at times. It's a Love song to ourselves, a reminder that we must keep going.
The opening of this song feels like a march, a musical tribute, a requiem, a refrain. But there is no payoff. Instead of culminating in a triumphant ode, it culminates in a heartbreaking repetition. There's such hope in the first verses, and suddenly: "Feeling yourself disintegrate." "Feeling yourself disintegrate." "Feeling yourself disintegrate." "Feeling yourself disintegrate." It sounds tortured. It's completely a non-chorus, it's a wave of bittersweet loneliness. The singer knows that he's not going to make it out. The good guys didn't win. And then the guitar riff kicks in, like little particles unattaching themselves from a body. At 4:27, the guitar gets higher and higher, like thousands of pieces of stardust floating up into the night sky. The wave melts away, and you're left with crickets chirping. Sleeping on the roof doesn't wrap anything up. It's a slow unveiling of chords and notes, echoed and reverbed into a thick mist of noise, getting deeper and deeper, fading away. The softest bullet ever shot. It doesn't leave you with any one thing, it leaves you with nothing. It took everything away from you. I listen to sleeping on the roof and hearing missles raining down, buildings crumbling, crickets nesting inside. And suddenly you can't hear anything at all. It just fades out.
This whole composition is absolutely staggeringly cathartic and beautiful. Thankyou flaming lips for delivering us something so completely holy and divine 💖
Me identifico mucho con esas canciones de the flaming lips, las amo! y mirando imágenes así, es una perfecta combinación para una persona solitaria en un instante de placentera nostalgia!! Hermoso vídeo. Saludos de ciudad de mexico
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate=When you're high you feel like your a slug melting slowly with rainbows behind you as your mind is melting on pure joy and acid ^__^ my hippies/stoners could relate..
jose ernesto hernandez ponce wow this song (and many others) remind me of a time in my life where I was taking a lot of acid. Hope your journey was pleasant.
