The Abandoned Hospital Ship
Wayne's quote from Staring At Sound:
"It was a sort of Twilight Zone episode: I was thinking of a giant hospital spaceship going to different galaxies. One patient shows up, they work frantically through the night to save him, and at the end of the episode, it's God that they saved; God was in some horrible galactic accident. In a typical Rod Sterling sort of way, the patient leaves, and they're all sitting there thinking, 'Oh, nice work,' but they don't realize the extent of what they did. I was playing with a lot of film loops at the time, and the projector just sort of naturally made its way onto the tune. I think we tried turning it off, but the minute we did, the whole atmosphere disappeared."
"It was a sort of Twilight Zone episode: I was thinking of a giant hospital spaceship going to different galaxies. One patient shows up, they work frantically through the night to save him, and at the end of the episode, it's God that they saved; God was in some horrible galactic accident. In a typical Rod Sterling sort of way, the patient leaves, and they're all sitting there thinking, 'Oh, nice work,' but they don't realize the extent of what they did. I was playing with a lot of film loops at the time, and the projector just sort of naturally made its way onto the tune. I think we tried turning it off, but the minute we did, the whole atmosphere disappeared."
Well, it took some time
'Cause it's a lot
God, it's a bunch
It's such a big, old, black golden buzz
And yeah, it took some help
With lots of machines, the experts could tell
With their equipment pushed to the max
And sure it seems easy now
But I'll tell you what, we were perplexed
Finding the needle in the needle's disguise
And now that it's conceived
The station is all settled down
And I'm sort of relieved
And I'm getting over it now
'Cause it's a lot
God, it's a bunch
It's such a big, old, black golden buzz
With lots of machines, the experts could tell
With their equipment pushed to the max
But I'll tell you what, we were perplexed
Finding the needle in the needle's disguise
The station is all settled down
And I'm sort of relieved
And I'm getting over it now
Discography Appearances
Albums
Promos
Flaming Lips Compilations
Live
"The Abandoned Hospital Ship" was used as a breathtaking introduction to many of the latter Christmas lights shows, with the wall of thousands of lights coming on in the middle of the song, right with the drums after Wayne's vocals and Ronald's solo.
| 05/24/1996 | Dallas TX USA | Trees | Download Available | |
| 05/23/1996 | Austin TX USA | Liberty Lunch | ||
| 05/22/1996 | Houston TX USA | The Abyss | Download Available | |
| 05/10/1996 | Seattle WA USA | Moe's | Download Available | |
| 05/04/1996 | Minneapolis MN USA | First Avenue | Download Available | |
| 05/02/1996 | Milwaukee WI USA | Shank Hall | ||
| 04/30/1996 | Chicago IL USA | The Double Door | Download Available | |
| 04/29/1996 | Chicago IL USA | The Double Door | Download Available | |
| 03/25/1996 | Cologne Germany | Luxor | Download Available | |
| 03/18/1996 | Frankfurt Germany | Nachtleben | Download Available |



