Flash Delirium

*Flash Delirium* is the fourth track off Congratulations, and the first single to be released off the album.

## Flash Delirium

### Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvSMp7T2Kes

## Order

### Next track

I Found a Whistle

The band originally didn't want to release any singles for the album. Goldwasser explained in an interview with NME, "We'd rather people hear the whole album as an album and see what tracks jump out rather than the ones that get played on the radio – if anything gets played on the radio!"

Andrew Vanwyngarden expresses his feelings towards social networking, and references Facebook with the line "stab your Facebook."

## Music video

The music video premiered on MGMT's website on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. It shows the two lead members of the band, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, at a welcome-home party. Ben touches a bandage at his neck a few times, with Andrew pulling his arm away from it each time. Ben removes the bandage to reveal a hole in his throat. An eel is pulled out of the hole, which is then shoved into a machine and presumably destroyed. The house trembles and the guests of the party dance as the machine emits lights, violently shaking. The video ends with a picture from outside the house showing something exploding inside and a guttural sound as the camera moves.

## Lyrics

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> Mild apprehension
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> Blank dreams of the coming fun
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> Distort the odds of a turnaround
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> Gut screams out next to none
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> So turn it on, tune it in
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> And stay inert
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> You say, "I've got the backbone"
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> The back way to escape the gun
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> Climbing a tree with a missing limb
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> And not saving anyone
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> And now it hurts to stay at home
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> And see flash
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> The mirror ball's throwing mold
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> And you can't get a grip if there's nothing to hold
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> You see the flash catch a white lily laugh and wilt
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> And if you must smash a glass first fill it to the hilt
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> Plants, as far as I know, are still
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> Still bending towards the light
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> And if we dance until the heart explodes
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> It will make this place ignite
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> And even if this hall collapses
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> I can stand by my pillar of hope
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> It's just a case of flash delirium
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> Here's a growing culture deep inside a corpse
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> Ages stuck together, taking it to the source
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> Timeless desperation, pictures on a screen scream
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> "Hey, people, what does it mean?"
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> Comfort keeps us nice
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> So quick to donate everything (nothing arrives)
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> Die wolken drifting blinding smiles circling (einkreisen)
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> And time's tingling spines
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> Attaching hands to floor
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> The rosy-tinted flash
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> The hot dog's getting cold
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> And you'll never be as good as the Rolling Stones
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> Watch the birds in the airport gathering dirt
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> Crowd the clean magazine chick lifting up her skirt
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> Lines when I close my eyes and just (Why close one eye and try to)
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> Aim blindly at the sun (Pledge allegiance to the sun)
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> And hear love when the ghosts start singing
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> (When plastic ghosts start terrorizing everyone)
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> Terrorizing everyone
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> And (geometric troops aligning)
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> (Carried up to the burial mounds) with gold
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> It's a heavy time but your (My earthbound heart is heavy)
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> Your rhythm makes it light (Your heartbeat keeps things light)
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> And explode like a violent star keeps (With the violence forever)
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> (Threatening the night)
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> And (even if this hall collapses)
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> (I can stand by my pillar of hope and trust)
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> That our heads won't bust
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> 66 55 red battleships
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> 40 earthlike planets
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> 3 holes 2 tits
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> 1 fork in its side
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> Zero tears in their eyes
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> Sue the spiders, sink the Welsh
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> Stab your Facebook, sell, sell, sell
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> Undercooked, overdone
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> Mass adulation not so funny
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> Poisoned honey, pseudo-science
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> Silly money, you're my honey!
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