Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
Wayne's Notes from the Album:
"Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell - To derive one's happiness from only specific moments in time is to miss out on the cosmic accident that is all of life's moments..."
Wayne's quote from Staring At Sound:
"With 'Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell' - and that is such an awesome title for such a silly nothing of a song - my nephew Dennis borrowed the synthesizer and came up with that bubbling sound. I put it into my digital recorder, played one chord and an element of that bass line, and when Steven came by, I said, 'See if you can make this something we could sing over.' I went out for a bike ride, came back, and he had something perfect, a synthesizer/Motown crossover, and I just came up with some lyrics about longing and not seizing the moment."
Other Versions:
Ego Tripping (Ego In Acceleration) Jason Bently Mix
Remix and Additional Production by:
Jason Bentley at Machine Head, Venice, CA
Engineered and mixed by Adam Schiff and Tom Moran
Appeared on: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell EP
Ego Tripping Self-Admiration With Blow Up Mix
Remix an Additional Production by:
Blow-Up - Paolo Cilione & Claudio Camaione
Appeared on: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell EP
"Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell - To derive one's happiness from only specific moments in time is to miss out on the cosmic accident that is all of life's moments..."
"With 'Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell' - and that is such an awesome title for such a silly nothing of a song - my nephew Dennis borrowed the synthesizer and came up with that bubbling sound. I put it into my digital recorder, played one chord and an element of that bass line, and when Steven came by, I said, 'See if you can make this something we could sing over.' I went out for a bike ride, came back, and he had something perfect, a synthesizer/Motown crossover, and I just came up with some lyrics about longing and not seizing the moment."
Remix and Additional Production by:
Jason Bentley at Machine Head, Venice, CA
Engineered and mixed by Adam Schiff and Tom Moran
Appeared on: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell EP
Remix an Additional Production by:
Blow-Up - Paolo Cilione & Claudio Camaione
Appeared on: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell EP
I was waiting on a moment
But the moment never came
All the billion other moments
Were just slipping all away
I must have been tripping
Were just slipping all way
Just ego tripping
I was wanting you to love me
But your love it never came
All the other love around me
Was just wasting all away
I must have been tripping
Was just wasting all away
Just ego tripping
Was just wasting all away
Just ego tripping
I was waiting on a moment
But the moment never came
Just ego tripping
But the moment never came
Just ego tripping
But the moment never came
Ooo, just ego tripping
But the moment never came
Just ego tripping
But the moment never came
Ooo, just ego tripping
But the moment never came
But the moment never came
But the moment never came
All the billion other moments
Were just slipping all away
I must have been tripping
Were just slipping all way
Just ego tripping
But your love it never came
All the other love around me
Was just wasting all away
I must have been tripping
Was just wasting all away
Just ego tripping
Was just wasting all away
Just ego tripping
But the moment never came
Just ego tripping
But the moment never came
Just ego tripping
But the moment never came
Ooo, just ego tripping
But the moment never came
Just ego tripping
But the moment never came
Ooo, just ego tripping
But the moment never came
But the moment never came
Live
"Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell" made its concert debut in 2010, in an arrangement with acoustic guitar and keyboard. It remains a live Lips rarity. It was performed once in an acoustic radio show performance supporting Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.
| 10/28/2011 | North Charleston SC USA | North Charleston Performing Arts Center | ||
| 09/21/2011 | Puyallup WA USA | Northwest Concert Center | Puyallup Fair | |
| 09/20/2011 | Portland OR USA | Keller Auditorium | ||
| 11/20/2010 | Seoul South Korea | AX-Korea | ||
| 10/02/2010 | Oakland CA USA | Fox Theater | Download Available | |
| 09/18/2010 | Columbia MO USA | Blue Note | ||
| 09/17/2010 | St. Louis MO USA | The Pageant | ||
| 11/10/2003 | London England | BBC Radio 2 | The Janice Long Show | Download Available |







