RR 261030

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897: under a full moon in a desert night, a lion sniffs at a woman asleep in a striped robe beside her mandolin and water jug, and leaves her unharmed — Plate. Henri Rousseau, *The Sleeping Gypsy* (La Bohémienne endormie), 1897. Oil on canvas, 129.5 × 200.7 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The Flaming Lips

God Will Control the Werewolves

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The first song from The Teardrop Throbs, the Flaming Lips’ first album in more than six years and their first for Third Man Records, out 22 January 2027. Wayne Coyne found it in a game of hide-and-seek with his sons in a park at dusk, under a full moon: when one of them asked if werewolves might find them, he said God would hold them back for a while. Rousseau painted the same mercy: a lion in the moonlight that lets the sleeper be.

ACCESSION: RR 261030
ARTIST: The Flaming Lips
FROM: The Teardrop Throbs (2027)
PRODUCERS: The Flaming Lips, Taylor Johnson, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker
LABEL: Third Man Records
FILED: 30 October 2026

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