Waitin' for a Superman

"Waitin' for a Superman"
Single by The Flaming Lips
from the album The Soft Bulletin
B-side
  • "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair"
  • "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)"
ReleasedOctober 1999
Recorded1999
GenreSymphonic pop[1]
Length4:17
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd
Producer(s)The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker
The Flaming Lips singles chronology
"Race for the Prize"
(1999)
"Waitin' for a Superman"
(1999)
"Do You Realize??"
(2002)

"Waitin' for a Superman" (subtitled "Is It Gettin' Heavy??" for the song's U.S. album release) is a song by The Flaming Lips, released as the second single taken from their 1999 album The Soft Bulletin, and reaching No. 73 in the UK Singles Chart.

  1. ^ Moon, Tom (August 28, 2008). "The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin". 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die. Workman Publishing Company. pp. 281–282. ISBN 9-780761-139638.