Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Album Lyrics

[Instrumental]

Gorillaz and the boss Dogg
Planet of the apes

The revolution will be televised
And the pollution from the ocean
Now with devotion
Push peace and keep it in motion

Kids, gather around
Yeah, I need your focus
I know it seems like the world is so hopeless

It's like wonderland

Now fascinate me
Picture and animate me
'Cause I'm rollin'
Deep holein'
Click clacking
Crack-a-lacking
Full packing
Mo' stacking
Acting a fool when I teach
Welcome to the world of the Plastic Beach
Welcome to the world of the Plastic Beach

Mirror mirror on the wall
Boss Dawg
Give it to 'em
Get involved
Turn it up
Speed it up
Slow it up
Underground where the under us undercut
Shipped up
Shipped out
Swimmin' with the sharks
Put my gills up
Turn the wheels up
Real tough
Drinkin' lemonade in the shade
Getting blade with a gang of prilgrims

Yeah, just like that
Belly floppin' lockin' while I'm rockin' in the bubble bath
And I'm just like math
Fozo's added up that get you more cash
So quick, so fast
All the kids say they love it when I make 'em laugh

Welcome to the world of the Plastic Beach

[Bashy:]
Hey, look, yo!
No castaway, no survivor
I ain't lost and this ain't shipwrecked
I feel small in this big wide world
And mommy ain't said 'Honey, I shrunk the kids' yet
I ain't Jesus, but I'm walkin' on water
There's no bombs here, there's no war 'cause
I can break out of jail with a lighter,
So is there any point in makin' laws blood?
This ain't Atlantis, are you sure?
I nearly suffocated when I touched the shore
No rain, condoms imported
And up the road, you'll never guess who I saw

[Kano:]
It's K.A. l
Look, skip on the beat like Ali in the gym
Honey, I'm home, this is where I wanna live
Just found it like Nemo on the de-law
I don't know if it's greener, but it's green though
On the other side of the fence
Bye to the ends, look, no fence, no stress, no rent
No supervision shit, this real folk
Where the women look hot, but the beat's cold
And the speech goes like, "hi, little lady"
Sex on the beach, wanna try for a baby
Word in the village, I'm a little bit crazy
Swagger on a hundred degrees, not eighty
Look, if heaven had a VIP, this is it: white sand, blue sea
But I don't know who they are
And I'm damn sure they don't know me, but I come in peace

[Bashy:] Cool! White Flag! White Flag!
[Kano:] No war!
[Bashy:] No guns!
[Kano:] No poor!
[Bashy:] Just life
[Kano:] Just love
[Bashy:] No hype
[Kano:] Just fun
[Bashy:] No ties
[Kano:] Just me and my mic
[Bashy:] Just me and my wife
[Kano:] But tell me if I'm dreamin', 'cause I don't wanna wake up 'til the evenin'
[Bashy:] And I don't wanna be left sleepin' from all the diseases that I breathe in
[Kano:] Look, respect the island, no stealin'!
[Bashy:] And don't bring religion here, no three kings
[Kano:] Integrated and we ain't leavin'!

We come on a peace thing
[Bashy:] White flag?
[Kano:] White flag!

I'm a scary gargoyle on a tower
That you made with plastic power
Your rhinestone eyes are like factories far away

Where the paralytic dreams that we all seem to keep
Drive on engines 'til they weep
With future pixels in factories far away

So call the mainland from the beach
All parties now washed up in bleach
The waves are rising for this time of year

And nobody knows what to do with the heat
Under sunshine pylons we'll meet
While rain is falling like rhinestones from the sky

Uh
Mmmmm...

I got a feeling now my heart is frozen
All the bowses and the growses
Have been abstinated in my soul

I prayed on the immovable
Yeah, clinging to the atoms of rocks
Seasons, the adjustments, signs of change

I can't see now she said taxi
Now red light is all I can take
This dawn brings strange loyalties, and skies

I'm a scary gargoyle on a tower
That you made with plastic power
Your rhinestone eyes are like factories far away

(Here we go again)
(That's electric)
Uh
(That's electric)

Helicopters fly over the beach
Same time everyday, same routine
Clear target in the summer when skies are blue

It's part of the noise when winter comes
It reverberates in my lungs
Natures corrupted in factories far away

(Here we go again)
(That's electric)
Your love's like rhinestones, falling from the sky
Uh
(That's electric)
With future pixels in factories far away
(Here we go again)
(That's electric)
Your love's like rhinestones, falling from the sky
Uh
(That's electric)
With future pixels in factories far away
(Here we go again)

Love, electricity, shockwave central
Power on the motherboard, yes
Push up, overload, legendary heavy glow
Sunshine, thunder roll, keep this on
Yes, the lantern burns, firm and easy
And broadcast, so raw and neatly
Thunder roll, sunshine, work it out

Overload, overload, overload
Comin' on to the
Overload, overload, overload
Comin' on to the
Overload, overload, overload
Comin' on to the
Overload, overload, overload
Comin' on to the

Oh Stylo
Go for blossom in your soul
When you know your heart is light
Electric is the love

When the mako flies up from the bottom in your eyes
Then I'll know the twilight skies are not so broken hearted

If it's love, it's electric
It'll be flowing on the streets
Night after night
Just to get through the week
Sometimes it's hard

Right now

Sing yourself out of depression, rise above
All recession, if I know your heart
Electric is the love

There's only one way
Let it pray a little while longer
It's got a way of passing through man and woman
In another world
In another world in the universe, oh

Right now
Here's what we got to do

If it's love, it's electric
It'll be flowing on the streets
Night after night
Just to get through the week
Sometimes it's hard

That's what I'm talking 'bout

Love, electricity, shockwave central
Power on the motherboard, yes
Push up, overload, legendary heavy glow
Sunshine, thunder roll, keep this on
Yes, the lantern burns, firm and easy
And broadcast, so raw and neatly
Thunder roll, sunshine, work it out

Right now

This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast
Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.

Yo, pretty packages of frosted delights
Look, it comes with a toy hehe, I like that.
I wanna number 4, a number 6, and throw in a plastic doughnut
Just enjoy the gritty crunch, it tastes just like chicken.
Wrappers of many bit sizes
Man, are you freakin blind? That's a rock.
All mixed in the pot for momma's homemade from scratch, well, not quite.
Toasted over flames, they be tasting quite right.

All hail king Neptune and his water breathers
No snail thing to quick for his water feeders
Don't waste time with your net, our net worth is Set Ready, go.
Many know others, but
We be the colors of the mad and the wicked
We be bad, we be brickit with the 24 hour sign
Shower my habits while you dine like rabbits
With the crunchy, crunchy carrots (that's chicken)
Gotta have it Superfast!

(A whole lot of breakfast you got time for!)

Superfast Superfast, I come in last, but just in time for breakfast
Keep it through, Keep it through, forever blue
Tonight's the night for action [? ]
Aluminum I crush your f.u.n aluminum
The sea is radioactive
The sea is radioactive

All hail king Neptune and his water breathers
No snail thing to quick for his water feeders
Don't waste time with your net, our net worth is Set, Ready, go.
Many know others, but
We be the colors of the mad and the wicked
We be bad, we be brickit with the 24 hour sign
Shower my habits while you dine like rabbits
With the crunchy, crunchy carrots (that's chicken)
Gotta have it Superfast!

Superfast Superfast, I come in last, but just in time for breakfast
Keep it through, Keep it through, forever blue
Tonight's the night for action [? ]
Aluminum I crush your f.u.n aluminum
The sea is radioactive
The sea is radioactive

Superfast Jellyfish
Superfast Jellyfish
Superfast Jellyfish (Don't waste time!)
Superfast Jellyfish
Superfast Jellyfish

Oh joys arise
The sun has come again to hold you
Sailing out the doldrums of the morning
The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you
It's all around you, out here

And if the whole world is crashing down on you
Fall through space out of mind with me
Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
Blows all the shadows far away

The falling alcohol empire, is here to hold you
Ruling out and haunted till it sinks

Little memories, marching on
Your little feet, working the machine
Will it spin, will it soar
My little dream, working the machine

Soothe like a wave
In plastic fall
Closing in on the moon
From where we are

Little memories
Your little feet, working the machine
Will it spin, will it soar
My little dream, working the machine

Soothe like a wave
In plastic fall
Closing in on the moon
From where we are

Where's North from here?

It was a glitter freeze
Listen
You are a credit
A believer

Ship him far!

Some kind of nature
Some kind of soul
Some kind of mixture
Some kind of gold
Some kind of majesty
Some chemical load

Some kind of metal made up from glue
Some kind of plastic I could wrap around you
They need the eat, and they-they wear phony clothes

Some kind of nature
Some kind of soul
Some kind of mixture
Some kind of gold
Some kind of majesty
Some chemical load

Well near thy plastics
And digital foils
Could wrap up the sun
And protect the girls
From the spiritual poisons
You spill at night
Like phony clothes, but
I really like my-

Some kind of nature (some kind of nature, some kind of soul)
Comes from one within us
Oh, Lord, forgive me (some kind of mixture, some kind of gold)
It's got to come and find us
All we are is dust

Some kind of metal made up from glue
Some kind of plastic I could wrap around you
They need the eat, and they-they wear phony clothes

Some kind of nature (some kind of nature, some kind of soul)
Comes from one within us
Oh, Lord, forgive me (some kind of mixture, some kind of gold)
It's got to come and find us
All we are is dust

Up on Melancholy Hill,
There's a plastic tree.
Are you here with me?
Just looking out on the day
Of another dream,

Where you can't get what you want,
But you can get me.

So let's set out to sea,
'Cause you are my medicine
When you're close to me.
When you're close to me.

So calling all submarines,
'Round the world we'll go.
Does anybody know, love,
If we're looking out on the day
Of another dream?

If you can't get what you want,
Then come with me.

Up on Melancholy Hill
Sits a manatee,
Just looking out on the day,
When you're close to me.
When you're close to me.

When you're close to me.

Distant stars
Come in black or red
I've seen their worlds
Inside my head

They connect
With the fall of man
They breathe you in
And dive as deep as they can

There's nothing you can do for them
They are the force between
When the sunlight is arising

There's nothing you can say to him
He is an outer heart
And the space has been broken

Broken
All old
Broken

Is it far away in the
Glitter Freeze
Or in our eyes
Every time they leave

It's by the light
Of the plasma springs
We keep switched on
All through the night while we sleep

There's nothing you can do for them
They are the force between
When the sunlight is arising

There's nothing you can say to her
I am without a heart
And the space has been broken

Broken
All old
Broken

Pay day, you're a winner

Pay day, you're a winner
Keep cool form a line
Scar'd money broke money
Bow money mo' money
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound make a wave run-up
While motherf*ckin' jammin'
You can get it how you wanna

There's math and there's dealers and players and me
They say that they're winners
Ok well let's see
You play there you play
The rules of the trade
The math of the date
The times and the age
But you want how you like
Aim high man why not?
Sun Moon and Starry y'alls
Each and all of y'alls
Mathematics and dealers and players and me
They say that they're winners
Ok well let's see...

Sweepstakes! You're a winner

Pay day, you're a winner
Keep cool form a line
Scar'd money broke money
Bow money more money
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound maker, wave run-up
Why wonder? funky drama
You can get it how you wanted it
'Who's the winner? ' said the dealer
Every player 'Yeah me'
So you say 'We will see'
Player play! hey ok
Whatcha want? how you like?
Aim high. Why not?
Sun Moon and Starry y'alls
Each and every all of y'alls
Who's the winner? Yeah me
So you say 'We will see'
Cloud breaker danger beats!

Ha! ok, let's eat!

Sweepstakes! You're a winner

Pay day, you're a winner
Keep cool form a line
Scar'd money broke money
Bow money mo' money
So sunny cloud breaker
Sound maker wave run-up
Why wonder? f*ck someone
You can get it how you wanna

There's math and there's dealers and players and killers and me
They say that they're winners
Ok well let's see
You play there you play
The rules of the trade
The math of the date
The times and the age
But you want how you like
Aim high man why not?
Sun Moon and Starry y'alls
Each and every all of y'alls
There's math and there's dealers and players and me
They say that they're winners
Ok well let's see!

Sweepstakes! You're a winner

Pay day, you're a winner
Keep cool form a line
Scar'd money broke money
Bow money mo' money
So sunny cloud breaker
Sound maker wave run-up
Why wonder? funky jammin'
You can get it how you wanna

'Who's the winner? ' said the dealer
Every player 'Yeah me'
So you say 'We will see'
Player play! Hey ok
Whatcha want? how ya like?
Aim high. Why not?
Sun Moon and starry y'alls
Each and every all of y'alls
Who's the winner? Yeah me
So you say 'We will see'
Cloud breaker danger beats!
Fresh plates!
Let's eat!

Sweepstakes! You're a winner

Ha!
...
Keep cool form a line
Scar'd money broke money
Bow money mo' money
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound make a wave run-up
While motherf*ckin' jammin'
You can get it how you wanna

There's math and there's dealers and players and me
They say that they're winners
Ok well let's see
You play there you play
The rules of the trade
The math of the days
The times and the age
But you want how you like
Aim high man why not?
Sun Moon starry y'alls
Each and every all of y'alls
There's math and there's dealers and players and me.

To the dark dark sea's
Comes the only whale
Watching ships go by
It's the day we try

It doesn't know

It's a Casio on a plastic beach [x2]
It's a styrofoam deepsea landfill [x2]
It's sort of made a computer speech [x2]
It's a Casio on a plastic beach
It's a Casio

If they hold you, whale
On a really hot day
When the call got made
You've gone away

It doesn't know

It's a Casio on a plastic beach [x2]
It's a styrofoam deepsea landfill [x2]
It's sort of made a computer speech [x2]
It's a Casio on a plastic beach
It's a Casio

[Yukimi Nagamo:]
Waiting by the mailbox, by the train.
Passin' by the hills 'til I hear the name.
I'm looking for a saw to cut the chains in half,
And all I want is,
Someone to rely on as,
Thunder comes a-rolling down.
Someone to rely on as,
Lightning comes a-staring in again.

[2D:]
I wait to be forgiven.
Maybe I never will.
My star has left me to take the bitter pill.
That shattered feeling, well the cause of it's a lesson learned.
Just don't know if I could roll into the sea again.
"Just don't know if I could do it all again", she said, it's true.

[Yukimi Nagamo:]
Waiting in the room and I locked the door.
I watch the coloured animals across the floor.
And I'm looking from a distance,
And I'm listening to the whispers,
And, oh, it ain't the same when you're,
Falling out of feeling and you're,
Rolling in and caught again.
C-au-au-aught again.

[2D:]
I'm caught again in the, mystery.
You're by my side, but are you still with me?
The answers somewhere deep in it, and I'm sorry that your feeling it,
But I just have to tell that I,
Love you so much these days.
Have to tell you that I,
Love you so much these days, it's true.

My heart is in economy,
Due to this autonomy,
Rolling in and caught again.
C-au-au-aught again.
C-au-au-aught again.

[Yukimi Nagamo:]
C-au-au-aught again.
C-au-au-aught again.

[2D:]
My heart is in economy,
Due to this autonomy, ([YN:] C-au-au-aught again.)
Rolling in and caught again.

[2D & YN:]
C-au-au-aught again.

On the cloud of unknowing
My world seems open
Every satellite up here is watching
But I was here from the very start
Trying to find a way to your heart

All the days are forgetting
They've gone out with the tide
Lost at sea somewhere, waiting
Like setting suns at the rodeo
Trying to find someone you'll never know

Oh, sinking love
On the cloud of unknowing
Every satellite up here is wanting
Waiting to see what the morning brings
May bring sunshine on it's wings

It's all good news now
Because we left the taps
Running
For a hundred years
So drink into the drink

A plastic cup of drink
Drink with a couple
Of people
The plastic creating people

Still connected
To the moment
It began