Plastic Beach

Gorillaz Plastic Beach Lyrics
1.Orchestral Intro


2.Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach

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


3.White Flag

Look yo, no castaway no survivor
I ain't lost and this ain't shipwrecked
I feel small in this big wide world
And mummy ain't said
Honey I shrunk the kids yet
I ain't Jesus but I'm walking on water
There's no bombs here there's no war cuz
I can break out of jail with a lighter
So is there any point in making laws blood
This ain't Atlantis are you sure
I nearly suffocated with I touched the shore
No rain condoms get poured
And up the road you'll never guess who I saw

Skip on a beat like Ali in the gym
Honey I'm home this is where I want to live
Just found it like Nemo on the de-low
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 feds no stress no rent
No superficial shit it's real folk
Where the woman look hot but the beats cold
And the speech goes like hi little lady, sex on a beach
Wanna try for baby word in the village I'm a little bit crazy
Swagger on a hundred degrees no 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
White Flag, White Flag
No war no guns no poor just life
Just love no hype just fun no ties
Just me and my mic just me and my wife
But tell me if I'm dreaming
Cos I don't want to wake up till the evening
And I don't want to be left sleeping
From all the diseases that I breathe in
Look respect the island no stealing
And don't bring religion here no three kings
Integrated and we ain't leaving
We come on a peace thing
White flag? white flag.


4.Rhinestone Eyes

I'm a scary gargoyle on a tower
That you made with plastic power
Your rhinestone eyes are like
Factories far away
With the paralytic dreams that we all seem to keep
Drive on engines til they weep we're
Future pixels in factories far away
So call the mainland from the beach
Our pod is 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

Can't see it now my heart is frozen
All the birds and all that grows are
Tapping at the natives in my soul
I prayed on the immovable
You're clinging to the atoms and I'm
Seeing the adjustment signs of change
And I can't see now you said (taxi?)
The light is all that I can take
This storm brings strange royalties, 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
That's Electric

Helicopters fly over the beach
Same time everyday, same routine
Clear target in summer
When skies are blue
It's part of the noise when winter comes
It reverberates in my lungs
Nature's corrupted
In factories far away
That's Electric
Your love's like rhinestones, falling from the sky
That's Electric
We're future pixels in factories far away
That's Electric
Your love's like rhinestones falling from the sky
That's Electric
We're future pixels in factories far away


5.Stylo

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

Overload, overload, overload
Comin' up to the
Overload, overload, overload
Comin' up to the
Overload, overload, overload
Comin' up to the
Overload, overload, overload
Comin' up to the

Oh Stylo...
Go blossom in your soul
When you know your heart is right
Electric is the love
When the mako flies up from the bottom in your eyes
Then I know the twilight skies, not so broken hearted

This love is electric
It'll be flowing on the street
Night after night
Just to get through the week
Sometimes it's hard
Right now

Sing yourself out of depression, rise above
I'll be searching if I know your heart
Electric is the love

There's only one way
Let it play a little round longer
It's got a way of passin through man and woman
In another world
In another world, in the universe
Right now

Here's what we got to do
Yes, this love is electric
It'll be flowing onto the street
Night after Night
Just to get through the week
Sometimes it's hard

That's what I'm talking about
Love, electricity, shockwave central
Pummel on the motherboard, yes
Push up, overload, legendary heavy glow
Sunshine, thunder roll, keep it all together
Yes the lantern burn, burn that easy
And broadcast, so raw and neatly
Thunder roll, sunshine, work it out
Right now


6.Superfast Jellyfish

Are you kidding?
Yo, pretty packages of frosted delights
Look, it comes with a toy, haha I like that
I want a number four, a number six,
and throw in a plastic doughnut
Just enjoy the gritty crunch it tastes just like chicken
Wrappers of many bite size
Man, are you freakin? blind?
It's a rock
All mixed into pot for
Mama's home made from scratch, well not quite
Toasted over flames they be tasting quite right
All hail king Neptune and his water breathers
No snail thing too quick for his water feeders
Don't waste time wit cha net our net worth
Is set ready go, many know others (what?)
We be the colours of the mad and the wicked
We be bad, we be bricked with the 24 hour sign
Shower my habits while you dine like rabbits
With the crunchy, crunchy carrots
Well that's chicken
Gotta have it superfast
Superfast, superfast, I come in last
But just in time for breakfast
Keep it through, keep it true
Forever blue
Tonight, the night goes out to
Aluminum, I crush your fun, aluminum
The sea is radioactive
The sea is radioactive
All hail king Neptune and his water breathers
No snail thing too quick for his water feeders
Don't waste time wit cha net, our net worth
Is set, ready, go, many know others (what?)
We be the colors of the mad and the wicked
We be bad, we be bricked with the 24 hour sign
Shower my habits while you dine like rabbits
With the crunchy, crunchy carrots
Well that's chicken
Gotta have it superfast
Superfast, superfast, I come in last
But just in time for breakfast
Keep it through, keep it true
Forever blue
Tonight, the night goes out to
Aluminum, I crush your fun, aluminum
The sea is radioactive
The sea is radioactive
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish (Don't waste time)
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish (That's what I'm saying, what?)
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
Superfast jellyfish
.....


7.Empire Ants

Oh, joys are us, the sun has come again to hold you
Sailing out the doldrums of the week
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 of the whole empire, it's here to hold you
Rolling 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

Soon, like a wave
That pass will fall
Closing in on you
They're going on

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

Soon, like a wave
That pass will fall
Closing in on you
They're going on


8.Glitter Freeze

Where's North from here?

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

Ship him far!


9.Some Kind Of Nature

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
The man-made's, they wear phony clothes
They sit with barbiturates and filled with gold

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 the plastics
And digital foils
Could wrap up the sound
And protect the girls
From the spiritual poison
We expel at night
Like phony clothes, but
I really like my-

Some kind of nature (some kind of nature, some kind of soul)
Come forth within us
Oh, Lord, forgive me (some kind of mixture, some kind of gold)
It's gonna come and find us
All we are is stars

Some kind of metal made up from glue
Some kind of plastic I could wrap around you
The man-made's, they wear phony clothes
They sit with barbiturates and filled with gold

Some kind of nature (some kind of nature, some kind of soul)
Comes forth within us
Oh, Lord, forgive me (some kind of mixture, some kind of gold)
It's gonna come and find us
All we are is stars


10.On Melancholy Hill

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 up and see her
cause you are my medicine
when you're close to me
when you're close to me

so call in the submarine join the world, we'll go
does anybody know her?
if we're looking out on the day of another dream.

if you can't get what you want
then you can with me

up on melancholy hill
a manitee
just looking out for the day
when you're close to me
when you're close to me


11.Broken

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
Our love
Broken

Broken
Our love
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
Our love
Broken

Broken
Our love
Broken

Broken
Our love
Broken

Broken
Our love
Broken


12.Sweepstakes

Pay day, you're a winner
Keep cool from my line
Scar'd money broke money
Bow money mo' money
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound make a wave run-up
While motherfuckin' jammin'
You can get it how you want it
There's nothing as 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
Hey my man why not?
Sun Moon Stars y'all
Ditching all the y'holes
There's nothin' in 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 from my 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 d'you like?
Hey m'ha why not?
Sun Moon Stars y'all
Ditching every alley y'all
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 from my line
Scar'd money broke money
Bow money mo' money
So sunny cloud breaker
Sound maker wave run-up
Why wonder? fuckin' jammin'
You can get it how you wanted it
There's nothing as 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
Hey my man why not?
Sun Moon Stars y'all
Ditching every alley y'all
There's nothin' as 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 from my 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 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 d'you like?
Hey m'ha why not?
Sun Moon Stars y'all
Ditching every alley y'all
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
Keep cool from my line
Scar'd money broke money
Bow money mo' money
So sunny, cloud breaker
Sound make a wave run-up
While motherfuckin' jammin'
You can get it how you wanted it
There's nothing as 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
Hey my man why not?
Sun Moon Stars y'all
Ditching all the y'holes
There's nothin' as dealers and players and me.


13.Plastic Beach

To the dark dark seas
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
It's a Casio on a plastic beach
It's a Styrofoam deepsea landfill
It's a Styrofoam deepsea landfill
It an automated computer speech
It an automated computer speech
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
It's a Casio on a plastic beach
It's a Styrofoam deepsea landfill
It's a Styrofoam deepsea landfill
It an automated computer speech
It an automated computer speech
It's a Casio on a plastic beach
It's a Casio


14.To Binge

Waiting by the mailbox, by the train
Passing by the hills 'til I hear the name
Looking for a saw to cut the chains in half and all I want
Is someone to rely on this
Thunder comes a roaring down
Someone to rely on this
Lighting comes a-staring in again
I'll 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 its a lesson learned
Just don't know if I can roll into the sea again
Just don't know if I can do it all again, she said, 'it's true'

Went into my room and I locked the door
Watched the colored animals cross the floor
But I look on from a distance and I'm listening to the whispers
And oh it ain't the same when you've falling outta feeling
And you're rolling in and caught again
I'm caught again in the mystery
You're by my side, but are you still with me?
The answers somewhere deep in it
I'm sorry that you're feeling it
But I just love to tell you 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 an economy, due to this autonomy
Rolling in and caught again


15.Cloud Of Unknowing

On the cloud of unknowing
My world seems open
Every satellite up here is wanting
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 its wings


16.Pirate Jet

Its 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 the purple
The people, the plastic eating people
Still connected
to the moment it began

Its 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 the purple
The people, the plastic eating people
Still connected
to the moment it began