THE NOW NOW
Calling the world from isolation
Cos right now that’s the ball where we be chained
And if you’re coming back to find me
You better have good aim
Shoot it true
I need you in the picture
That’s why I’m calling you
I’m the lonely twin the left hand
Reset myself and get back on track
I don’t want this isolation
See the state of me now
Calling the hunter with the rifle
Cos right now that’s the ball where we be chained
Shoot it true
I want you in the picture
That’s why I’m calling you
I’m the lonely twin the left hand
Reset myself and get back on track
I don’t want this isolation
See the state I’m in now
If I pick it up when I know that it’s broken
Do I put it back
Or do I head out onto the lonesome trail
and let you down
I’m the lonely twin the left hand
Reset myself and get back on track
I don’t want this isolation
I see the state of you now
Written & performed by Gorillaz & George Benson. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control, Triangle Music (BMI) administered by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI). Guitar by George Benson
Oscillate, yourself tonight
When you’re in your bed
Assimilate the dopamine
Passing through your head
When you get back on a Saturday night
And the room is caving in
Do you look like me
Do you feel like me
Do you turn into your effigy
Do you dance like this forever
See yourself in Cupid’s lake chipped in your head
Do you indicate to satellites
Passing by the edge
When you get back on a Saturday night
And your head is caving in
Do you look like me
Do you feel like me
Do you turn into your effigy
Do you dance like this forever
Do you look like me
Do you burn like me
Do you turn into your effigy
Do you look like this forever
Do you dance
Written & performed by Gorillaz. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control
Hollywood
where the beautiful people at
i said
where the beautiful people at
beautiful people clap yur hands,yea
freaky people clap yur hands
geeky people clap yur hands
everybody clap yur hands
Hollywood is alright
Hollywood is vagrant
Jealousy is gunfire
It makes you kill the vibe
She’s a wonderful thang
Jealousy and dark times
Sinking on the web
There’s more to love than that
Jealousy is vibe down
Jealousy is vibe down
yea,iąm a go walkiną
all the way 2 the hills
but U never know
whats real
so u hav 2 b prepared
u hav 2 b ready
u hav 2 b ready
cause she can b a bitch
& its a wonderful thang
Hollywood
She’s so seductive
She’s got mE
lookiną 4 that dream
i bow down
she know’s how 2 do it
exactly the way I like it
Hollywood is alright
Hollywood is vagrant
Jealousy is in gunfire
It makes you kill the vibe
She’s a Wonderful thang
Jealousy and dark times
Sinking on the web
There’s more to love than that
Jealousy is vibe down
Jealousy is vibe down
She’s a wonderful thang
yea she can B dArk
bUt i loVe her
man i came through with a big fat chain on my neck
little did they know, no sweat
so I dimmed out, rimmed out, and cracked the glass
25 pounds, can you match that bag?
cuz if not, raise up
i got a deal to make
and a couple bad bitches i been achin to break
wakin n bake
I put the cake on the plate
jealousy and me, oh we making a date
I'mma vibe with this
Hollywood nigga, I'm gonna survive this shit
i do that, did that
blow your fuckin wig back
for reala, gorilla, who loves going bare back
they wanna eye me down, tie me down, knock me off
but I'm a lion in the dogg pound
now how that sound
She’s a Wonderful thang
youąre just what i need
(& its a Wonderful thAng)
n the city of dreams
(& its a Wonderful thAng)
U know how 2 ride mE
(& its a Wonderful thAng)
U know how 2 excite mE
(& its a Wonderful thAng)
she’s a wonderful thang
she’s a wonderful thang
Written & performed by Gorillaz, Snoop Dogg & Jamie Principle. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), My Own Chit Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc (BMI), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control, Datlilgirlmusic (ASCAP). Percussion by Karl Vanden Bossche. Featured vocals by Snoop Dogg and Jamie Principle. Demo recorded at Mondrian Hotel, West Hollywood, California
I’m not gonna cry
I’ve got more time to give
I’m not gonna cry
I’ll find another dream
Am I incapable of healing
The memory of my fall from grace in your heart
I’m on my journey home
With no fuel alone
Think I’ll coast awhile
I’m not gonna cry
I’ve got more time to give
I’m not gonna cry
Find another dream
Cause I’m about to solve it
Put my engine back in to over drive
So I can breathe again
Photosynthesis again
With the green hills of my home
I’m not gonna cry
I’ve got more time to give
I’m not gonna cry
Find another dream
But if I got it right you’d tell me
And if I was wrong then I disappear
Cos I’m incapable
Written & performed by Gorillaz. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control. Demo recorded at The Raphael Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri
Hey, what is this drumming I’m hearing now
All over me
Everybody cool down
Everybody see yourself
Everybody on time on time
Everybody hold on
Everybody hold on to your innervision
Hey, what is this drumming I’m hearing now
All over me
Everybody cool down
Everybody see yourself
Everybody on time on time
Everybody mining
Everybody mining their own innervision
Everybody lie down
Everybody pool light
Everybody on time all the time
Everybody hold on
Everybody hold on to your innervision
Written & performed by Gorillaz. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control. Bass by Junior Dan. Additional vocals by Abra
I landed on the silver lake washed and feeling blue
Heard the sound of footsteps drifting softly to the moon
Looking for clear water I had to take control
Out there in the wilderness
Another bullet hole
Playing it all for gods
Yesterday
Idaho Idaho
There’s a beauty on the road
Everyday I look out on the bus
At silver linings getting lost
Floated out into the woods to hear the old elk call
Touched the rainbow with my hands on dry I got them all
Ride on said the king of cool you’ve got nothing to lose
Tinsel town is down the road it’s the bullet or the noose
If you’re playing it all for gods
Faraway
Idaho Idaho
There’s a beauty on the road
But everyday I look out on the bus
At silver linings getting lost
Written & performed by Gorillaz. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control. Demo recorded at Knob Hill Inn, Ketchum, Idaho
It came to me
Build a tunnel from Zurich to New York
I find it hard to share this with anyone
Because even to me it sounded ridiculous
But one morning
After a long complicated night
I made my mind up
To share my vision with the world
Everything that follows I’m not responsible for
Written & performed by Gorillaz. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control. Demo recorded at Marriott Hotel, Zurich
I’m on the high ridge looking down
While we’re evolving in it all
If I get back then I’ll be grateful
Look there’s a billboard on the moon
Let me take you this far
This crossing isn’t much to me
There’s lightning in the storm clouds
And I’ll send you them this day
You’ve got me lost in magic city
You’ve got me questioning it all
I hope I make it home by Wednesday
And this magic city lets me go
Magic City, Magic City
You put me up here in the penthouse
And painted me in red, white and blue
I filled the canyons with my ego
Look there’s a billboard on the moon
You got me lost in Magic City
You got me questioning it all
I hope that I make it home by Wednesday
And this magic city lets me go
Written & performed by Gorillaz. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control. Additional Guitar by Graham Coxon. Demo recorded at Delano South Beach, Miami, Florida
If you see me floating too many times
My face will be painted in these white brick lines
Cos all my fears invaded
All the crazies put on buses and sent up here to find you
Living on the limits
And if you say goodbye too many times
The centenors will find me and switch me off this time
Cos all my fears evaded
All the crazies put on buses and sent up here to find you
Living on the limits
If all you ever get from the sonnet is the count of the fallen man
Every call and cost made to your heart
You where in the kind of game that put the force in me
I was ever chasing fireflies
Sometimes I follow a firefly it takes me into the night
Baby I just survived, I got drunk, I’m sorry, am I losing you
Written & performed by Gorillaz. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control
Every sound
Every sound in every world receiving
Every world receiving you
Anyone not anyone of us who isn’t searching
Everyone’s receiving you
Gone by the low lake
Deep in the summer day I’ll be there with you
That’s where I heard it for myself
On the training ground for the new world
You heard it too
Written & performed by Gorillaz. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control. Demo recorded at Marriott Hotel, Zurich
LA why you’re so complicated for me
Twilight
Waiting on the planet to turn to me
Dark side
If loving you’s a felany now that I’m a renegade
Riding
Trying to find tomorrow ain’t easy until you
Dive in
Swimming pools
Why you rolling waves over me now that’s all I need
Dreaming
Waiting on LA to come find me
Be forgiven
I’ll be a regular guy for you I’ll never said I’d do that
Why you looking so beautiful to me now, when you so sad
I will always think about you
That’s why I’m calling you back on my way through
I want to stay with you for a long time I want to be
Stone love
I wanna see LA in your eyes when I’m leaving with
Your love
I will always think about you
That’s why I’m calling you back
Cos I got to run soon
Written & performed by Gorillaz. Published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Warner Chappell Music Ltd, Copyright Control. Demo recorded at Mondrian Hotel, West Hollywood, California
Produced by Gorillaz, James Ford & Remi Kabaka
Mixed & engineered by Stephen Sedgwick at Studio 13. Assisted by Samuel Egglenton. Additional engineering on track 1 by Mark Decozio at Brick Road Studios, Scottsdale AZ. Additional recording on Track 3 at The Compound, LA. Live Music co-ordination by Stuart Lowbridge
Mastered by John Davis at Metropolis Studios, London
Artwork by J.C. Hewlett with assistance from Stars Redmond
Gorillaz would like to thank
Seye Adelekan, Matthew Allen, Kyle Andrada, Chris Aram, Paul Baines, Lucy Bell, Jehnny Beth, Pauline Black, Jack Black, Michael Brancato, Richard Bray, Bootie Brown, Kazy Brown, Matthew Bulbrook, Nic Burlace, Matt Butcher, Dylan Byrne, Niamh Byrne, Edward Caruana, David Casillas, Orla Clarke, Paula Clarke, Claudine Colier, Greg Correia, Tom Corson, Chris Cuff, Bram Depaepe, Joshua Doyle, Blaine Dracup, Craig Duffy, Marcus Duffy, Jason Dunk, DRAM, Harris Elliot, Dylan Etherington, Darren Evans, Peven Everett, Laura Fennel, Flume, Rebecca Freckleton, Stephen Gallagher, Alan ‘Buddy‘ Goulding, Adrian Grau, Suzi Grossman, Dave Guerin, Jesse Hackett, Andy Hamwee, Mike Hanson, Andy Henderson, Denholm Hewlett, Kate Hiscox, Jerry Hough, Ian Huffam, Charly Hutchings, Holly James, Simon Jayes, Steve Jeffery, Glenn Jenkins, Mattie Jobson, Dave Joliceour, Fabia Jones Russell, Zebra Katz, Nisa Kelly, Nick Kelsey, Ellie Kemp, James Kerridge, Daniel Kirby, Yose Lawson, Lichael Leikvold, Miles Leonard, Izzy Lo Iacono, Brian Loucks, Max Lousada, Petra Luke, Shadein Mars, Vincent Mason, Kelvin Mercer, Ethan Merfy, MGMT, Mark Mitchell, MikeWillMadeIt, Régine Moylett, Brídín Murphy Mitchell, Michelle Ndegwa, Claire O‘Brien, Thomas O‘Malley, Ade Omotayo, Rob Owen, Popcaan, Matt Pitman, Perttu Porter, Richard Porter, Gaby Power, Jamie Principle, Michael Pukownik, Christopher Quinn, Adam Raby, Dave Rajan, Ariel Rechtshaid, Stars Redmond, Greg Rice, Torus Robertson, Kerry Rothenbach, Stephen ‘Rusty‘ Russell, Andrew Rye, Holly Sandeman, Ben Shapiro, Evan Silver, Angel Silvera, Little Simz, Tina Skinner, Kev Smith, Mike Smith, Jo Smith, Chris Spiers, Joel Stanley, Vince Staples, Jake Sullivan, Marlene Tsuchii, Tanyel Vahdettin, Karl Vanden Bossche, Patrick Vansteelant, Jason Varner, Ali Viles, Gabriel Wallace, Johnny Winkler, Rob Wood, Keong Woo, Colin Woodward, Jeff Wootton, Bart Yates, Danny Yeates and everyone who has given their spirit to the album
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