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Damon Albarn - You and Me

Damon Albarn - You and Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Everyday Robots
Released: 2014

You and Me Lyrics

I met Moko jumbie,
He walks on stilts through all saints row
Looking over the brew now, for a possession loss
People sound
No days off
In September, when the sun sets soon now

In you,
It radiates on you
On you
Seven high they're rising
Over on the other side
Of September when the sun sets sooner

Jab jab
Digging out a hole in Westbourne Grove
Tin foil and a lighter, the ship across
Five days on,
Two days off
In September
When the sun sets soon now

In you,
It radiates on you
On you
Seven high they're rising
On you
Over on the other side
Of September when the sun sets sooner

In you,
It radiates on you
On you
Seven high they're rising
Over on the other side
Of September
On you

You can blame me, blame me, blame me, blame me
When the twilight comes, all goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again

You can blame me, blame me, blame me, blame me
When the twilight comes, all goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again

Someday's I look at the morning
Trying to work out how I got here
'Cause the distance between us
Is the glamour's cost
Late night on the shop floor
What language was I speaking
Not sure I remember
The thrill and fall
Always in me
Let it go

You can blame me, blame me, blame me, blame me
When the twilight comes, all goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again

You can blame me, blame me, blame me, blame me
When the twilight comes, all goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again

On you,
? On you
On you
It's on you
It's on you

You can blame me, blame me, blame me, blame me
When the twilight comes, all goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again

You can blame me, blame me, blame me, blame me
When the twilight comes, all goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again

(All goes round again)
(All goes round again)

Writer/s: DAMON ALBARN, RICHARD RUSSELL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

You and Me

Damon Albarn shouts out the West London road of Westbourne Grove, which has been his manor for a number of years. It serves as the main road on the route of the annual Notting Hill Carnival in August. He told Uncut magazine: "Always after Carnival, there is this enormous residue of energy that hovers around for a few days. It's a Post-Carnival Apocalypse song!"

Albarn, who has long since been clean of drugs, addresses on this ballad his use of heroin during his Britpop days.

"Tin foil and a lighter, the ship across
Five days on, two days off."

The Blur singer began his relationship with heroin at the height of Britpop. He acknowledged to Q magazine the role that the drug played in his artistic growth. "I hate talking about this because of my daughter, my family," he explained. "But, for me, it was incredibly creative [...] A combination of [heroin] and playing really simple, beautiful, repetitive s--t in Africa changed me completely as a musician. I found a sense of rhythm. I somehow managed to break out of something with my voice."

Albarn also cautioned about the drug's risks. "It's a cruel, cruel thing," he told Uncut, adding that heroin "does turn you into a very isolated person and ultimately anything that you are truly dependent on is not good."

This is actually an amalgamation of two different songs, the first being titled "You" and the other being "Me."

The Moko Jumbie stilts walker is part of the carnival. In the song he's walking through London's All Saints Road and looking over the Brunel estate. Albarn explained to Uncut: "I've actually met the proper Moko Jumbie, when I went to Congo – he's represented in Carnival by the stilted people – that's a derivation of the Congolese Moko Jumbie spirit, a traditional tribal creature who travels around looking into people's houses."

The steel drums break in the middle of the song was played by a local London musician. Albarn explained on a Reddit AMA that "his pans represent to me the true ghost of carnival."

Damon Albarn - The History of a Cheating Heart

Damon Albarn - The History of a Cheating Heart Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Everyday Robots
Released: 2014

The History of a Cheating Heart Lyrics

More than you know
More than you know
When the river shallows
I always go
Back to the moment

I feel the most
I carry this upon my back, always
If you fall then I will put you back, I do
Love you but it's just a fact
The History of a Cheating Heart is always
More than you know

More than you know
More than you know
When the white owl flight's over
I always go
Back to the moment

I feel the most
I carry this upon my back, always
If you fall then I will put you back, I do
Love you but it's just a fact
The history of a cheating heart is always
More than you know

More than you know, I am beside you
Under the tango tree I grew
With my constant love forever
The history of my heart was shown

It's more than you know

Writer/s: DAMON ALBARN, RICHARD RUSSELL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

The History of a Cheating Heart

Damon Albarn admits here the intrinsic infidelity of creativity over an acoustic guitar and string figure. Uncut magazine asked the Blur frontman if it thinks the pursuit of an artistic vision is damaging to emotional stability? He replied: "I think it definitely can be. Because, as a songwriter, you need to feel stuff for it to come out honestly. And how do you do that? You do that by being curious, and curiosity is a very open book for a lot of f--k-ups in life."

Albarn explained the song's meaning to The Sun: "I'd talk about relationships with my family, from childhood to now," he said. "It's driven by mistakes, happiness, dreams, expectations. How you find yourself locked in cycles and how you get out of them."

"I know that my experience is very similar to other people," he continued. "I'm offering some of the more difficult stuff. I'm posing a question to everyone else as well."

Damon Albarn - Hostiles

Damon Albarn - Hostiles Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Everyday Robots
Released: 2014

Hostiles Lyrics

When the serve is done
And the parish shuffled some
And the May frequencies come
To keep you away
When your body aches
From the arms of dreams you keep
And the hours passed by
Just left on repeat

It'll be a silent day
I'll share with you
Fighting off the Hostiles
With whom we collude
Hoping to find the key
To this play of communications
Between you and me

When the LCD
Are all the player ones you can be
Put your foot down in the right hand lane
If you are with me
'Til the trains re-route
And the rush-hour is come
And the May frequencies
Have sent you to sleep

It'll be a silent day
I'll share with you
Fighting off the hostiles
With whom we collude
Hoping to find the key
To this play of communications
Between you and me

Don't burn so
Don't burn so
Don't burn so late
Don't burn so
Don't burn
Don't burn so late

It'll be a silent day
I'll share with you
Fighting off the hostiles
With whom we collude
Hoping to find the key
To this play of communications
Between you and me

Writer/s: DAMON ALBARN, RICHARD RUSSELL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Hostiles

Albarn told The Sun about this paean to 21st century ill-communication: "The hostiles are those characters in computer games that you just kill," he said. "They're completely soulless things given no character other than they're hostile to you."

"I felt the blankness of just kidding, the passive aggression that exists in computer games," Albarn continued. "It's kind of weird. However, I know I'm getting Grand Theft Auto 5!"

Damon Albarn told The Observer that he wrote this song after spending Christmas at his mother-in-law's house, "spending hours on the sofa playing The Dark Knight video game with my daughter, just zapping these endless characters with no real humanity."

Damon Albarn - Parakeet

Damon Albarn - Parakeet Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Everyday Robots
Released: 2014

Parakeet Lyrics

Parakeet

Albarn wanted to write a song about how the parakeets (wild parrots) of London sound like space invaders. This is the result. He explained to The Sun: "You're unaware at first but then you look up and there's a flash of color and this alien sound."

Damon Albarn - Seven High

Damon Albarn - Seven High Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Everyday Robots
Released: 2014

Seven High Lyrics

Seven High

Albarn said to The Sun of this minute-long instrumental: "It's good to have a pause sometimes. I think it's nice in a story to have moments where it just becomes completely abstract."

Damon Albarn - Photographs (You Are Taking Now)

Damon Albarn - Photographs (You Are Taking Now) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Everyday Robots
Released: 2014

Photographs (You Are Taking Now) Lyrics

When the photographs you're taking now
Are taken down again
When the heavy clouds that hide the sun
Have gone
The millions of us on the hill
From the star to lands end
When photographs you're taking now
Are taken now, press send

This is a precious opportunity
Beware of the photographs you are taking now

We are flying over black sands
In a glass aeroplane
Crashing in slow motion in another cityscape game
Where the feeling is supernatural
Like passing into other worlds
We're ending this dissolution when the mother-ship it explodes

When the photographs you're taking now
Are taken down again
When the heavy clouds that hide the sun
Have gone
The millions of us on the hill
From the star to lands end
When photographs you're taking now
Are taken now, press send

We were walking as zombies on over
To the church of John Coltrane
Arizona bus from sunset be freedom taking cocaine
In the paints and chords of nature
All is but a vanity
And the metronome knows that defeats you is the monochrome that you seek

When the photographs you're taking now
Are taken down again
When the heavy clouds that hide the sun
Have gone
The millions of us on the hill
From the star to lands end
When photographs you're taking now
Are taken now, press send

This is a precious opportunity
Beware of the photographs you are taking now

Photographs you are taking now
Photographs you are taking now

Writer/s: DAMON ALBARN, RICHARD RUSSELL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Photographs (You Are Taking Now)

Albarn explained the story of this song to The Sun: "When we had the eclipse in 1999, I went down to Devon, like everybody else," he said. "From my house down there, you can see a long way down the coast. It was a classic British moment – a white lead sky and/be no indication of an historic event. Everyone was taking photographs of NOTHING. That became the event, this endless flashing of light all the way down the coast. In this song, that's what I got the emotional tug from."

"The first verse is about a recurring childhood dream," Albarn continued. "I'm flying in this slowly crashing aeroplane and it would always fly over black sand beaches. In 1996 I was going through channels in some country, and saw a documentary about Iceland. There were black sand beaches and it was almost like a bell going off in my head. A couple of months later, I was in Iceland and it had a profound effect on me."

"The second part is about a bus journey (with Blur) from Los Angeles to San Francisco to see The Church of John Coltrane, a mad place dedicated to Coltrane," he added. "We were very, very excited about it and got there zonked out on a beautiful autumn morning at about seven."

The song contains a sample of writer Timothy Leary talking the listener through a trip on LSD. It is taken from the audio book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.