to anyone who has heard this song, what do you think he's talking about? i mean when i heard the songs a couple years back i liked it (though i wasn't into marijuana at the time) .... anyway i started smoking and i hear it again and i start to listen to it again for a brief perioud. anyway time goes by and i start to really research mushrooms at the shroomery as i am interested in trippin out on them for the first time, listen to the song again randomly and it really sounds like the dude is talkin about a baggy of mushrooms and not weed...... i donno , what do you guys think? here is the lyrics btw: I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag I'm useless,but not for long The future is coming on I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag I'm useless, but not for long The future is coming on It's coming on It's coming on It's coming on Yeah... Ha Ha! Finally someone let me out of my cage Now, time for me is nothing cos I'm counting no age Now I couldn't be there Now you shouldn't be scared I'm good at repairs And I'm under each snare Intangible Bet you didn't think so I command you to Panoramic view Look I'll make it all manageable Pick and choose Sit and lose All you different crews Chicks and dudes Who you think is really kickin' tunes? Picture you gettin' down in a picture tube Like you lit the fuse You think it's fictional Mystical? Maybe Spiritual Hearable What appears in you is a clearer view cos you're too crazy Lifeless To know the definition for what life is Priceless For you because I put you on the hype shit You like it? Gunsmokin' righteous with one token Psychic among those Possess you with one go I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag I'm useless,but not for long The future is coming on I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag I'm useless, but not for long The future is coming on It's coming on It's coming on It's coming on The essence the basics Without it you make it Allow me to make this Childlike in nature Rhythm You have it or you don't that's a fallacy I'm in them Every sprouting tree Every child apiece Every cloud you see You see with your eyes I see destruction and demise Corruption in disguise From this fuckin' enterprise Now I'm sucking to your lies Through Russ, though not his muscles but the percussion he provides with me as a guide But y'all can see me now cos you don't see with your eye You perceive with your mind That's the inner So I'm gonna stick around with Russ and be a mentor Bust a few rhymes so mother fuckers Remember where the thought is I brought all this So you can survive when law is lawless Feelings, sensations that you thought were dead No squealing, remember (that it's all in your head) I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag I'm useless, but not for long The future is coming on I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag I'm useless, but not for long My future is coming on It's coming on It's coming on It's coming on It's coming on My future is coming on It's coming on It's coming on It's coming on It's coming on My future is coming on It's coming on It's coming on It's coming on It's coming on My future is coming on It's coming on It's coming on My future is coming on It's coming on It's coming on My future is coming on It's coming on It's coming on My future i was always under the impression he was talkin gabout the insightfull benifits he got from weed, but now that i know some things about mushrooms and other hallucinegens, he seems to be ryhming about a full-blown psychedelic experience. im not going to disect all the lyrical content and tell you what i mean.... it just seems he is talking from the spirtual, "egoless" form of the shroomer (russle) and then speaking through music. he seems to speak of the liberation, and then the sense of familiarity.... how it gives you a greater understanding and appretiation for life, .. anyway there is more ... oh and the "righteous with one token" i assume he means "toke" .. so i guess that goes toward weed... although smoking marijuana often intesnsifies a shroomers trip....... so who knows what he was meaning.... i donno opinions? i like this song a lot... just bored figured i'd post and see if anyone could help me udnerstand...
They are a band in the sense that a bunch of different people recorded parts of it. The main vocalist is Damon Albarn from Blur, the rapper is Del the Funky Homosapian, the girl's voice is Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, and there's tons of others who had smaller roles. As for Clint Eastwood you have the lyrics really, really wrong. For example it's not "Gunsmokin' righteous with one token", it's "gunsmokin', righteous with one toke..." which is a refference to herb.
those lyrics were pulled off gorillaz official site.... so whether they're completely right or not .. i'd assume so, but who knows... i know they're right for the most part tho
But in the us radio version they censor out the 'toke' part. Why would they do that if the word was token?
i always thought he was the music talkin about how the music or rhythm affects you "I'm under each snare Intangible" "Mystical? Maybe Spiritual Hearable" "Through Russ, though not his muscles but the percussion he provides with me as a guide But y'all can see me now cos you don't see with your eye You perceive with your mind That's the inner"