| “ | It's taking me out (Simplicity) | „ |
Simplicity is a track from the deluxe edition of Gorillaz' seventh studio album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez. The song features and was co-produced by Joan As Police Woman.
Background[]
| “ | It came from a jam, it came from three people actually playing together in one room, acustically, you know? | „ |
| ~ Joan As Police Woman, Hallelujah Monkeyz, JOAN AS PODCAST GUEST: The Joan as Police Woman Interview[1] |
Simplicity was recorded around the same time as Song Machine Theme Tune was being finished. Joan said that the recording of the song was not planned before and was more similar to a long jam session with Damon and Remi. She also said that the lyrics for Simplicity were made on the spot and they were using a lot of "nonsense words" while making the song.[1]
Simplicity was eventually released on the deluxe edition of the Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez.
Lyrics[]
[Intro: Joan as Police Woman]
It's starting to pour,
Why don't we go out in it and dance on the pavement?
Oh, abandon your wars
The sky and thunder and lightning and rain are innocent
It's tipping down, I can't see
But I don't really 'cause I'm dancing on the pavement
Oh, say can you see?
The sky and thunder and lightning and Heaven's open for us
[Chorus: 2-D]
Shut in, don't know, no, no, to be shut in
Don't know, not meant to be shut in
Don't know, camera, sicken, now come, you're alive, oh
It's taking me out (Simplicity)
[Verse: 2-D]
Night time and I go smooth some off
Negative and now it's red and I chime in strong
Are you ever really lost?
You cuttin' cardboard
Watchers waitin', we had names
We had suspects, but a boxset caught your eye
And I was forgotten, I was forgotten
I am the architect of this delusion
The burgeoning load, one billion
These are amazing times
The past is a place where records take off
What now?
A burnished plaque
[Chorus: 2-D]
Shut in, don't know, no, no, to be shut in
Don't know, not meant to be shut in
Don't know, camera, sicken, now come, you're a loss
[Outro: 2-D & (Joan as Police Woman)]
Simplicity
Wood pigeon, always you (Save her, save her, save, ooh)
Ingloriously (Save, save, saving me, oh)
I always hear you, mmm (Me, oh)
Simplicity (Save, save, ooh, oh)
Simplicity (Ooh)
Simplicity (The sky, it could make it rain instead)
Simplicity
Lyric Video[]
Trivia[]
- In the Official Lyric Video for Simplicity parts of the lyrics are absent and replaced with the text saying "Cant work out what 2D is saying".
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 HALLELUJAH MONKEYZ. "JOAN AS PODCAST GUEST: The Joan as Police Woman Interview". monkeyz.castos.com. Retrieved 2 November 2020.