Sleeping Powder is a song by Gorillaz released on the Humanz-era Gorillaz App and official Gorillaz YouTube channel on June 8, 2017, with a live debut occurring on the same date. It was released for streaming on Spotify and iTunes on 16 June 2017 as a single for the band.[1] The song and video were finished only 3 days before release.
Music Video[]
- Main Article: Sleeping Powder (Music Video)
The video pictures 2-D appearing in front of surreal, somewhat psychedelic scenes while dancing. The video both starts and ends with 2-D sat at a harpsichord, playing the same melody each time.[2]
It was written and recorded by 2-D alone only a few days before its concert debut at Brixton in 2017. Damon Albarn confirmed that 2-D, rather than Damon, wrote the song because 2-D felt "underrepresented" on Humanz. This is speculated to be an excuse for the fans not liking the lack of Damon's own vocals on the album.[3]
Lyrics[]
[Music Video Intro]
Okay, Last time
This is drugs
This is your brain on drugs
Any questions?
[Chorus: 2-D]
I was gone with the self of the day, gone
With the self of the day, gone
With the self of the day, gone
Gone, gone, gone
I was gone
[Verse 1]
I'm back, where are we going?
Seem to get tired of the morning dawn
With a basin on my head
I'm missin' all that I used to know, then
I get the kids to go
And I get up on with certain dread
And when I see the kissing down below
Easy life, I get right
[Chorus]
I was gone with the self of the day, gone
With the self of the day, gone
(Yeah, I get myself upright)
With the self of the day, gone
Gone, gone, gone
I was gone
[Verse 2]
I get dropped from where I belong
I take my pills and I get in the mode
And I take five to get it to load in
Even in the place
And I get my jeans on right
And sit in the rows and
Inside, I live in a cage and I
Peek out and summon the code
And I enter the lake to face what I'm cagin'
[Chorus]
Gone with the self of the day, gone
With the self of the day, gone
(Yeah, I get myself upright)
With the self of the day, gone
Gone, gone, gone
I was gone
[Bridge]
She gave me sleeping powder
I was gone
Gone, gone, gone
[Chorus]
(I was gone!)
I was gone with the self of the day, gone
With the self of the day, gone (Yeah, I get myself upright)
With the self of the day, gone
(I was gone)
Gone, gone, gone, gone
I was gone, gone, gone
I was gone
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- The cover for the digital single release of the track is the picture of 2-D from the cover of Humanz (shared with Andromeda), despite not being part of the album itself. The only time the song was included on Humanz was on a digital download of it on the Gorillaz website.