Gorillaz isn’t quite like any other band on the planet—and maybe that’s what’s kept them so relevant for almost 25 years.
The virtual band was formed by Blur singer-songwriter Damon Albarn and visual artist Jamie Hewlett, consisting mostly of four animated fictional characters. Of course, that hasn’t stopped them from taking the world by storm with their genre-melding fusion of rock music with hip-hop, electronica and more. Last week, they released their latest stunning album, The Mountain, and if you love the group as much as we do, just keep scrolling for some of their all-time best lyrics to use as your next Instagram caption.
For that tearful departure:
“If you’re leaving don’t make it harder than it is. Let me know so I can say goodbye.”
-“The Moon Cave”
For seeking clarity in times of hardship:
“No more bad news so you can sleep well at night and the palace of your mind will be bright.”
-“The Happy Dictator”
For reckoning with the swift passage of time:
“Everything is slowing down, yet everything is faster.”
-“The Happy Dictator”
For learning to bid someone farewell:
“You know the hardest thing is to say goodbye to someone you love.”
-“The Hardest Thing”
For choosing between being informed and blissfully ignorant:
“Are you deafened by the headlines or does your head not hear at all?”
-“The God of Lying”
For reflecting on the nature of dreams:
“The promises we make, they clock us in at night and check us out the next day.”
-“The Empty Dream Machine”
For the dreams that don’t feel real without the right person by your side:
“Empty dream machine without you.”
-“The Empty Dream Machine”
For when you can’t do it without them:
“I need you by my side, girl. Need you on my team.”
-“The Empty Dream Machine”
For feeling sick and tired of the abuse of power:
“No one can convince the invincible to be sensible.”
-“The Manifesto”
For remembering we’re all in this together:
“You’re not alone, you’re not alone, you’re not even close.”
-“The Manifesto”
For knowing someone doesn’t believe in the nonsense they’re spewing:
“Starring in your own show and selling your snake oil.”
-“The Plastic Guru”
For recognizing they’re more than one kind of truth:
“We believe what we choose. Is that not the truth?”
-“The Plastic Guru”
For still seeking your purpose:
“Maybe I’m a young man with a broken wing. Maybe I’m just searching for a voice within me.”
-“Delirium”
For when life feels like a dream come true:
“The fantasy is real, feel free, enjoy.”
-“Damascus”
For the love that’s unlike anything else:
“I don’t know anything that feels like this. No, I don’t know anything that hits like this. No, I don’t know anything that feels like this kiss.”
-“Casablanca”
For believing that anything is possible:
“There are stars far away that you might reach somehow.”
-“The Sweet Prince”
For accepting the fact that grief will always linger:
“There are scars that will never heal, so why pretend they’ve gone away?”
-“The Sweet Prince”
For when the music moves you, even if it came out before you were born:
“Jump back and forth and feel like you were there yourself.”
-“DARE”
For the peaceful glow that accompanies sunrise:
“Oh, joys arise, the sun has come again to hold you.”
-“Empire Ants”
For not being sure whether to listen to your head or your heart:
“Caught up in the conflict between its brain and its tail.”
-“19-2000”
For when your nerves are fried:
“On constant alert from the constant hurt.”
-“Dirty Harry”
For when you’ve been doing TikTok dances all by your lonesome:
“With the holograms beside me, I’ll dance alone tonight.”
-“Saturnz Barz” (featuring Popcaan)
For when you don’t get any rest because you’re making your dreams reality:
“My dreams, they’ve got to kiss me ’cause I don’t get to sleep, no.”
-“Feel Good Inc.”
For remembering to take it easy to carve your own path in life:
“My mama said to slow down, you must make your own shoes.”
-“19-2000”
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For when that highly anticipated moment arrives:
“It’s coming up, it’s coming up, it’s dare.”
-“DARE”
For the person who makes any bad day better:
“You are my medicine when you’re close to me.”
-“On Melancholy Hill”
For remembering the simpler times:
“Remember when I used to dance? Man, all I wanna do is dance.”
-“Dirty Harry”
For when you have the world at your fingertips but you’re still bored out of your mind:
“A whole lot of everything, but nothin’ to do.”
-“New Gold” (featuring Tame Impala and Bootie Brown)
For when being born with no rhythm doesn’t stop you from dancing your heart out:
“Rhythm, you have it or you don’t, that’s a fallacy.”
-“Clint Eastwood”
For when it’s time to take off the fake face you’ve been wearing all day:
“Gone with the self of the day, gone.”
-“Sleeping Powder”
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For that beautiful barrage of heavy raindrops:
“Rain is falling like rhinestones from the sky.”
-“Rhinestone Eyes”
For when you’re still learning how to accept kind words:
“On another note, compliments make me blush.”
-“Momentary Bliss”
For the love that you know will last forever:
“Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever, you and me.”
-“Feel Good Inc.”
For sharing a photo with someone who always makes you happy:
“I feel so isolated without you. I can’t play a happy tune on my own, so stay by my side, high or low tide.”
-“Aries” (featuring Peter Hook and Georgia)
For when it’s time to stop bottling it all up:
“When you’re keeping everything inside you it can only hurt you.”
-“Stop the Dams”
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For chalking things up to fate:
“What was scripted, the day before it happened?”
-“Momentary Bliss”
For when the bad times remind you to remember the good ones:
“When the case is out and tired and sodden, take it in your heart.”
-“Andromeda”
For lamenting the rapid passage of time:
“The world is spinning too fast.”
-“19-2000”
For forgetting how to love:
“I can’t see you now my heart is frozen.”
-“Rhinestone Eyes”
For feeling like there’s no point in chasing your dreams:
“Let my people go crazy, them stars falling, don’t chase ’em.”
-“Ascension”
For embracing the winter gloom:
“Summer don’t know me no more.”
-“El Mañana”
For when life feels like it was ripped right out of your fantasies:
“Just looking out on the day of another dream.”
-“On Melancholy Hill”
For wishing joy upon someone you care about:
“It makes me sick to think you ain’t happy in your skin.”
-“Momentary Bliss”
For knowing your future is bound to brighten up:
“I ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad. I got sunshine in a bag.”
-“Clint Eastwood”
For being extra thoughtful in your musical selections:
“Please repeat the message: It’s the music that we choose.”
-“19-2000”
For when you’re blasting your music for all the world to hear:
“Play my tunes loud enough to shake the room, what’s the hold up?”
-“Ascension”
For wondering if your life is too good to be true:
“Does anybody know, love, if we’re looking out on the day of another dream?”
-“On Melancholy Hill”
For that grumpy/sunshine romance:
“I’m yellow, he was blue.”
-“She’s My Collar”
For when something new is set in motion:
“Something has started today. Where did it go? What you want it to be?”
-“November Has Come”
For grooving along, despite the melancholy messages of the songs:
“Stop dancing to the music of Gorillaz in a happy mood.”
-“19-2000”
For when you’re getting better at what you love every single day:
“I’m useless, but not for long. The future is coming on.”
-“Clint Eastwood”
(Humanz via Parlophone Records)
For wanting to be someone’s shelter against the badness in the world:
“And if the whole world is crashing down, fall through space out of mind with me.”
-“Empire Ants”
For hoping they feel differently about you tomorrow:
“Maybe in time you’ll want to be mine.”
-“El Mañana”
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