Follow Gorillaz online: gorillaz.com / gorillaz / gorillazband / gorillaz Stream Gorillaz on Spotify: bit.ly/1kvIyPR Official music video for the Gorillaz track 'Empire Ants' featuring Little Dragon.
Verse 1: 2-D] Oh, joys arise The sun has come again to hold you Sailing out the doldrums of the week The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you It's all around you, out here [Bridge: 2-D] And if the whole world is crashing down (on you) Fall through space out of mind with me [Verse 2: 2-D] Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising Blows all the shadows far away The falling of the whole empire, is here to hold you Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps [Hook: Yukimi Nagano] Little memories, marching on Your little feet, working the machines Say will it spin, will it soar My little dream, working the machine Soon like a wave Empires will fall And closing in on you They're going on Little memories Your little feet, working the machines Say will it spin, will it soar My little dream, working the machine Soon like a wave Empires will fall Closing in on you They're going on
I genuinely cannot tell anyone how much I love this song. It gives me everything I need to feel safe. I want this song to play in my afterlife, because that's the vibe it gives me. I love this album, literally everything on it is great
it remembers me, my little bike that took me to so many places "little memories" of me riding it and better times, the fun i had and the happiness i had that little bike was stolen from me. its a song that heals me.
@@rahe2141what are you talking about, plastic beach is like their second most critically acclaimed album after demon days, it’s amazing but not underappreciated
I visited Hong Kong two years ago and I remember listening to this on the bus that goes up Victoria's Peak and just feeling it was the perfect soundtrack for that moment, with the view of the city full of buildings and skyscrapers. It just made me feel so small and lost in that sea of people and neon.
The lyrics: Oh joy's arise The sun has come again to hold you Sailing out the doldrums of the whole week The polyphonic prairies here, it's all around you It's all around you, out here And if the whole world is crashing down Fall through space out of mind again Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising Blows all the shadows far away The falling alcohol empire, is here to hold you Rolling out and haunted 'til it sleeps Little memories, marching on Your little feet, working the machine Will it spin, will it soar My little dream, working the machine Soon like a wave that pass will fall And closing in on you they're going on Little memories Your little feet, working the machine Will it spin, will it soar My little dream, working the machine Soon like a wave that pass will fall And closing in on you they're going on
This song made me felt something unexplainable, nostalgia of unexisting time and place. i've heard this, but so far down the memory lane. Not quite close, always outta reach. Pain ? No, its a faint feeling of sadness from a past i never knew i posess. Why, is it just me. How ?
Casi 11 años de esta canción. Yo no la conocí en su momento, la habre escuchado algunos años despues de su lanzamiento. Pero en todo caso es, y probablemente, siempre será, una de mis canciones favoritas de todos los tiempos.
Hace mucho escuchaba Gorillaz, pero no me consideraba fanático ni le había puesto atención a sus álbumes por completo. Hace como 3 años me dio curiosidad y escuché Plastic Beach de inicio a fin, y verdaderamente me resultó una obra maestra, especialmente esta canción, me da una calma increíble...
It's crazy how I completely overlooked this album when it first came out. Now, 12 years later, I am really starting to understand it's real meaning. This song is a real masterpiece, I have listened to it 1000 times and it still manages to make tears come out of my eyes!
Listening to this makes me cry every time. It was the song I sung to my cat the day before he died. I just remember singing it to him, with the dull ache in my heart. I didn't know it was his last full day on earth, but I felt it coming. I will always miss him.
I know what it's like. And this was a beautiful act. Animals are also living beings. My parents didn't understand all the time i spent beside my ill kitten, at the last Christmas night.
Oh joy's arise The sun has come again to hold you Sailing out the doldrums of the week The polyphonic prairies here, It's all around you It's all around you out here And if the whole world is crashing down on you Fall through space out of mind with me Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising Blows all the shadows far away The falling of the whole empire is here to hold you Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps Little memories marching on Your little feet working the machine Say will it spin, will it soar My little dream working the machine Soon like a wave that pass will fall And closing in on you they're going on Little memories Your little feet working the machine Say will it spin, will it soar My little dream working the machine Soon like a wave that pass will fall And closing in on you they're going on
I pressed play, I started singing. Slowly I closed my eyes as I kept singing and when everything exploded ( 2:21 ) I just couldn't stop crying. I had no reason, I didn't think of anything, I just sang with my eyes closed. Or... Maybe... remembering my mom... she died of covid. This song is my whole life. Listening in 2021
[2D:] Oh joy's arise The sun has come again to hold you Sailing out the doldrums of the week The polyphonic prayer is here, It's all around you It's all around you out here And if the whole world is crashing down Fall through space out of mind with me Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising Blows all the shadows far away The falling of the whole empire is here to hold you Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps [Little Dragon:] Little memories marching on Your little feet working the machine Will it spin, will it soar? My little dream working the machine Soon like a wave, empires will fall And closing in on the womb, of who you are Little memories (memories, memories, memories) Your little feet working the machine Will it spin, will it soar? My little dream working the machine Soon like a wave, empires will fall And closing in on the womb, of who you are
@@matheustimoteo8384 I heard 'Soul like a wave in plastic fog, closing in on the moon; at who you are.' - But if I read along with OP I can't hear it any other way than what they've written.
And if the whole world is crashing down on you Fall through space out of mind with me Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising Blows all the shadows far away
when i was about 11 or 12, i was given a non-graded assignment in school to present a song to the class and talk about it for a few minutes. i chose this song. i loved empire ants SO MUCH back then and to this day i still love it so much. all my classmates watching me present looked so confused and uninterested as they didn't know this song and thought i presented something "weird" or "obscure". even my music teacher looked unamused? i do NOT regret it though. everyone else brought in mainstream music of the time (2016/17) whilst i introduced all these kids to a BANGER. i hope they're all listening to gorillaz now. kinda random but thought i'd share this anyway :)
this dude is nuts donut listen to the person so wack what the actual, deez nutz got em, when ... when did i ask. I didnt ask for dis infomatishion tanks.
How is Damon able to first make you relax and forget all your troubles (The polyphonic praire's here) to the point of wanting to take a nap, and afterwards make you sway slightly to the sides with the second part of the song. Just amazing. What an awesome album Plastic Beach is.
This Music video feels like a farewell to Plastik Beach album. Its like they sat together on the end of working, and just compiled every concept and scene and sketch to each song and put it here, its so nostalgic..
A special, special song. This touches my soul on so many levels. A masterpiece that I'm happy to call one of my all time favourites and I cant wait to sing it as a lullaby to my future kids.
This song will never stop delivering the most of love and soul that went into developing these characters. It reflects on the whole journey in such a bittersweet way. Even when Gorillaz eventually dies out, Empire Ants will live on forever along with other masterpieces under the band's hood. Truly mindblowing.
There's nothing quite like this right? I love Gorillaz, every song tells it's story, but this... This is just something that no words could ever describe how perfect it is. This song will be the closest thing we will ever get to perfection. From the second that it starts to the last, I just vanish from the world, and all my problems and thoughts become meaningless. I guess what I'm trying to say is that... This is a masterpiece. Forever, my favorite song.
I like to listen to this lying down. it makes me feel both weightless and heavy...like I'm going to float straight up, through the ceiling and like I'm going to fall straight through my mattress and the ground. and I don't have to be high either....beautiful feeling.
***** Oh thank god for that. I was worried in case people thought i sounded crazy or something. Glad to know there is someone else who knows what im talking about!
Unbelievable, how far music can take you from this typical world, everyday society, routine and government machine, and give you this feeling, feeling of peace. One of my favourite song from gorilllaz
Im listening to this album now and its resurfacing songs that I didn't know i knew, all the times my dad put this on in the car and me falling asleep to it when I was younger. It's so perfect.
Little Dragon is pure auditory sex, glad they have another fan on board. I recommend, underbart, it's my favorite little dragon song & video. Check out" klap klap" too
this song is so : beautiful, amazing, breathtaking, awesome, perfect, great, magical, astonishing, stunning, unbelievable, wonderful, lovely, excellent, exceptional, fantastic, out of this world and- Long story short, it's a masterpiece.
The first time I ever listened to this song I had just started reading 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I must have played this song on repeat at least 20 times. So now every time I hear this song I picture a hot and humid summers afternoon, resting upon a chair on a patio in some villa in Macondo, the sun streaming through the trees and fresh fruit piled up high on a kitchen bench and rotting on the streets. Interesting how music can do that, even though this song and the book have little tangible thematic similarities lol.
This song on quarantine hits brutally. Today it was raining while I was in a virtual class I started to hear this song... And cried for the first time in a long time...
It's weird listening to this, because when it first came out I never used to be into the Gorillaz and I remember listening to it. But now as I'm quite a big fan of them, they feel quite old, but a small part of my childhood.
0:38 [Verse 1: 2-D] Oh, joys are us, the sun has come again to hold you Sailing out the doldrums of the week The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you It's all around you, out here 1:17 [Bridge: 2-D] And if the whole world is crashing down (on you) Fall through space out of mind with me 1:36 [Verse 2: 2-D] Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising Blows all the shadows far away The falling of the whole empire, is here to hold you Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps 2:45 [Hook: Yukimi Nagano] Little memories, marching on Your little feet, working the machine Say will it spin, will it soar? My little dream, working the machine Soon, like a wave, empires will fall And closing in on you, they're going on Little memories Your little feet, working the machine Say will it spin, will it soar? My little dream, working the machine Soon like a wave, empires will fall Closing in on you, they're going on (Lyrics by Genius)
this just gives me a vibe of waiting for something or just calming. this is one of my favorite Gorillaz songs and for a reason. this song is really calming. it feels like I can sleep to it.
in this song Noodle is suffering because of the existence of cyborg Noodle. Indeed cyborg noodle is a "being" ruthless and able only to follow orders. This reminds Noodle the terrible past she lived when she was a child, the past about the project of the supersoldiers .....with cyborg Noodle it is as if Noodle's terrible past returns to the present. The machine may be cyborg noodle and/or the entire system of the world, that now is like a big machine. The little dream is Noodle's dream of a purer world and of a simpler life (remind the windmill). The collapsing empire is the actual world, where everyone have to work as they are machines (like the ants) and are included in rigid schemes (even mood schemes). The ones who refuse the schemes and live with different ideas (me included, haha ^^; ) are always easily targeted by the world (the empire). I think so ^^
Matteo Di Carlo The song's about the everyday person (the ants of the title), but a cog in the machinery of society("Your little feet working the machine"), who uses music("polyphonic prairies") as escapism. The first part, that 2D (Albarn) sings, describes how even as the world falls apart around us, music allows us to float away and above the disaster; the second part, sung by Noodle (or Little Dragon, however you want to see it), talks about how we trudge through societies obligations and niceties, using our personal dreams as motivation to keep going ("Little dreams,working the machine"), hoping either to make them come true, or to move society forward, instead of just letting it idle in place ("Will it spin? Will it soar?") Oh, joys arise, the sun has come again to hold you -The happiness that morning brings when something happens you expect. Sailing out the doldrums of the morning -Going through the morning calmly. The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you It's all around you out here -How music today washes over us, and takes place into our part of waking up. And if the whole world is crashing down on you Fall through space, out of mind with me -And instead of waking up calmly, and nicely... TO something, you wake up to a horrible life, a horrible existence, a horrible experience; Let your mind go. Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising Those are the shadows far away -When you finally leave, you look at the negativity in your life, your negative existence (by your standards) and you see that all of it is just 'warm air rising', or in your mind. In those shadows, far away. The falling of the whole empire, it's here to hold you Rolling out and haunted till it sinks -And while everything collapses, good or bad, there's a unification in how if all the world breaks and cracks, we all offer our hands out. But we know we'll roll out of the destruction, and sink back into the corruptive behavior our world is doomed to. Noodle (Little Dragon): Little memories, marching on Your little feet working the machine -Waking up, you immediately assume the position of moving the world. We've done it all our child-hood, and we've never had the chance to grow up, inside ourselves, because we've constantly moved the machine, 'with out little feet'. The memories of our childhood just march on through our head, whenever we think of this. Will it spin? Will it soar? My little dream working the machine -You have no idea how the world will go for you when you wake up. Will the world just spin- will it be dull, and crappy? Will it soar- will it be meaningful? Soothe like a wave It passes far -When we trudge through the day, we want disruption. We want chaos, and in our minds, it's soothing. Closing in on the moon From where we are -Having the chaos over-take even the moon, but just in our mind. It'll never happen. Overall, I believe this song hits on how the human mind thinks and how we are when we first wake up into the day, how our existence as an 'ant' tends to feel like an entire 'empire' on our shoulders. It just speaks of our feelings day to day. Routine feelings, because we are like ants, in constant routine, doing whatever we do. And sometimes in an ants routine, a human steps on it's ant-hole, and ruins a colony. We didn't know if that day would soar, or spin. Just a thought.
Mario Flores Garcia yes, indeed. But there are 2 things: the world is bad, but it is not true that the corruption necessarily take our souls, everyone can be stronger than it, it just depends by the character and the attitude of a person. Moreover a dream is not air rising and it's not dust. To tell the truth even this world could be only a long dream, the thing we call "imaginary" may be real or inspired by other real things. What we call reality is what is SUPPOSED to be reality and the same is about imagination. In truth the humans are not so onnipotent for saying what is real and what is not real. At the final this distinction itself fall down and all we can say is that there are just different worlds. So there is nothing illusory and bad in dreaming, and we can just say that actually we live in this world. Many humans have a so strong desire to give an explanation to everything, but it's a silly desire. I have not this desire. How I go on? well the world is so terrible, but the feelings can overcome everything and I had the luck to give and receive wonderful feelings. Not everyone are able to not be corrupted by the world, and the ones who are not able to do so, say that it's impossible, instead of admit their weakness/less strongness. it takes courage and stubbornness for living with a free mind. This had to be a reply to you, and it became a reply to the song itself, perhaps
***** perhaps I misunderstood what you said, but if you are saying that I'm having a cookie, you're so wrong. I just use my mind a little little little bit more than just for eating, drinking and sleeping. Surely I don't need the approval of the entire world, cause the world don't scare me, even if I had the entire world against me. If you are imagining me like a snob with suits who think to be a superior being drinking cups of tea, well you're wrong. I'm just a person with a mind and with a heart, and I'm not ashame to say it
My mom owned both the self titled and demon days CD. I remember she gave me the CD for Plastic Beach for my birthday. I had already heard songs like Stylo and On Melancholy Hill with the internet, but I wasn't much of a full album listener back then. Afterhk hearing the entire CD, I remember being awestruck with this song in particular. It is a feeling that is unmatched and in my opinion no song will ever match that feeling that I felt then. It was this feeling of nostalgia, sadness, melancholy, but above all, with a slight tinge of hope and joyfulness. Gorillaz has and always will be one of my favorite artists period. And this song is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. Even now, 13 years later, 27 years old, hearing this, still gives me vivid memories of the first time I ever heard this song. Thank you to my mom for me putting me onto Gorillaz and their amazing music...
My experience with most Gorillaz songs: I hear it once: this song sucks. I hear it a second time: You know what, this song is actually not that bad. I hear it ten more times: I FUCKING LOVE THIS!!!
that happened to me with the songs "people", "spitting out the demons" and "RockIt", now I like them a lot, but not as much as this song or "to binge", they are my fav
Took a lonesome late night walk in the middle of my city the other night when suddenly this song played via my headphones. Walking through empty streets in the middle of the night with this song, especially the second part, is a feeling i just can't describe.
*Noodle:* I make big part of the most popular album of the band and you just send helicopters to kill me in my favorite place. *Murdoc:* Yeah, you forgive me? *Noodle:* Sure, why not?
I just came from the tiny desk video of little dragon and I just realised how this people plus gorillaz make me love more and more Empire Ants (Plastic Beach)
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After many many years, people will listen to this song and feel envious for ones who lived in the era of Gorillaz.
word!
am one of those people
so glad i saw them on the plastic beach world tour
k shaw What? I loved Plastic Beach
I'm 11 and obsessed ^-^
This now became one of my favourites from Gorillaz.
how have i not heard it before
Same here...
I can say that too xD
;_;
Big smoke was here
2:15 When this part starts.... I start floating
We all
Everyone who hear that part receive an ascencion
Yes
Yes!
Como el meme xD
0:00 - 2:20 oh this is so calm i really love this soft rythm
2:24: H E R E ' S A B A N G E R
fr, I heard it in an edit and I was like, I need to listen to this song!
Joserx time to listen to the whole band😊
Yes ❤
Verse 1: 2-D]
Oh, joys arise
The sun has come again to hold you
Sailing out the doldrums of the week
The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you
It's all around you, out here
[Bridge: 2-D]
And if the whole world is crashing down (on you)
Fall through space out of mind with me
[Verse 2: 2-D]
Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
Blows all the shadows far away
The falling of the whole empire, is here to hold you
Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps
[Hook: Yukimi Nagano]
Little memories, marching on
Your little feet, working the machines
Say will it spin, will it soar
My little dream, working the machine
Soon like a wave
Empires will fall
And closing in on you
They're going on
Little memories
Your little feet, working the machines
Say will it spin, will it soar
My little dream, working the machine
Soon like a wave
Empires will fall
Closing in on you
They're going on
Thaaaanks Sarahi
Thanks
uuuu
Thanks i wanted to Sing along
te amooooo
The feeling that Murdoc had wrote this makes me think of life
Noodle: *creates Plastic Beach*
"Hey guys look what I made"
Murdoc: "WE made"
...or was it Demon Days?
@@chloe6947 demon days
@@chloe6947 it was Demon Dayz,
@@RecklessBucket2canonically speaking, noodle wrote demon days
What
This sounds like rain.
you are so right
Sounds more like sunset to me
this sounds like sadness to me.
@@aifatsuki for me sounds like happiness, i dont know why
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I genuinely cannot tell anyone how much I love this song. It gives me everything I need to feel safe. I want this song to play in my afterlife, because that's the vibe it gives me. I love this album, literally everything on it is great
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Underappreciated album in gorillaz discography
it remembers me, my little bike that took me to so many places "little memories" of me riding it and better times, the fun i had and the happiness i had that little bike was stolen from me. its a song that heals me.
@@rahe2141what are you talking about, plastic beach is like their second most critically acclaimed album after demon days, it’s amazing but not underappreciated
I feel like I could float away from the world listening to this
shoot some heroin while doing this, magical
Soman Hamid Don't use heroin, it's full of good drugs out there
I feel like i do Little Dragon's voice is pretty hypnotic
weed is better for this type of song
Agreed ma'dude ; )
I visited Hong Kong two years ago and I remember listening to this on the bus that goes up Victoria's Peak and just feeling it was the perfect soundtrack for that moment, with the view of the city full of buildings and skyscrapers. It just made me feel so small and lost in that sea of people and neon.
Rama Branch esos momentos que uno vive con un buen. Recuerdo de una bella melodía
You should listen to their song Hong Kong. It gives off the same vibe
Sounds like a great moment 👍🏻
Rama Branch ♡
That image… it's BEAUTIFUL
The lyrics:
Oh joy's arise
The sun has come again to hold you
Sailing out the doldrums of the whole week
The polyphonic prairies here, it's all around you
It's all around you, out here
And if the whole world is crashing down
Fall through space out of mind again
Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
Blows all the shadows far away
The falling alcohol empire, is here to hold you
Rolling out and haunted 'til it sleeps
Little memories, marching on
Your little feet, working the machine
Will it spin, will it soar
My little dream, working the machine
Soon like a wave that pass will fall
And closing in on you they're going on
Little memories
Your little feet, working the machine
Will it spin, will it soar
My little dream, working the machine
Soon like a wave that pass will fall
And closing in on you they're going on
Wrong lyrics
@@aritzsantariver what
@@disc_poser soon like a wave, empires will fall
I feel sorry for the people who’s never had heard this in their life.
me too
Amen
i rlly feel sorry for them:(
so true haru pfp
Depressing and Calming at the same time, my fucking kind of music
ikr you feel me.
depressing wtf
This is depressing
wow didnt know about that
this song is so relaxing
*_I went to the museum and nowhere did I see this work of art._*
I'm gonna steal this comment
Im keeping that one in my back pocket!
No but song aside (which ik is what you meant), the artwork for this is incredible
@@elaxiber8333 fr, why doesn't Jamie Hewlett have a permanent wing of some British museum by now.
This song makes me feel things no human ever could. Thank you, Gorillaz.
69TH LIKE BABYYYYY
This entire album was so ahead of its time
This song has a better feel to it when you play it really loud at home and dance to it , trust me .
+catsuidext While on acid... This music is stellar with acid.
+DarthFlages i bet it is xD
xD
+mirella Gonna try it.
+Amanda L
The acid ? XD
Little dragon's part it's like mermaids singing to you if you're high
100% agreed
Heck, I think so eventhough I'm not high
You know this from experience?
Yeah, I know this from experience
***** Ola
This song made me felt something unexplainable, nostalgia of unexisting time and place. i've heard this, but so far down the memory lane. Not quite close, always outta reach. Pain ? No, its a faint feeling of sadness from a past i never knew i posess. Why, is it just me. How ?
I feel the same...
@Ivan the werewolf Sweet rubbish. You life once. Now. That‘s all.
Same here 😕
same
I think that place exists only in your dreams, that song is just a key to your soul.
Casi 11 años de esta canción. Yo no la conocí en su momento, la habre escuchado algunos años despues de su lanzamiento.
Pero en todo caso es, y probablemente, siempre será, una de mis canciones favoritas de todos los tiempos.
yo también soy un fan latino que ama esta canción, un abrazo desde Chile hermano
@@daaanteee saludos desde Colombia, brother.
En efecto, saludos desde méxico
Hace mucho escuchaba Gorillaz, pero no me consideraba fanático ni le había puesto atención a sus álbumes por completo. Hace como 3 años me dio curiosidad y escuché Plastic Beach de inicio a fin, y verdaderamente me resultó una obra maestra, especialmente esta canción, me da una calma increíble...
@@daaanteee buena wn tambien soy chileno
This song will play at my funeral. I'll make sure of it.
Ha, a funeral that's nothing, this will play at my resurrection.
Teeiju Ha, a resurrection is nothing. I'll play this at my immortality party.
***** Not all the quotes are catchy...
i want to agree with you... but 'On Melancholy hill' is the song for me!!
I love you, i am doing this too...
The question is....
*HOW COULD MURDOC WRITE SUCH AN SAD SONG*
EXACTLY
it is because murdoc is murdoc
@@wowie7568 ok
@@wowie7568 ok
@@wowie7568 ok
It's crazy how I completely overlooked this album when it first came out. Now, 12 years later, I am really starting to understand it's real meaning. This song is a real masterpiece, I have listened to it 1000 times and it still manages to make tears come out of my eyes!
Yeah same here. How did I not get in to this sooner. The album is so good.
this song is not only still amazing but it also introduced me to little dragon so i'm forever grateful
same here
this comment will age like wine. I love little dragon and same here. Damon has introduced me to things all across the globe
Listening to this makes me cry every time. It was the song I sung to my cat the day before he died. I just remember singing it to him, with the dull ache in my heart. I didn't know it was his last full day on earth, but I felt it coming. I will always miss him.
Beautiful
He would of loved that x
I know what it's like. And this was a beautiful act. Animals are also living beings. My parents didn't understand all the time i spent beside my ill kitten, at the last Christmas night.
Beautiful. He was very loved ❤️
me too
Oh joy's arise
The sun has come again to hold you
Sailing out the doldrums of the week
The polyphonic prairies here,
It's all around you
It's all around you out here
And if the whole world is crashing down on you
Fall through space out of mind with me
Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
Blows all the shadows far away
The falling of the whole empire is here to hold you
Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps
Little memories marching on
Your little feet working the machine
Say will it spin, will it soar
My little dream working the machine
Soon like a wave that pass will fall
And closing in on you they're going on
Little memories
Your little feet working the machine
Say will it spin, will it soar
My little dream working the machine
Soon like a wave that pass will fall
And closing in on you they're going on
Noe Galindo Oh joy's arise in the beginning i guess
Noe Galindo I think it's polyphonic prairies here
thanks
thanks
oh joy are us
it is MY mental breakdown and I get to choose the music.
Y e s
Y e s
@@tblmoon forgot I ever made this comment but I guess people are still reacting
Y e s
Sorry but it's a fake-depressed girl comment. Obviously its a generalized opinnion. I don't know you, you don't know me
I pressed play, I started singing. Slowly I closed my eyes as I kept singing and when everything exploded ( 2:21 ) I just couldn't stop crying. I had no reason, I didn't think of anything, I just sang with my eyes closed. Or... Maybe... remembering my mom... she died of covid. This song is my whole life. Listening in 2021
I'm really sorry to hear that... I hope you're doing okay now, though.
∠(´д｀)
RIP mom!!
It also makes me cry for no reason. Love to you sergio.
i get the same feeling, i hope u are doing better now m8, my best friend passed away too and we loved gorillaz, life is fucked up sometimes
someone is still listening to this beautiful piece in 2022
Yes.
I can't get enough of it
Me bro
enjoying my quarantine
This song is the light above this very dark times
[2D:]
Oh joy's arise
The sun has come again to hold you
Sailing out the doldrums of the week
The polyphonic prayer is here,
It's all around you
It's all around you out here
And if the whole world is crashing down
Fall through space out of mind with me
Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
Blows all the shadows far away
The falling of the whole empire is here to hold you
Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps
[Little Dragon:]
Little memories marching on
Your little feet working the machine
Will it spin, will it soar?
My little dream working the machine
Soon like a wave, empires will fall
And closing in on the womb, of who you are
Little memories (memories, memories, memories)
Your little feet working the machine
Will it spin, will it soar?
My little dream working the machine
Soon like a wave, empires will fall
And closing in on the womb, of who you are
I thought it was "soon like a wave, in plastic fall"
At first I thought Noodle was the one doing the “Little Memories.” Part
tyubmX Ah I get it now
@@matheustimoteo8384 I heard 'Soul like a wave in plastic fog, closing in on the moon; at who you are.' - But if I read along with OP I can't hear it any other way than what they've written.
On live versions she sings "closing in on my...". I can't figure out exactly what the lyrics are.
I cried to this song, it felt like i was on a space ship leaving this dog shit world travelling the universe at light speed
*Hands down, one of Gorillaz' best songs ever, simply beautiful...*
And if the whole world is crashing down on you
Fall through space out of mind with me
Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
Blows all the shadows far away
Sooooo gooood 💕
Any like minded people actually want to do this with me?
This video is blocked in America for some reason so I had to use a VPN to watch this. No regrets. Beautiful.
What? Of the entire continent? :O
Dumb
But here in México, wich is part of America, this isn't blocked 🐢
@maripicelli achei um br kkkkk
@@cuentrofds achei dois
After 10 years im still listening to this
same dude
when i was about 11 or 12, i was given a non-graded assignment in school to present a song to the class and talk about it for a few minutes. i chose this song. i loved empire ants SO MUCH back then and to this day i still love it so much. all my classmates watching me present looked so confused and uninterested as they didn't know this song and thought i presented something "weird" or "obscure". even my music teacher looked unamused? i do NOT regret it though. everyone else brought in mainstream music of the time (2016/17) whilst i introduced all these kids to a BANGER. i hope they're all listening to gorillaz now. kinda random but thought i'd share this anyway :)
this dude is nuts donut listen to the person so wack what the actual, deez nutz got em, when ... when did i ask. I didnt ask for dis infomatishion tanks.
How is Damon able to first make you relax and forget all your troubles (The polyphonic praire's here) to the point of wanting to take a nap, and afterwards make you sway slightly to the sides with the second part of the song. Just amazing. What an awesome album Plastic Beach is.
I am so very grateful to have been born to witness Gorrilaz.
No matter how old a Gorillaz song is, it's still a masterpiece
Just to think theres someone out there listening to this, trapped in their own bubble, their own spaces and floating in their own ocean.
ya ever listen to this, go to the couch or lie on the bed then
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Yes. Its wack and amazing at the same time
Guess what buddy, I'm doing that right now
And is comfy
Dissociating and zoning out is not the same pls stop using serious terms for not so serious states
76 Industries Ah I see. Sorry and thanks for the reminder
this is my favorite song from that album and I just find that has a video.
same. Was telling my gf about it then found it has a video after listening to it for 6 years
I think Melancholy Hill is the best, not just of the album, but in all of Gorillaz.
Exact same position.
Baltazar Zuñiga Cervantes
Baltazar Zuñiga Cervantes tell me me more
This Music video feels like a farewell to Plastik Beach album. Its like they sat together on the end of working, and just compiled every concept and scene and sketch to each song and put it here, its so nostalgic..
This song will be in my heart forever... I promise
This genuinely is good music.
You're saying that like its some kind of surprise?
Nicholas Chinn Considering the amount of people who consider bad music as good, then, yes, because you don't find music like this every day.
But are you surprised to find that Gorillaz have good music?
Nicholas Chinn Not really. They always had good music.
Kaja g
A special, special song. This touches my soul on so many levels. A masterpiece that I'm happy to call one of my all time favourites and I cant wait to sing it as a lullaby to my future kids.
Probably the most calmest gorillaz song ;)
hi !! here a new track from Argentina, some kind of electropop th-cam.com/video/gKk8z1u-IhI/w-d-xo.html
My mom used to always listen to this, and I didn’t have a clue that it was made by Gorillaz and I’m obsessed with this song now
This song will never stop delivering the most of love and soul that went into developing these characters. It reflects on the whole journey in such a bittersweet way. Even when Gorillaz eventually dies out, Empire Ants will live on forever along with other masterpieces under the band's hood.
Truly mindblowing.
There's nothing quite like this right? I love Gorillaz, every song tells it's story, but this... This is just something that no words could ever describe how perfect it is. This song will be the closest thing we will ever get to perfection. From the second that it starts to the last, I just vanish from the world, and all my problems and thoughts become meaningless. I guess what I'm trying to say is that... This is a masterpiece. Forever, my favorite song.
Im just commenting to make you listen to it again. Because please do. Its wonderfull
Lillhogge I listen this song LITERALLY everyday! But thanks, can’t get enough of this song ahaha
Hong Kong on D sides is like that too
Amen.
Amen
I tried to sleep with this song, head full of dreams.
This is like if a loving mother was a song... Does that make sense?
Yesss so fckin truee mann
I've overlooked this gem for years. Previously Stylo was my favorite from this album. But Im glad I found this now, such a good song.
I like to listen to this lying down. it makes me feel both weightless and heavy...like I'm going to float straight up, through the ceiling and like I'm going to fall straight through my mattress and the ground. and I don't have to be high either....beautiful feeling.
***** Oh thank god for that. I was worried in case people thought i sounded crazy or something. Glad to know there is someone else who knows what im talking about!
+Iona Surtees well i got you but you just sounded pretentious, not crazy.
99superjesus huh? Well everyone is entitled to an opinion. I didn't mean to sound pretentious.
10 years…
I‘m getting old.
i love the way they went for a storyboard-like video instead of regular animation for this music video
there was supposed to be a music video, but im pretty sure it was cancelled because of budgeting issues
Man and I thought this song sucked, then I decided to listen to it again AND ITS AMAZING WHAT WAS PAST ME THINKING
IKR??
same with me, idk why
Things change
Para mi la mayoría de canciones de plastich beach son melancolicas
En especial mellancoly hill :v
Asi es
La mayoria de canciones de Gorillaz son melancolicas
"Melancholy beach" se tendria que llamar el album
Plástic** :v
Unbelievable, how far music can take you from this typical world, everyday society, routine and government machine, and give you this feeling, feeling of peace. One of my favourite song from gorilllaz
My favorite Gorrillaz song period
people who disliked don't feel so good inc.
@Roniimaru • 浪人 "Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good inc."
I-
good one🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mr Albarn I don't feel to good inc
Your pfp makes this all the better
if you are wondering about the artist is Jamie Hewll , he truly is a talented dude
*Hewlett
ajaja Hewll on instagram
!Zombeee Yeah but his name is still Jamie Hewlett
Im listening to this album now and its resurfacing songs that I didn't know i knew, all the times my dad put this on in the car and me falling asleep to it when I was younger. It's so perfect.
Es una de mis rolas favoritas de Gorillaz y lo seguirá siendo, es perfecta
This song introduced me to Little Dragon and I'm so glad of that. I fucking love Little Dragon.
And gorrilaz? :P
I already knew about Gorillaz, I have been listening to them since I was like 8 years old.
Same here!! I saw a video of a live version and it was love at first sight/sound.
What about To Binge?
Little Dragon is pure auditory sex, glad they have another fan on board.
I recommend, underbart, it's my favorite little dragon song & video.
Check out" klap klap" too
this song is so :
beautiful, amazing, breathtaking, awesome, perfect, great, magical, astonishing, stunning, unbelievable, wonderful, lovely, excellent, exceptional, fantastic, out of this world and-
Long story short, it's a masterpiece.
Feel the same
The first time I ever listened to this song I had just started reading 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I must have played this song on repeat at least 20 times. So now every time I hear this song I picture a hot and humid summers afternoon, resting upon a chair on a patio in some villa in Macondo, the sun streaming through the trees and fresh fruit piled up high on a kitchen bench and rotting on the streets. Interesting how music can do that, even though this song and the book have little tangible thematic similarities lol.
I need to go back to that book, I couldn't get through it first go
This song on quarantine hits brutally. Today it was raining while I was in a virtual class I started to hear this song... And cried for the first time in a long time...
It's weird listening to this, because when it first came out I never used to be into the Gorillaz and I remember listening to it. But now as I'm quite a big fan of them, they feel quite old, but a small part of my childhood.
I didnt believe when people say that music made them travel to another world...
Now i see everything.
G
Sida. A
Why???
How
listen to this song it's just like dreaming
0:38 [Verse 1: 2-D]
Oh, joys are us, the sun has come again to hold you
Sailing out the doldrums of the week
The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you
It's all around you, out here
1:17 [Bridge: 2-D]
And if the whole world is crashing down (on you)
Fall through space out of mind with me
1:36 [Verse 2: 2-D]
Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
Blows all the shadows far away
The falling of the whole empire, is here to hold you
Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps
2:45 [Hook: Yukimi Nagano]
Little memories, marching on
Your little feet, working the machine
Say will it spin, will it soar?
My little dream, working the machine
Soon, like a wave, empires will fall
And closing in on you, they're going on
Little memories
Your little feet, working the machine
Say will it spin, will it soar?
My little dream, working the machine
Soon like a wave, empires will fall
Closing in on you, they're going on
(Lyrics by Genius)
this just gives me a vibe of waiting for something or just calming. this is one of my favorite Gorillaz songs and for a reason. this song is really calming. it feels like I can sleep to it.
shit you could've warned me this was a masterpiece before I listened to it
yep hahah ,if u want to hear another masterpiece listen Breathing life niklas gustavsson
in this song Noodle is suffering because of the existence of cyborg Noodle. Indeed cyborg noodle is a "being" ruthless and able only to follow orders. This reminds Noodle the terrible past she lived when she was a child, the past about the project of the supersoldiers .....with cyborg Noodle it is as if Noodle's terrible past returns to the present. The machine may be cyborg noodle and/or the entire system of the world, that now is like a big machine. The little dream is Noodle's dream of a purer world and of a simpler life (remind the windmill). The collapsing empire is the actual world, where everyone have to work as they are machines (like the ants) and are included in rigid schemes (even mood schemes). The ones who refuse the schemes and live with different ideas (me included, haha ^^; ) are always easily targeted by the world (the empire). I think so ^^
***** oh, thank you (*^^*);
Matteo Di Carlo
The song's about the everyday person (the ants of the title), but a cog in the machinery of society("Your little feet working the machine"), who uses music("polyphonic prairies") as escapism. The first part, that 2D (Albarn) sings, describes how even as the world falls apart around us, music allows us to float away and above the disaster; the second part, sung by Noodle (or Little Dragon, however you want to see it), talks about how we trudge through societies obligations and niceties, using our personal dreams as motivation to keep going ("Little dreams,working the machine"), hoping either to make them come true, or to move society forward, instead of just letting it idle in place ("Will it spin? Will it soar?")
Oh, joys arise, the sun has come again to hold you
-The happiness that morning brings when something happens you expect.
Sailing out the doldrums of the morning
-Going through the morning calmly.
The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you
It's all around you out here
-How music today washes over us, and takes place into our part of waking up.
And if the whole world is crashing down on you
Fall through space, out of mind with me
-And instead of waking up calmly, and nicely... TO something, you wake up to a horrible life, a horrible existence, a horrible experience; Let your mind go.
Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
Those are the shadows far away
-When you finally leave, you look at the negativity in your life, your negative existence (by your standards) and you see that all of it is just 'warm air rising', or in your mind. In those shadows, far away.
The falling of the whole empire, it's here to hold you
Rolling out and haunted till it sinks
-And while everything collapses, good or bad, there's a unification in how if all the world breaks and cracks, we all offer our hands out. But we know we'll roll out of the destruction, and sink back into the corruptive behavior our world is doomed to.
Noodle (Little Dragon):
Little memories, marching on
Your little feet working the machine
-Waking up, you immediately assume the position of moving the world. We've done it all our child-hood, and we've never had the chance to grow up, inside ourselves, because we've constantly moved the machine, 'with out little feet'. The memories of our childhood just march on through our head, whenever we think of this.
Will it spin? Will it soar?
My little dream working the machine
-You have no idea how the world will go for you when you wake up. Will the world just spin- will it be dull, and crappy? Will it soar- will it be meaningful?
Soothe like a wave
It passes far
-When we trudge through the day, we want disruption. We want chaos, and in our minds, it's soothing.
Closing in on the moon
From where we are
-Having the chaos over-take even the moon, but just in our mind. It'll never happen.
Overall, I believe this song hits on how the human mind thinks and how we are when we first wake up into the day, how our existence as an 'ant' tends to feel like an entire 'empire' on our shoulders. It just speaks of our feelings day to day. Routine feelings, because we are like ants, in constant routine, doing whatever we do. And sometimes in an ants routine, a human steps on it's ant-hole, and ruins a colony. We didn't know if that day would soar, or spin. Just a thought.
Mario Flores Garcia yes, indeed. But there are 2 things: the world is bad, but it is not true that the corruption necessarily take our souls, everyone can be stronger than it, it just depends by the character and the attitude of a person. Moreover a dream is not air rising and it's not dust. To tell the truth even this world could be only a long dream, the thing we call "imaginary" may be real or inspired by other real things. What we call reality is what is SUPPOSED to be reality and the same is about imagination. In truth the humans are not so onnipotent for saying what is real and what is not real. At the final this distinction itself fall down and all we can say is that there are just different worlds. So there is nothing illusory and bad in dreaming, and we can just say that actually we live in this world. Many humans have a so strong desire to give an explanation to everything, but it's a silly desire. I have not this desire. How I go on? well the world is so terrible, but the feelings can overcome everything and I had the luck to give and receive wonderful feelings. Not everyone are able to not be corrupted by the world, and the ones who are not able to do so, say that it's impossible, instead of admit their weakness/less strongness. it takes courage and stubbornness for living with a free mind. This had to be a reply to you, and it became a reply to the song itself, perhaps
***** perhaps I misunderstood what you said, but if you are saying that I'm having a cookie, you're so wrong. I just use my mind a little little little bit more than just for eating, drinking and sleeping. Surely I don't need the approval of the entire world, cause the world don't scare me, even if I had the entire world against me. If you are imagining me like a snob with suits who think to be a superior being drinking cups of tea, well you're wrong. I'm just a person with a mind and with a heart, and I'm not ashame to say it
***** oh, I understood. That's ok. I like cookies, but I'm more glad if you eat it :))
Gorillaz has always been very special to me, since I was a kid. Plastic Beach is so full of bangers!
This song makes me feel like I'm floating through dimensions in space. So glad I got to hear this in my lifetime.
Masterpiece .
0:00 Before the Drugs
2:11 After the Drugs
"I was gone with myself today,gone..."
@@Francisco-bm7gg IT'S A sleeping powder reference
@@Francisco-bm7gg It's "I was gone with the self of the day, gone." But I can see the confusion.
Put 1.25x speed
0:00 come up
2:11 peak
Gorrilaz is just so beautiful im so glad im growing up with this legendary band
My mom owned both the self titled and demon days CD. I remember she gave me the CD for Plastic Beach for my birthday. I had already heard songs like Stylo and On Melancholy Hill with the internet, but I wasn't much of a full album listener back then. Afterhk hearing the entire CD, I remember being awestruck with this song in particular. It is a feeling that is unmatched and in my opinion no song will ever match that feeling that I felt then. It was this feeling of nostalgia, sadness, melancholy, but above all, with a slight tinge of hope and joyfulness. Gorillaz has and always will be one of my favorite artists period. And this song is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. Even now, 13 years later, 27 years old, hearing this, still gives me vivid memories of the first time I ever heard this song. Thank you to my mom for me putting me onto Gorillaz and their amazing music...
2:24 that drop is awsome
Without doubt, one of the best Plastic Beach songs.
Totally agree
acho que é uma das melhores músicas da história, simplesmente
isso é pq vc nunca ouviu Cachorrão Do Brega
@@jacaranhaa nem trepada em cuiaba
@@jacaranhaa Pra que agredir kkkkkk
não
Si amigo
the beat to this song is arguably the best they've ever done :) ridiculously good song
My experience with most Gorillaz songs:
I hear it once: this song sucks.
I hear it a second time: You know what, this song is actually not that bad.
I hear it ten more times: I FUCKING LOVE THIS!!!
Same, i used to only like three or four songs the demon days album now I like most of them
I Know Right
that happened to me with the songs "people", "spitting out the demons" and "RockIt", now I like them a lot, but not as much as this song or "to binge", they are my fav
SAME M8
I was like "uh what's this."
And after a few times Its my favorite song.
My experience is more like when you hear a song 10x, but I feel like that immediately.
The way "arise" sounds like "are us" is honestly so pretty
Took a lonesome late night walk in the middle of my city the other night when suddenly this song played via my headphones.
Walking through empty streets in the middle of the night with this song, especially the second part, is a feeling i just can't describe.
This Is By Far My Favorite Gorillaz Song
This is the best Gorillaz song ever.
+its Nacho i feel the same hope the new album has more great little moments like this one
I wish there were way more Gorillaz songs like this , Damons voice works perfectly with this type of melody .
+its Nacho I kinda preffer Some Kind of Nature o3o
+Ol' Dirty Nacho Nah, heard better. You seem familiar to me....have i seen you in a certain discord server?
Probably Brawlhalla or something.
Las lágrimas que salen cuando te das cuenta que fueron los mejores 4:44 minutos de toda tu insignificante existencia.
Confirmo
es un misil al corazón, la lloras y bailas al mismo tiempo
Lo han sido desde la infancia
Insignificante así te sientes.
Si
Little Dragon’s voice in this is so beautiful wow
I just want Gorillaz in a *REALLY BIG WORLD TOUR* after they have released the album this year, I want them in South America!!
yaasss
+Stephanie Morales I agree
+Stephanie Morales Amén sister!!
another album? source please?
the album wont be released until 2017 ;____;
when it's rain here,I listen to this masterpiece.
6/5 :)
this is my absolute favourite song. i dont know how i didnt find it when it came out. its so beautiful
This song is just like when your team is losing 0-3 in the first half of a football game. The second half feels like they come back the game 4-3
I remember a time where 2d's pants were higher than my self esteem.
you've either gotten a lot of self esteem or you haven't seen 2d in an eternity
@@that_one_shark6887 hadn't seen him in an eternity.
lol
I hope that means your self esteem is higher than 2ds pants now
@@flerpynuggie1234 It is
*Noodle:* I make big part of the most popular album of the band and you just send helicopters to kill me in my favorite place.
*Murdoc:* Yeah, you forgive me?
*Noodle:* Sure, why not?
*Best Comment In This Video*
Epic
Meanwhile Rusell 🤡
Wtf
Who worte the Lost chord
The track shifted then Little Dragon started singing, and she carried the song. That's talent.
I just came from the tiny desk video of little dragon and I just realised how this people plus gorillaz make me love more and more Empire Ants (Plastic Beach)
N O S T A L G I A
hi !! here a new track from Argentina, some kind of electropop th-cam.com/video/gKk8z1u-IhI/w-d-xo.html
@@avalonerios que p*to spammer
@@evangg2.053 bueno amigo...es sólo música, no tenes xq reaccionar asi, hay mucho trabajo detrás de un link. saludos
10 years have passed since I first listened to it, and it's still my favorite 💖