Gorillaz – Pirate Jet Lyrics

Perhaps an Ennio Morricone influence at the beginning of this song? Either way I love it, I just wish it was longer!

I think it's talking about...how we need plastics, stuff and products nowadays. it's really bad for eveything and everyone, but we need it. it's making everything sick but we need it. here's to us(success). the whole world's going to shit including us. we're a dying world.

i think it's about how bad mankind treats earths' water Sources,,wasting clean water & poluting the seas and oceans with our waste(i.e plastic)..that how i see it :\

It isn't about hating on plastic, people. You're interpretation is wrong. "The first time Albarn went to Mali, he was taken to a landfill where he saw people "taking every little bit, a little bit of fabric to the fabric regenerators, or the metal and the cans to the ironsmiths and the aluminium recyclers, and it goes on and by the time you get to the road, they're selling stuff."[2] When Albarn went to a landfill outside of London to record the sound of seagulls for the album, he noticed a juxtaposition between the way the two countries dealt with rubbish.[2] "They've got more snakes... like adders, grass snakes, slow worms, toads, frogs, newts, all kinds of rodents, all kinds of squirrels, a massive amount of squirrels, a massive amount of foxes, and obviously, seagulls. [...] This is part of the new ecology. And for the first time I saw the world in a new way. I've always felt, I'm trying to get across on this new record, the idea that plastic, we see it as being against nature but it's come out of nature. We didn't create plastic, nature created plastic. And just seeing the snakes like living in the warmth of decomposing plastic bags. They like it. It was a strange kind of optimism that I felt... but trying to get that into pop music is a challenge, anyway. But important."[2]" -Wikipedia entry for Plastic Beach

whether damon likes plastic or not isn't the point nor is it the fact that plastic, while beneficial in the short-term, is toxic to human beings & it will eventually destroy us. the "new ecology" he speaks of is not human-friendly & damon ain't retarded so i'm assuming he's privy to this fact. i also have to assume the theme/point of the album, along with this song is "doom" why else would there be a mushroom cloud (barely disguised as an island) on the cover of the album? this song is making light of this fact.

or perhaps the point is learning to adapt to & to recover from, the industrial & nuclear age.

Our minds have been hijacked by the pirate jet. We drink the medias plastic news, news that we have created, and we like it. So everyone grab a cup and fill it up with the information they push into our heads. We are still connected to the moment the news became plastic and its all good news now. So Drink!

It's how, in the end, everything is natural, and how Nature only makes for a reason, so don't be afraid, because what we don't abuse we re-use, over and over until we get it, because in the end, nature is everything and everything is nature.But as a whole, the album says don't mistreat that which made you at risk of it also taking you away. Being one with nature and being 'one with nature' are two different things.

I think it really depends on what mood your in, ya know? What ever someone sees or hears, it's how they interperate it. It's never rong nor right. It's how people hear things, music is the opening to the soul. I actually dont know what it's about, but I like to make more and more decisions the more I hear it.

It´s so great ... I love this record and could listen to it the entire day! By hearing it I always imagine that the real Noodle is with 2-D and Murdoc and Russel and having a party on plastic beach and all is good again ...Silly, isn´t it ?

Obviously only the writer knows the meaning of any song, but my interpretation is that it refers to the artificial we put into our world. Plastic just happens to be the current medium for this change.

so drink into the drink! a plastic cup of drink! haha.. good one