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Some Kind Of Nature Lyrics

Gorillaz – Some Kind Of Nature Lyrics

Gorillaz · Plastic Beach

Hip Hop/Rap

Some kind of nature
Some kind of soul
Some kind of mixture
Some kind of gold
Some kind of majesty
Some chemical load

Some kind of metal, made up from glue
Some kind of plastic, I could wrap around you
The needy eat man-mades, they wear phony clothes
They sit with our picture up until they grow old

Some kind of nature
Some kind of soul
Some kind of mixture
Some kind of gold
Some kind of majesty
Some chemical load

Well, me, I like plastics and digital foils
To wrap up the sound and protect the girls
From the spiritual poisons you spill at night
Like phony clothes but I really like my...

Some kind of nature
Some kind of nature, some kind of soul
Comes from within us

Oh Lord, forgive me
Some kind of mixture, some kind of gold
It's got to come and find us
All we are is dust

Some kind of metal, made up from glue
Some kind of plastic, I could wrap around you
The needy eat man-mades, they wear phony clothes
They sit with our picture up until they grow old

Some kind of nature
Some kind of nature, some kind of soul
Come from within us

Oh Lord, forgive me
Some kind of mixture, some kind of gold
It's got to come and find us
All we are is dust

About This Song

"Some Kind Of Nature" is a haunting meditation on artificiality and authenticity in modern life, exploring the blurred boundaries between what's natural and manufactured in both human relationships and society at large. The song captures the disorienting experience of living in a world where genuine connection feels increasingly synthetic, with lyrics that juxtapose organic imagery ("nature," "soul") against artificial materials ("plastic," "glue," "chemical load"). Damon Albarn's melancholic vocals float over a dreamy, atmospheric production that mirrors the song's thematic confusion between real and fake, featuring ethereal synths and a hypnotic rhythm that feels both comforting and unsettling. The track serves as a perfect encapsulation of the *Plastic Beach* album's central concept-examining environmental and emotional pollution in equal measure. The repeated phrase "some kind of" suggests uncertainty and approximation, reflecting how modern life often feels like a series of substitutes for authentic experiences. The imagery of "needy" people wearing "phony clothes" and clinging to pictures speaks to consumer culture's hollow promises and the way people construct identity through artificial means. Musically, the song exemplifies Gorillaz's ability to blend electronic experimentation with deeply human emotional content, creating a sound that feels both futuristic and nostalgic. The track resonated with listeners who recognized their own struggles with authenticity in an increasingly digital and commercialized world, offering a beautiful yet melancholic soundtrack to contemporary alienation.

Comments (24)

Anonymous 2010-03-03 14:53:00

is talking about pollution and littering and how people can wear the go green shirts but they are really doing anything
Anonymous 2010-03-10 19:18:00

The comment down there about the universe and dust is great, no one could have said it better.
Anonymous 2010-03-16 00:35:00

When I heard this song I imagined a really creepy guy sitting at a tool bench in a basement. He's contemplating different ways to tie up a woman he has locked up in his house (the faint screams heard in the background I guess started me thinking that way). He's musing to himself of the different things he could use to restrain someone while also revealing his strange worldview in the lines about the needy and the phoney clothes.He's guilty about what he's doing, in his warped mind he's creating a device to protect the girls from the "Spiritual poison (I heard "we expel at night)" - I thought a somewhat clear reference to guilt over wet dreams. I really like my... the speaker breaks off leaving us to finish his thought - in this case I filled in the space with his wet dreams. Anyway, it was a weird reading but what can I say, the Gorillaz are weird.
Anonymous 2010-03-19 07:44:00

i love lou reed. not gonna try to analyze the song, just gonna go listen to some early velvet underground or transformer to get more of my lou reed fix.
Anonymous 2010-03-31 22:28:00

The song is voicing his view on pollution which was a subject of most his songs on the album. Also, these lyrics are wrong. There is no reference to mayonaise in the song.
Anonymous 2010-04-06 04:40:00

ya he does its just lou reed says it wierd. oh and where does it give any hint that is about pollution, beause its called plastic beach. thats just reading the title and guessing its meaning not actually finding its meaning
Anonymous 2010-04-20 19:35:00

to me, this song is referencing stratospheric aerosol geoengineering. plastics, digital foils, metals made up of glue, chemical load, wrap up the sun...It's mentioning some of the proposed composition of chemtrail materials. protect the girls from the spiritual poison expelled at night is referencing an idea that chemtrails are/may eventually lead to infertility.rhinestone eyes and superfast jellyfish also make references to this phenomenon. "aluminum, i crush your fun", "it reverberates in my lungs)
Anonymous 2010-05-13 12:04:00

This song is about our materialism. the lyric "but I really like my" then "some kind of nature" we people rape the earth of it's materials to produce our phony clothes and shiny cell phones. The "Oh Lord, forgive me" means that what they are doing is wrong, and it will come back upon us. The needy are the consumers we wear their phony clothes and eat their man made foods and we idolize the rich that produce all these wonderful things for us. The lyric I do not understand is the wrapping up the sun to protect the girls. It's possible he is referring to the tanned body that all girls want at a price thats hard to pay (cancer). The world culture wants us to believe we must lay in the sun for hours exposing our bodies to cancerous amounts of radiation all for the sake of looking good.
Anonymous 2010-05-16 05:54:00

For me that song reflects a humans state of mind - we' ve spending a lot of time buying objectively unnecessary gadgets and in effect we're forgetting what's really matters - our kind of nature - true emotions like love etc. So we should invert - forget about things like shopping and start to spend more time with other people and concentrate on our emotions.
Anonymous 2010-05-24 23:50:00

this song is simply about masturbation................................................................................................................................
Anonymous 2010-06-16 09:18:00

I was under te impression that the Gorillaz CD's come in some kind of plastic case, with some kind of plastic wrap.
Anonymous 2010-07-07 10:14:00

nice armchair philosophy guys...
Anonymous 2011-01-23 15:59:00

I always thought this song was about oil, a kind of nature, gold, plastic ... The only "nature" that we see in our consumer world.
Anonymous 2011-01-23 20:56:00

thank you for the lyrics ;)
Anonymous 2011-03-08 00:42:00

This song is about nothing. Jamie Hewlett is a druggie and his music means absolutely nothing to me anymore. I thought he was just a musical genius, but I guess no good music comes from anyone's sober mind. Fuck me.
Anonymous 2011-04-12 10:50:00

he was walking around his house with Lou Reed and decided to start naming stuff with his tape recorder while testing drills.
sardobi 2011-04-22 16:33:00

This song is being over-analysed, but incredibly under-analysed at the same time by other people. A simple summary is that it is just saying that chemicals and plastics are overlapping with nature and everyday life, that their influence is so great that the two blur. Especially with "Digital Foils cold wrap up the sun and protect the girls", this is saying that we not only affect the Sun, the basis of all energy in life, but also on a romantic and social level. "All we are is dust" is the fact we are the overlap; we are organisms of chemical, but form human relations and experience emotions. We are everyday life.
Jared Gaines 2011-05-16 18:38:00

its "all we are is stars" it shows the lyrics in the delux album.
Ira Hartling 2011-06-27 00:34:00

its "Some chemical loathe".
Petr Tomaides 2011-07-05 17:36:00

http://youtu.be/T4l0AKiT_ns?hd...
Ahmed Ikram 2011-08-23 12:33:00

some kind of nature.
Kasey Love 2011-09-13 16:01:00

this website blows.
Bell Bottom 2013-07-10 12:56:00

Jamie Hewlett? He's the creative designer of everything visual for the Gorillaz, at least he was... he's got little to nothing to do with the songs. Everyone knows that Damon Albarn is the frontman (songwriter) of the Gorillaz and there are many many other artists he worked with. Maybe you should do your research?
bore 2014-03-15 19:36:00

It's Barbiturates, not "with our pictures".