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Gorillaz - Stylo Lyrics

Artist: Gorillaz

Album: Plastic Beach

Genre: Hip Hop/Rap

  • Songwriters: Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, Dante Smith

Love, electricity, shock wave central
Power on the motherboard, yes
Push up, overload, legendary heavy glow
Sunshine, thunder roll, keep this all together

Lantern burn, burn that easy
And broadcast, so raw and neatly
Thunder roll, sunshine, work it out

Overload, overload, overload
Coming up to the
Overload, overload, overload
Coming up to the

Overload, overload, overload
Coming up to the
Overload, overload, overload
Coming up to the

Oh stylo
Go forth, blossom in your soul
When you know your heart is light
Electric is the love

When the mako flies
Up from the bottom in your eyes
Then I know the twilight skies
Not so broken-hearted

Yes, this love is electric
It'll be flowing on the streets
Night after night
Just to get through the week, sometimes it's hard
Right now

Sing yourself out of depression, rise above
I'll be searching if I know your heart
Electric is the love

There's only one way
(Overload, overload, overload)
Let it pray a little while longer
(Coming up to the overload, overload, overload)

It's got a way of passing
(Coming up to the)
Through man and woman in another world
(Overload, overload, overload)

In another world, in the universe
(Coming up to the overload)
Oh
(Overload, overload, coming up to the)

Right now
Here's what we got to do

Yes, this love is electric
(Overload, overload, overload, coming up to the)
It'll be flowing onto the street
(Overload, overload, overload, coming up to the)

Night after night
(Overload, overload, overload, coming up to the)
Just to get through the week
(Overload, overload, overload)
Sometimes it's hard
(Coming up to the)

That's what I'm talking about

Love, electricity, shock wave central
Pummel on the motherboard, yes
Push up, overload, legendary heavy glow
Sunshine, thunder roll, keep this all together

The lantern burn, burn that easy
And broadcast, so raw and neatly
Thunder roll, sunshine, work it out
Right now


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  • Cristian David Ramirez Aguilar

    this is a great song!!!

  • Russell Martin

    How the hell did I miss this album for a whole year? Awesome!

  • Anonymous

    well i love gorillaz, its my fav band, but in all honesty the first album is the best, a lil more upbeat, then as it progresses to plastic beach and the fall it does get more meloncholy, not their best but still pretty chill. On the subject of the meaning, i think plastic beach may have references to pollution as a heavy influence, but it could just simply be a composite island they sing about,but hey i dont follow the stories that much i just listen to the music.

  • Noodle

    Stylo is totally awesome!!!!! It's about how much 2-D misses Noodle and how he sort of KNOWS she's still alive. He says "I'll be searching if I know your heart" which means that 2-D will never stop looking for her and that he reckons she won't stop looking for him either. And he talks about an "overload" so he's stressed and feels like he's having an overload. And also, he tries to put it out of his mind at night but is still struggling to get through a week without Noodle by his side. He also implies that the reason he still sings is to stop himself being depressed. Peace out Gorillaz fans! :)
    (ps, im going 2 c them in November :D)

  • Anonymous

    I think that this song is about 2 things: love, and about 2D and Noodle
    It talks about "mako", which is a reference to the mako energy form Final Fantasy VII, which comes from the energy of the "Life Stream", meaning the flow of life energy that encompases the whole world.
    Also, twilight sky have being symbol of the future and what's to come next in life.

    So when 2D sings about "When the mako flies
    Up from the bottom in your eyes
    Then I know the twilight skies
    Not so broken-hearted" I believe he means that "when I see the life coming from your eyes (in real life or in his mind), I believe that there is a better future/hope for the future".

    Then, he sings about
    "Sing yourself out of depression, rise above
    I'll be searching if I know your heart", he means "don't be depressed, sing like when we used to sing together and rise above your struggles and fate will bring us together again, and I will be looking out for when we are together again".

    And then I think the rest is pretty self explanatory, like the love spilling on to the treat Nesbit they have over flowing love for eachother. I don't know but this is what it seems to me to fit in with all the song and the story line of Gorillaz.

  • Anonymous

    mako energy from Final Fantasy VII? Does anyone else pickup this reference.

  • Anonymous

    Really kool song....but we needs the lyrics to Stylo Remin w/ Chiddy Bang if possibly

  • Anonymous

    This song might be about how technology runs our lives, and how in love with it we all are. "Yes, this love is electric. It'll be flowing on the streets night after night, just to get through the week" shows how we need it, and how when we're alone we turn to technology, "When you're heart is light, electric is love" The repetitive "Overload" might be saying how technology has been used to the point of destruction. In the video, Stylo is broken down (even Noodle's broken)and in the end they go off a cliff. Stylo turns into a fish-thing, probably the mako, "When the mako flies, up from the bottom in your eyes, then i know the twilight skies. Not so broken-hearted"

    I still like thje searching for Noodle idea.

  • Anonymous

    i think this song is about robot noodle leaving and 2-d trying to find the real noodle "ill be searching if i know your heart

  • Anonymous

    I still don't understand why they have choosen this one to represent the album, even if the videoclip is great ...

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