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“Oil” is the second track on ‘Cracker Island’ and features Stevie Nicks, who is acclaimed for her work as a solo artist and with Fleetwood Mac. Damon Albarn had originally intended Julian Casablancas of The Strokes as the feature for this song, however, this changed after a conversation with Greg Ku...
[Intro: Stevie Nicks]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
[Verse 1: 2-D]
Then I put my codes
In the machine
But the world I found was made
Of faulty dreams (Of faulty dreams)
[Chorus: 2-D]
I was on my own there
In the psychic silence
I was looking out for
Some other kite to
[Verse 2: 2-D]
Fly out of the doldrums
And recall the log
From the early database
Of your love (Of your love)
[Chorus: 2-D]
Fairy light companions
To the dark maths that catapult
Us into imagined worlds
Seems a mockery remote
[Verse 3: 2-D & Stevie Nicks]
Interlocking cluster bombs
"Like drum and bass," I thought
Close the wells of poison
Fill them up with love
[Bridge: 2-D, 2-D & Stevie Nicks]
I was on my own there (Ooh)
I was all alone (Ooh)
I got lost, intangible
But that's the placе you reach when
[Verse 4: 2-D & Stevie Nicks, 2-D]
You can't help yoursеlf anymore
And the madness comes
You'll be falling into the
Bass and drum (Bass and drum)
[Chorus: 2-D & Stevie Nicks]
Fairy light companions
To the dark maths that catapult
Us into imagined worlds
Seems a mockery remote
[Verse 5: 2-D, 2-D & Stevie Nicks]
'Cause I got no choice in it
And I'm not so cold
I could look you in the eye
And not recall (And not recall)
[Outro: 2-D, Stevie Nicks, Both]
(I was on my own there, and not recall)
Don't think that my heart
Is a sad affair without you
Individual actions
Change the world
(Fill them up with love)
Oil was written by Damon Albarn & Greg Kurstin.
Oil was produced by Greg Kurstin & Gorillaz & Remi Kabaka Jr..
Greg Kurstin:
That contrast of hearing Stevie’s voice over a Gorillaz track is amazing. I think my wife, who’s also my manager, had come up with the idea. We’d have these conversations with Damon: Who could we bring in to this project? Who does he know? Who do I know? I had been working with Stevie...