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“Ticker Tape” is a song about the technological progress of humanity and whether some of this progress is even desirable. The ticker tape represents our contemporary media culture and especially the noise it makes. The question being posed is how often we should reassess the ticker tape. Maybe we ne...
[Verse 1: 2-D]
Is it resolution?
Or black and white flying balloons?
Floating off, too colourful
Or is it separation
You put it to your counting sand
Waiting for the world to start again?
[Chorus: 2-D]
Ticker tape
Ticker tape
Tick-tick-ticker tape
[Verse 2: 2-D]
Is this how you're feeling?
Falling with the world tonight
Cauterized and beautiful
Slide the light
Is this how you're healing?
Out there in the paradigm
Waiting for a cavalcade to come again
[Chorus: 2-D]
Ticker tape
Ticker tape
Tick-tick-ticker tape
Ticker tape
[Bridge: Carly Simon & 2-D]
Black light glints with colour
Sudden long and horizontal outlines the star
A sudden draft and quick chill
A single snowflake falls
And that is all
That is all
The world's face hidden under folding wing
Waiting for the world to start again
Waiting for the world to start again
Waiting for the world to start again
Waiting for the world... again
[Outro: Kali Uchis]
'Cause we're working through it
Working through your nightmare
Watch the worker bees
As they're working for it
Working through the night shift
And I'm working through it
Working through the nightmare
Watch the worker bees
As they're working for it
Working through the night shift
[2D]
Are you leaving for the rest of it?
Coming back to ghosts inside
Or is it just too late for that?
And I'm hoping for a little juice
Ticker Tape was written by Damon Albarn & Cheick Tidianne Seck & Carly Simon.
Ticker Tape was produced by Remi Kabaka Jr. & The Twilite Tone & Gorillaz.
Gorillaz released Ticker Tape on Fri Apr 28 2017.
In an interview with Ryan Leas on April 11, Damon explained:
I was trying to imagine the spirit that might be present in a big city in the United States. One of the deluxe edition tracks, “Ticker Tape”, is about a ticker tape parade where nobody comes out. It’s in moonlight, it’s in black and white...