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Track cover The God of Lying

The God of Lying

3:09noise rock, punk, post-punk 2025-11-06

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Description

Visualizer: Jamie Hewlett and Swear Studio

Released on Kong

Administration of Gorillaz: Eleven Mgmt

By: Damon Albarn and Joseph Talbot

Producers: Gorillaz, James Ford, Samuel Egglenton and Remy Kabaka Jr.

Vocals: Gorillaz and IDLES

Bansuri: Ajay Prasanna

Percussion: Viraj Acharya

Sound recording: Samuel Egglenton

Assistant Sound Design: Adhitya Sivakumar and Giacomo Vianello

Recording: Studio 13 London, Studio 13 Devon and Island City Studios Mumbai

Mixed by: Marta Salogni at Studio Zona

Mastering: Heba Kadri, New York

Mastering Assistant: Jacob Clements

Publisher: Sony Music Publishing / Thirteen Limited, Kobalt Music Publishing

IDLES recording courtesy of Partisan Records

Lyrics and translation

Original

Who am I?

Are you happy with your housing?

Are you climbing up the walls?

Are you deafened by the headlines

Or does your head not hear at all?

Are you pacified by passion?

Are you armed to the teeth?

Are you bubbling at the surface

Of what's cooking underneath?

Are you dying for an answer

For what they call good grief?

But there's a terrific chance there's nothing

Beyond what you believe

Oh, don't you say

That you think I'm in glory

Oh, don't you say

That you think I'm gonna get no glory

Running to the exit with a huge grin on my face

Screaming, "Hope is behind, and I wanna get high"

I went to the liquor store

And they took all my money

I stared into the mirror there

And begged a man to love me

Do you love your blessed father? Anoint by fear of death

Do you feel the lies creep on by as soft as baby's breath?

Do you beg that truth will set you free? Are you shackled by the keys?

Well if I was you, I'd stay strapped in 'cause all you've got is me

Oh, don't you say

That you think I'm in glory

Oh, don't you say

That you think I'm gonna get no glory

Running to the exit with a huge grin on my face

Screaming, "Hope is behind, and I wanna get high"

English translation

Who am I?

Are you happy with your housing?

Are you climbing up the walls?

Are you deafened by the headlines

Or does your head not hear at all?

Are you pacified by passion?

Are you armed to the teeth?

Are you bubbling at the surface

Of what's cooking underneath?

Are you dying for an answer

For what they call good grief?

But there's a terrific chance there's nothing

Beyond what you believe

Oh, don't you say

That you think I'm in glory

Oh, don't you say

That you think I'm gonna get no glory

Running to the exit with a huge grin on my face

Screaming, "Hope is behind, and I wanna get high"

I went to the liquor store

And they took all my money

I stared into the mirror there

And begged a man to love me

Do you love your blessed father? Anoint by fear of death

Do you feel the lies creep on by as soft as baby's breath?

Do you beg that truth will set you free? Are you shackled by the keys?

Well if I was you, I'd stay strapped in 'cause all you've got is me

Oh, don't you say

That you think I'm in glory

Oh, don't you say

That you think I'm gonna get no glory

Running to the exit with a huge grin on my face

Screaming, "Hope is behind, and I wanna get high"

Watch video Gorillaz, IDLES - The God of Lying

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