Time Keeps on Slipping Lyrics

[Intro: Del The Funky Homosapien as Deltron Zero]
Yeah, that's the funky-funky shit
Aye, bust it, yo, yo

[Verse 1: Del The Funky Homosapien as Deltron Zero]
Deltron; tremendous force to end your course
Every whim is enforced
I send men with torches to raid your fortress
And in the process radiate your optics
Subconsciously haunt emcees
Super human technician atomic inner dimension
Too mental with intuition
Typographical aptitude let my lasers clap at you
Mapped the route, psychologically crappin out, what you laughing
'bout?
Imitations, getting penetrated in 3D simulation
In my emcee training class remain in mass
Never get liquidated convert energy
Into matter instantly with a pen and pad

Calculate the centigrade, heat the center of gravity
Abolish apathy graphically packing 380's
With body heat sensitive bullets you need safety
Vest on your face and neck
Mental armory levitate legs for my monarchy
No malarkey my flows embarking
Psionically sparking brain cells 'til they're sparkling
[Chorus: Damon Albarn as Sir Damien Thorn VII]
No one knows the time, pass me by
No one knows the time, pass me by

[Verse 2: Del The Funky Homosapien as Deltron Zero]
I remake my universe every time I use a verse
To fulfill my destiny, emcees rest in peace
Side barriers provide care within
From impurities every word will seize your attention like third degree
I subjugate you other fake performers while the bass of your face
No sentient being attempts fleein'
Emcees siphon my likeness
Biting my insights like five enchiladas

This plane of existence is amazingly different
From my orbital
oratory always going for the glory
You pop wide open from my sly slogans
I stay in effect with alien tech
Make you wanna say he's the best
With synchronization with commendation
It's armor plated hard to fake it
Never carbonated, scar your matrix
Virtually uncertainty, murk your mediocre sheets and sofa
With my style of energy, Del assembling
A realm where anything, is possible
NASA scientists can't define this
Mechanical mind set diamond alignment
[Chorus: Damon Albarn as Sir Damien Thorn VII]
No one knows the time, pass me by
No one knows the time, pass me by


[Verse 3: Del The Funky Homosapien as Deltron Zero]
Mathematical astro-grapple a flow, pterodactyl
Very factual crash course, last resort, cast me off
At last we warp
To my own world, my own neurological cubbyhole
Open the air shaft I'll be there fast
With spare raps to tear back their mass
Deltron experimental critical literal
Professor test the pitiful
Micronautalyst interchangeable
All of this gamma grammar far from Bamma'
Got mind control bandannas
To control your clan with scanners

Brand the planet like a band of bandits
Who man the cannons and guns with random
Subatomic, love of logic, bug with phonics
Tub of chronic low in bridle with controlling ciphers
Unraveling rhyme, in traveling time
Alien life form mail in a pipe bomb
Deltoid life long I write songs
Monarch absolute, serve a glass of proof
When I vanish leave my spirit in a planet
On top of the surface my words and wit emerging
[Chorus: Damon Albarn as Sir Damien Thorn VII]
No one knows the time, pass me by
No one knows the time, pass me by

[Outro: Damon Albarn as Sir Damien Thorn VII]
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“Time Keeps On Slipping” can best be considered a proto-Gorillaz collaboration, as Blur vocalist Damon Albarn delivers a guest chorus verse and plays melodica throughout the track. The track also has a similar sound to the band’s first two biggest hits – namely “Tomorrow Comes Today” and “Clint Eastwood”, the latter of which Del the Funky Homosapien would feature on.

Dan The Automator would later handle production duties on the first Gorillaz album, giving the original sound of Gorillaz a blend of trip-hop, dub and indie sound which progressed to further sound experimentation on later albums.

The tracks main sample is an instrumental Baroque version of the popular Burt Bacharach sample “Walk On By” by The 18th Century Corporation.

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Recorded At
The Glue Factory (San Francisco)
Release Date
October 17, 2000
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