This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast
Delicious and piping hot in only three microwave minutes.

Yo, pretty packages of frosted delights
Look, it comes with a toy hehe, I like that.
I wanna number four, a number six, and throw in a plastic doughnut
Just enjoy the gritty crunch, it tastes just like chicken.
Wrappers of many bit sizes
Man, are you freakin' blind? That's a rock.
All mixed in the pot for momma's homemade from scratch, well, not quite.
Toasted over flames, they be tasting quite right.

All hail King Neptune and his water breathers
No snail thing to quick for his water feeders
Don't waste time with your network, our net worth is set ready, go.
Many know others, but
We be the colors of the mad and the wicked
We be bad, we be brickit with the twenty four hour sign
Shower my habits while you dine like rabbits
With the crunchy, crunchy carrots (that's chicken)
Gotta have it superfast!

(A whole lot of breakfast you got time for!)

Superfast superfast, I come in last, but just in time for breakfast
Keep it through, keep it through, forever blue
Tonight's the night for?
Aluminum I crush your f.u.n aluminum
The sea is radioactive
The sea is radioactive

All hail King Neptune and his water breathers
No snail thing to quick for his water feeders
Don't waste time with your network, our net worth is set, ready, go.
Many know others, but
We be the colors of the mad and the wicked
We be bad, we be brickit with the twenty four hour sign
Shower my habits while you dine like rabbits
With the crunchy, crunchy carrots (that's chicken)
Gotta have it superfast!

Superfast superfast, I come in last, but just in time for breakfast
Keep it through, Keep it through, forever blue
Tonight's the night for?
Aluminum I crush your f.u.n aluminum
The sea is radioactive
The sea is radioactive

Superfast Jellyfish
Superfast Jellyfish
Superfast Jellyfish (Don't waste time!)
Superfast Jellyfish
Superfast Jellyfish



Lyrics submitted by Chopp3r3123

Track duration: 02:55

"Superfast Jellyfish" as written by Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, Gruff,, De La Soul

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    My Interpretation:I can't believe I never saw the ecological aspect of this song before. However, I think the consumerist aspect is painfully obvious.
    It's saying how we are so focused on eating fast, not spending time on stuff that we're willing to eat "rock"s and "plastic doughnut"s. Somewhat similar to the theme in 19-2000.
    Flag caliburon October 09, 2012   Link
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    My Interpretation:Well I guess the thing about lyrics is that what ever the artist meant; we infer our own meanings from the song partially due to the poetic license used. Also we tend to alter the meanings to jive with our own biases. I love this song because it is very melodic and the meaning I gathered is very much a critical social statement. I didn't see the song as being about the future at all but more of a satirical look at where we have placed ourselves in the food chain. More or less how we take from the sea because it's easy but because we want everything quick and easy we are also polluting the oceans and the food we take from them. I saw aluminum as a metaphor for mercury, I guess because they are both metals.

    I saw those washing themselves of their habits as those who are profiting from the some of the questionable practices of the food industry (eg fast food moguls) and those who are profiting from impacting it in a negative way (eg polluters) absolving themselves of their social sins in whatever meaning works for them while the masses eat poisoned and mutated animals.

    "that's chicken" - refers to the consumers being misled and not wanting to believe that what they are eating is not chicken.

    "aluminum, nutrition from, aluminum" - this is not the only site that reports this as "aluminum, I crush for fun aluminum". Weird because I hear "aluminum, nutrition food, aluminum". However it is I think it refers to the fact that we are consuming dangerous refined elements in a variety of ways and they invariably end up in the food chain. Since we even eat stuff that we really shouldn't (in the name of convenience and profit) we end up consuming these things as food when they are really poison.
    Flag Pseudonym9on September 20, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:These lyrics are a litlte cryptic. The pourpose of the lyrics are to expose the fallicies of the food supply system in America. The name of "Superfast Jellyfish" implies the fast food supply system of our society. This albumn, if you pay attention to the lyrics, highlights our glaring problems in America, in general. So... Again... Jellyfish, is about the Amwerican complusion to over eating and our love of convenience / fast food.
    Flag Pigfarmon April 28, 2012   Link
  • +1
    Lyric Correction:In my opinion you guys have some crucial parts of the lyrics wrong, here's what i think it is...


    "yo, pretty packages of frosted delights,
    look! it comes with a tallboy, heh heh i like that"

    tallboy is a 24oz can of beer, speaking of some humans bad habits of overindulgence


    "don't waste time with ya net, our net worth is set, ready go"

    don't waste time trying to fish because there are none, hence eating the jellyfish, (which are breeding in record numbers right now because of climate change)


    "shower-mind habits, while you dyin' like rabbits, with the crunchy crunchy cabbage,
    gota have it, super fast"

    shower mind habits i believe is the same as mind-shower, which is the P.C. way to say brainstorm (that being offensive to epileptics), so they are brainstorming while the rest of us are dying like rabbits (a prey animal) with our cabbage, another word for money, and "gota have it super fast" speaks of our need for instant gratification, not caring about long term consequences.


    "aluminum, nutrition from, aluminum"

    aluminum is not good for you especially in high doses, as we have lots of trash that is made of it

    I think that most of this album is about pollution, climate change and other things humanity has done to screw up the earth, and now its catching up with us. The Plastic Beach is the end result of what will happen when we continue to fill the oceans with our garbage, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch being the leading example, the plastic and trash there does not break down, it gets smaller as it is worn, so eventually all the beaches will be plastic not sand. This is deadly for sea life, jellyfish are the only ocean dwellers that are in a population boom because of climate change.
    Flag oriason March 10, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:i dont think the song has anything to do with the music industry, im pretty sure its just about how processed food is, but i love this song.
    Flag DSB4LYFEon January 27, 2012   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:This song in this universe Gorillaz created, The World of the Plastic Beach, is just an item from this word.

    "This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast
    Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes."
    - This song is only a commercial in this world. From the beginning, you know that this food is fake, due to having to microwave it, unlike hand-made food.

    "Just enjoy the gritty crunch it tastes just like chicken
    Wrappers of many bite size
    Man, are you freakin' blind?
    It's a rock
    All mixed into pot for
    Mama's home made from scratch, well not quite"
    - Explaining how the food is fake, and unhealthy for you, but they're still trying to sell it!

    "Superfast, superfast, I come in last
    But just in time for breakfast
    Keep it through, keep it true
    Forever blue
    Tonight, the night goes out to
    Aluminum, I crush your fun, aluminum
    The sea is (radioactive?)
    The sea is (radioactive?)"
    - It's the jingle for the commercial.

    While i was listening, i heard a voice in the background say
    "The sea...has gone silent"
    I'm assuming the ocean is dead, therefore there can't possibly any jellyfish. This leads me back to calling the food fake. Everything Is fake, but they sell it to you through fancy jingles.
    Flag monkeyninja69on June 11, 2011   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:Dudes, i think part of the chorus is different than that listed here

    sounds like:

    Keep it sweet, keep it sweet, forever blue (there's backing vox that make the sweet sound like "swu")
    The night, the night froze/force/for'those/for's actors
    Luminum/lumin'em (as in light) a crucial fun/fund, aluminum
    To see is/us radioactive OR to see his radio acting

    this fits the bill for music industry commentary. dig??
    Flag jthill4on May 02, 2011   Link
  • -1
    Song Meaning:This song is a commercial for the new "Superfast Jellyfish" which is set in the near future. Damon Albarn was trying to tell the world that, at the rate we're going with resources, we're all going to have to start eating jellyfish.
    "Don't waste time with your net" is a shot at fast-food companies. For example, we can barbecue our own burgers, but we can also go to Wendy's and get a burger in 2 minutes for a little more money. Albarn's quoted as saying "(jellyfish) will have to taste good, otherwise we're in trouble."
    Flag joshcall73on March 09, 2011   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:you know, when i hear this song i feel like he's talking about getting high. Because at the chorus he says he comes in last, but just in time for breakfast maybe he's talking about having a hangover and then he gets up and wakes and bakes or something.

    Also in the beginning when they're talking about getting food (I'm assuming at a fast food restaurant) I feel like that was meant to be taken as them having the munchies or something ya know?
    Flag imthemanwithdogson February 06, 2011   Link
  • -1
    My Interpretation:I think its about advertising forcing us to enjoy things we don't
    Flag superchris9on January 24, 2011   Link

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