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Starshine never gonna find me
Starshine, they ain't gonna find me
Starshine never gonna find me
Starshine, never gonna find me
Stand easy with myself, with myself
Jumping up, I'm low, low, low, low
Show me down
Starshine never gonna find me
Starshine, they ain't gonna find me
Starshine never gonna find me
Starshine, never gonna find me
Starshine, they ain't gonna find me
Starshine never gonna find me
Starshine, never gonna find me
Stand easy with myself, with myself
Jumping up, I'm low, low, low, low
Show me down
Starshine never gonna find me
Starshine, they ain't gonna find me
Starshine never gonna find me
Starshine, never gonna find me
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To me, it's about his loss of hope from going back home ever since he was kidnapped & forced into the Gorillaz.
This could also very well be about magic dust in gladd bags though....cause if youre any kind of artist you know that the most successful approach to every song is complexly hidden metaphor for drug use and that doesnt bother your intellectual integrity one bit, nope!
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stars beigng artists, alone but adfmired by many. thats what he wants fame, hoping itll find him. and his jumping up is like trying harder to get found, but hes trying so hard that its too much and that way he only gets lower and further away from his goal, so being shown down maybe would be a better way to get starshine
I've been reading through these comments and finally found someone who shares the same views.
Through a normal perspective, it's about realization. A confused cry for help.
Unless you know the difference between uppers AND downers, you'll never understand the low, low, low... which is why the whole drug scenario hits me. Starshine... the high felt on the first hit?
Starshine, never gonna find me
He's searching for the same feeling he felt when he first used, but finally realizes how fruitless it really is.
In terms of depression, it could refer to life feeling like an empty, black sky with nothing really worthwhile in it. The stars are like the friends and family who help you through it all, and just anything that helps keep you going. But there aren't even any stars out in this person's world. It's just pitch black, without even starshine to light his way - he can't find his way out, and no one can find or help him. He just feels way too deep into it to think he there's a hope of making it out.
With the 'jumping up' line, that could also be a failed attempt to get out of this depression, but only ends up showing him how low, alone and insignificant he is.
I'm not sure about the line "stand easy with my self, with myself" though. Maybe something about how it's easier to be by himself than actually being with someone else? Or him not admitting he needs help, trying and failing to help himself. I really don't know, just pulling that out of the air, lol.
I think the simple, rambling nature of the song also shows how numb, overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted this person is, it's like they can barely even function anymore. Like when you're so overwhelmed with an emotion you're practically speechless.
I feel like a bit of a wanker writing all this about a song that's like 7 lines long, but oh well, lol.
It's a bloody good song. Haunting.
Starshine, when you gonna find me?
Starshine, never gonna find me.
Starshine, never gonna find me.
Stand easy with myself, with myself.
Jumping up, I'm low, low, low, low.
Show me down.
Starshine, never gonna find me.
Starshine, when you gonna find me?
Starshine, never gonna find me.
Starshine, never gonna find me.
That's the lyrics as I hear them, but the song I got is from the `Gorillaz` album, not whichever one it said these were from. Anyway, it does look like "Starshine" is a metaphor for happiness. "Jumping up" is him trying to be happy when he's depressed, but it just doesn't work.