By all means this should sound off, but yet it works. Both guitars are playing two completely different riffs with different timing. The song begins with a guitar playing a repetitive riff (in 5/4 timing, hence the title) in the left channel, then soon after a louder guitar occupies the right channel. This version ends with the all the samples suddenly stopping, leaving Cass Browne to finish the song off while 2D (played by Nelson De Freitas) grunts and moans over it. In the Gorillaz mockumentary "Charts Of Darkness", "New Genious" plays over the end credits. The album version of the track fades out while Damon scats over Miho's vocals and the song's looped groove, however the song does have a formal ending. The song is a haunting track that wouldn't seem out of place on "Mezzanine", Massive Attack's darkest record, so I wouldn't be surprised if the beat Dan The Automator, Kid Koala, Cass Browne and Junior Dan made just gave Damon the idea to write a really dark lyric. The hook (shown in the title picture) talks about not trusting strangers, so perhaps this song is from the perspective of a psychologically tormented man who realizes his negative affect on society. Had a gun, had to be done, blew a man away"). He talks about living in his own world, people passing right through him and even killing a man ("In a pressure today, I blew a bad man away today. Despite Damon's present force as a vocalist with his wispy falsetto, it is hard to tell what he is actually saying.