Blue Lines

Daddy G
trendy windy you know what i mean
hangin around with girl who's rolling up her jeans
she watches her street crack cause she's no dummy
through rockin the microphone and she's calling me honey
says i know what i want don't move with thugs
well house parties hip hop and smoking drugs
and whoever's been the boss she's down with 'em
she's always on time cause the girl got rhythm
to avoid a complication i'll give some information
about a certain occasion under a ???
cause when i host my show-a i avoid the girl called lola
who's more pu-pu-public than the drink they call it coca cola
??? just practice posing face is shaded in black
is dominating as my color the massive attack
right now i hit it kick it flow smooth hit little wicked

Tricky
i take a small step now it's a giant stride
people say I'm loud why should I hide
only had a small taste so what a waste
i quietly observe though it's not my space
bottom ends heavy you know we're never even
people call me Tricky for particular reason
i've got you see and i've got to let you know
see we're rockin' in your area rock beneath your balcony
my baby just cares for me well that's funny
her touch tickles especially on my tummy

Daddy G
now who's got the microphone

Tricky
now who's honey

Daddy G
??? turbo turbo and charge with a charge
i be daddy g wild bunch crew at large
don't call me an officer just call me a sarge
mashing up the country and also abroad
plan to go to america when i get a visa card

Tricky
but gettin a visa card nowadays isn't hard

Daddy G
so keep your ears glued listen to every ???
tokyo city's one place that we toured
four ??? plus two makes a ???
sharper than a wilkerson razor sword

3D
when i was a child i played Subbuteo on
my table then i graduate to studio one
???
and around my neck you know i wear the sony budokan
indigo blues you got me in my own shoes
the people dancing in the shape for what they make
they can't lose
yes waxing lyrical but this time it's not satirical
it's kinda spherical so jam me in a ???
this is the miracle of the dubplate dub selection

Daddy G
so whether you're black white or half-caste in your complection

3D
yes pull out your phono plug and tuck you in your phony
it's started by marconi resumed by sony
a summary of ??? a history and only
the massive attack ???

Horace Andy
get away with your guns now
we don't want it
get away with your guns now
we don't like it
eternal love eternal love
money money money
root of all evil
money money money
root of all evil

Horace Andy
the big wheel keeps on turning
on a simple line day by day
the earth spins on its axis
one man struggle while another relaxes

there's a hole in my soul like a cavity
seems the world is out to gather just by gravity
the wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging
look my son the weather is changing

i'd like to feel that you could be free
look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
sometime again
you'll turn green and the sea turns red
my son i said the power of ???'s over my head

the big wheel keeps on turning
on a simple line day by day
the earth spins on its axis
one man struggle while another relaxes

we sang about the sun and danced about the trees
and we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze
will you cry ??? in a lead-free zone
down within the shadows where the factories drone
on the surface of the wheel they build another town
and so the green come tumbling down
yes close your eyes and hold me tight
and i'll show you sunset sometime again

the big wheel keeps on turning
on a simple line day by day
the earth spins on its axis
one man struggle while another relaxes
as a child solemn pray my hope hides in disguise
while satellites and cameras watch from the skies
an acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
it washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me
and all the king's men cannot put it back again
but the ghetto sun will nurture life
and mend my soul sometime again

the big wheel keeps on turning
on a simple line day by day
the earth spins on its axis
one man struggle while another relaxes
(x2)

Horace Andy
it's you i love and not another
and i know our love will last forever
you i love and not another
and i know we'll always be together
some have 1 love, 2 and 3 love
4 and 5 and 6 love
but i believe in 1 love
i believe in 1 love
some don't feel secure unless they have a woman on each arm
they have to play the field, prove they have charm
they say don't lay your eggs in 1 basket
if the basket should fall all the eggs'll be broken
but i believe in 1 love
i believe in 1 love
oh girl i believe in 1 love
i believe in 1 love
oh girl it's not the everyday you find the woman of your dreams
who will always be there no matter how bad things seem
ever so faithful ever so sure
no man could ever ask for more
i believe in 1 love
i believe in 1 love, oh girl
i believe in 1 love
i believe, girl, oh yeah
in 1 love (x4)
i do (x3)
in 1 love
i do
in 1 love
i believe in 1 love, in 1 love

(marshall, vowles, del naja, cobham, nelson)

Shara nelson

Midnight rockers city slickers
Gunmen and me yeah
On a the feature on the freakshow
And i can't do nothing 'bout that, no no
But if you hurt what's mine
I'll sure as hell retaliate

You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight

You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight

3d

I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin' back at me
To see me lookin' back at you

Shara nelson

Lucky deepest crazy chances seems to be moving fast
What happened to the niceties of my childhood days
Well i can't do nothing 'bout that, no no
But if you hurt what's mine
I'll sure as hell retaliate

3d

I was lookin' back to see if you were
I was lookin i was
I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin' back at me
To see me lookin' back at you

Shara nelson

You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight

You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight

3d

Tell us what it is dangerous
Friends and enemies are contagious
And they spread into your system like a virus
Yes the trouble is it kind of makes you anxious

I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin back at me
To see me lookin back at you

I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin back at me
To see me lookin back at you

Shara nelson

But if you hurt what's mine
I'll sure as hell retaliate
You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight (x2)

Tricky
you can be with the one you love or love the one you're with
spliff in the ashtray-we're strong but far too little
her touch tickles, especially when she's gentle
but i don't hear words cos i saw the instrumental
keep the girl at a distance, moves are very hazy
no sunshine in my life the way i deal is shady

3D
skip hip data to get the anti-matter
blue lines are the reason why the temple had to shatter
to the sound of silence surrounded by the mass
her face is on the paper not the strangers that i pass
the ones that looking back to see if they are looking back at me

Daddy G
are you predator or do you fear me

3D
you wanna do a medicinal
the place i really wanna go
the one i love but never gets near me

Tricky
it's a beautiful day, well it seems as such
beautiful thoughts means i dream too much
even if i told you, you still would not know me
tricky never does, adrian also gets lonely
how we live in this existence, just be
english upbringing, background carribean

3D
sharing a soliliquy
we cut the vocal drop the flexibility
walk a temper 'cause i'm rated comatose
no sunshine in my life cos the way i deal is hazy
life from day to dazey cos i'm on my toes
mickey i'm a 3dsey sign away glazey

Tricky
it's a looking glass she's looking through
she hated me, but then she loved me too
i'd lie not try so i lost faith
they turn to her to keep the faith
she told me take an occupation or you lose your mind
and on a 9 to 5 lemon, looking for the lime

3D
box clever, watch your sister come together
crazy weather at the end of my tether

Daddy G
massive in the area, murderer
attack are in the area, murderer

3D
some go softly softly when i have a tat
ratchet in the right hand
they got the one to stab it at
take a walk billy, don't be a hero
efforts are minimal they're almost at zero
excommunicated from the brotherhood of man
to wander lonely as a puzzled anagram
carve me blue, green ?brumma? and zinc
take it to extremities with purple and pink
i feel the colours fill my room beneath the patter of the rain
i can't stand the drops they're dripping down my windowpane
they wash away my shadow and don't even leave a spark upon my soul
they leave the rainbows in the dark

Tricky
blues get big, massive are even larger
save no space into the tricky tardis
withdraw what i saw from down in darris hall
people laying their claim
in stormy weather it's rain

3D
but you're living on a see-saw

Tricky
i try to see more

3D
somebody died, did he, no body
walking on sunshine, but still we're treading water
the son of many reasons searching for the daughter
seeking knowledge, not acknowledging the jetset
sample babies soft sounds in my budakon headset
the solar system watches in wisdom
the children dance as the moonlight kissed them

Tricky
massive attack not black up here or where i be
two hours traveling so i wrote this on my feet
always living fast, people getting jumpy
where on ?gruggy? falls i do the walter crumpy
microphones held close, crouching far apart
take my piece of mind and sign my name across your heart