PROTECTION

Protection
Massive Attack
Virgin
Anno:1994

NO PROTECTION

No Protection
Massive Attack
Virgin
Anno:1996

MEZZANINE

Mezzanine
Massive Attack
Virgin
Anno:1998

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO LIVE WITH ME

Written by Robert Del Naja, Neil Davidge and Terry Callier

It don't matter
Where you turn
Gonna survive
You live and learn
I been thinking 'bout you babe
By the light of dawn
And midnight blue
Day and night
I been missing you
I been thinking about you baby
Almost makes me crazy
Come and live with me
Either way
Win or lose
When you run into trouble
You live the blues
I been thinking about you babe, yeah
See it almost makes me crazy child
Nothing's right
When you ain't here
I'll give all that i have
Just to keep you near
I wrote you a letter
And tried to
Make it clear
You just don't believe that
I'm sincere
I been thinking 'bout you baby
Plans and schemes
Hopes and fears
Dreams I deny
For all these years
I been thinking 'bout you babe
Living with me
Well
I been thinking 'bout you baby
Makes me wanna woo-oo-hoo
Woo-oo-hoo
Yeah
Child
Nothing's right
If you ain't here
I'll give all that I have
Just to
Keep you near
I wrote you a letter, darling
Try to
Make it clear
Oh but you
Just don't believe
That I'm sincere
Thinking 'bout you baby
I want you to live with me

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO FUTURE PROOF

3D :

Borderline cases
Reinforced glass
Absent friends
Passport photos
An elastic past
Empty pocket
They think it is all...
They think it's soul
All wrapped up on a swollen lip
He draws the warm pipe.

Chemicals
Chemicals captured in winter's grip
Turn us on

Separate the leper
Hungry ghosts
Hungry ghosts
Another imprint
In borrowed clothes
We can be numb
We can be numb
Passing through

Blow blow blow blow

Borderline case
Future proof
Real thin air
Real thin air
Real thin air

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO WHAT YOUR SOUL SINGS

Sinead O'Connor :

Don't be afraid
Open your mouth and say
Say what your soul sings to you

Your mind can never change
Unless you ask it to
Lovingly re-arrange
The thoughts that make you blue
The things that bring you down
Only do harm to you
And so make your choice joy
The joy belongs to you

And when you do
You'll find the one you love is you
You'll find you
Love you

Don't be ashamed no
To open your heart and pray
Say what your soul sings to you

So no longer pretend
That you can't feel it near
That tickle on your hand
That tingle in your ear
Oh ask it anything
Because it loves you dear
It's your most precious king
If only you could hear

And when you do
You'll find the one you need is you
You'll find you
Love you

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO INERTIA CREEPS

(Vowles, Del naja, Marshall)

3d

Recollect me darling raise me to your lips
Two undernourished egos four rotating hips
Hold on to me tightly I'm a sliding scale
Can't endure then you can inhale
Clearly
Out of body experience interferes
And dreams of flying I fit nearly
Surrounds me though I get lonely
Slowly

Moving up slowly
Inertia keeps
She's moving up slowly
Slowly
Moving up slowly
Inertia creeps
Moving up slowly
She comes
Moving up slowly
She comes
Moving up slowly
Inertia creeps
Moving up slowly
She comes
Moving up slowly
Moving up slowly

In my home no chrome as clear as
See me now with my nearest dearest
Been there when I'm over careering
Room shifting is endearing
Between us is our kitchen
Would you found my irritant's itching
Been here before
Been here forever

Moving up slowly
Inertia keeps
Moving up slowly
Inertia creeps
Moving up slowly
Inertia keeps
Moving up slowly
She comes
Moving up slowly
Moving up slowly
She comes moving up slowly
Inertia creeps moving up slowly

She comes
There be no sound in my eidertown
Awake I lie in a morning's blue
Room is still my antenna in you
Nylon burns the bedspread with two
Gravity's zero see me stall
I bounce off walls lose my footing and fall
It can be sweet though incomplete though
And the frames will freeze
See me on all four's
It's been a long time

She comes
She comes
I want to x you
She comes
I want to x you
She comes

I caught your radio waves
I caught your radio waves
Will you take a string
Say you string me along
Say you string me along
Say inertia creeps
Inertia creeps and she comes
Say she comes
Say she comes
Say she comes
Say she comes

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO ANGEL

(Vowles, Del naja, Marshall, Hinds)

Horace Andy :

You are my angel
Come from way above
To bring me love

Her eyes
She's on the dark side
Neutralize
Every man in sight

To love you, love you, love you ...

You are my angel
Come from way above

To love you, love you, love you ...

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO TEARDROP

(Del naja, Marshall, Vowles, Fraser)

Liz Fraser

Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Feather's on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Feather's on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Feather's on my breath

Nine night of matter
Black flowers blossom
Feather's on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Feather's on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Feather's on my breath

Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Feather's on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession
Feather's on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Feather's on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Feather's on my breath

You're struggling in the dark
You're struggling in the dark

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO RISINGSON

(Vowles, Del naja, Marshall, Reed, Seeger)

3d

I seen you go down to a cold mirror
It was never clearer in my error
So you lick a shine upon your forehead or
Check it by the signs in the corridor
You light my ways through the club maze
We would struggle through the dub daze

I sink myself in hair upon my lover
It's how you go down to the men's room sink
Sad we talk if how madmen think
I sink myself in hair upon my lover
I don't know her from another miss
I don't know you from another
See me run now you're gone...dream on

Daddy G

Why you want to take me to this party and breathe
I'm dying to leave
Every time we grind you know we sever lines
Where have all those flowers gone
Long time passing
Why you keep it testing, keep on tasking
You keep on asking

3d

Toy-like people make me boy-like
Toy-like people make me boy-like
They're invisible, when the trip it flips
They get physical, way below my lips
And everything you got hoi-poloi like
Now you're lost and you're lethal
And now's about atomic you gotta leave all
These good people...dream on

Nicer than the bird up in the tree top
Cheaper than the chip inside my lap top
All the variations you could do with me
Nicer than the girl up in your mind you're free

Daddy G

Automatic crystal remote control,
We come to move your soul

3d

You kinda fade into the background
Like a better smoke'll bring you back round
Like a man slide inside you my dear
Your cheap beer's filled with crocodile tears
See 'em run now you're gone...dream on

Toy-like people make me boy-like
Toy-like people make me boy-like

I found a reason
I found a reason

Dream on
Dream on
Dream on

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO BETTER THINGS

(vowles, del naja, marshall, thorn, watt, brown)

Tracy Thorn

Don't drag me down
Just because you're down
And just cause you're blue
Don't make me too
Aalthough you've found
Beauty more than me
Don't talk to me
About being free

That's freedom without love
And magic without love
Magic without love

Here we're safe
Better things will surely come our way
Here we're safe
Better things will surely come our way

You say the magic's gone
Well i'm not a magician
You say the spark's gone
Well get an electrician
And save your line about needing to be free
Ah, that's bullshit babe
You just won't let it be

You want freedom without love
And magic without love
Magic without love
Yeah

Here we're safe
Better things will surely come our way
Here we're safe
Better things will surely come our way

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO KARMACOMA

(vowles, del naja, marshall, thaws, norfolk, locke)

Tricky

You sure you want to be with me
I've nothing to give
Won't lie and say this lovin's best
Leave us in emotional peace
Take a walk, taste the rest
No, take a rest

3D

I see you digging a hole in your neighborhood
You're crazy but you're lazy
No need to live in a lean-to
Your troubles must be seen to seen to
Money like it's paper with faces i remember
I drink on a daily basis
Though it seldom cools my temper
It never cools my temper

Tricky

Walking through the suburbs though not exactly lovers
You're a couple, 'specially when your body's doubled
Duplicate, then you wait for the next kuwait

(both)

Karmacoma, jamaica' aroma (x4)

3D

You sure you want to be with me i've nothing to give
Take a walk take a rest taste the rest
Take a walk take a rest taste the rest
Take a walk take a rest a taste of rest

Tricky

Don't want to be on top of your list
Phenomenally and properly kissed
We overcome in sixty seconds
With the strength we have to together
But for now, emotional ties they stay severed
When there's trust there'll be treats
And when we funk we'll hear beats

(both)

Karmacoma, jamaica' aroma (x4)

3D

Deflowering my baby, are you my baby mate
I must be crazy, see i'm swazy
Digging a hole in your neighborhood
You're crazy but you're lazy, must be lazy

Tricky

Don't wanna on top of your list
Monopoly and properly kissed

3D

Deflowering my baby, are you my baby mate
My baby
Deflowering my baby, are you my baby mate
I must be crazy, you must be lazy

(both)

Karmacoma, what?, jamaica aroma

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO SLY

(vowles, del naja, marshall, hooper, suwoton, goldman)

Nicolette

I try to believe what i feel these days
It makes life much easier for me
It's hard to decide what is real these days
When things look so dizzy to me

I already know my children's children's faces
Voices that i've heard before
There's always more
There's always more

Wandering leaving the sea behind
To my home which everybody owns
Wandering, wandering
Where we can do what we please
Wandering

I feel like a thousand years have passed
I'm younger than i used to be
I feel like the world is my home at last
I know everyone that i meet

Somewhere in the music i can hear the bells
I heard a thousand years before
There's always more
There's always more

Wandering is this there all there is
Since i was since I began to be
Wandering, wandering
Where we can do what we please
Wandering

100TH WINDOW

100th Window
Massive Attack
Virgin
Anno:2007

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO PROTECTION

(vowles, del naja, marshall, thorn)

Tracy Thorn

This girl I know needs some shelter
She don't believe anyone can help her
She's doing so much harm, doing so much damage
But you don't want to get involved
You tell her she can manage
And you can't change the way she feels
But you could put your arms around her

I know you want to live yourself
But could you forgive yourself
If you left her just the way
You found her

I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection

I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection

You're a boy and i'm a girl
But you know you can lean on me
And I don't have no fear
I'll take on any man here
Who says that's not the way it should be

I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection

I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection

She's a girl and you're a boy
Sometimes you look so small, look so small
You've got a baby of your own
When your baby's grown, she'll be the one
To catch you when you fall

I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection

I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection

You're a girl and i'm a boy (x4)

Sometimes you look so small, need some shelter
Just runnin' round and round, helter skelter
And I've leaned on me
Now you can lean on me
And that's more than love, that's the way
It should be
Now I can't change the way you think
But I can put my arms around you
That's just part of the deal
That's the way I feel
I put my arms around you

I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection

I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection

You're a boy and i'm a girl

NO PROTECTION

No Protection
Massive Attack
Virgin
Anno:1996

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO UNFINISHED SYMPATHY

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

Shara Nelson

I know that i've been mad in love before
And how it could be with you
Really hurt me baby, really hurt me baby
How can have a day without a night
You're the book that I have opened
And now i've got to know much more

The curiousness of your potential kiss
Has got my mind and body aching
Really hurt me baby, really hurt me baby
How can you have a day without a night
You're the book that I have opened
And now I've got to know much more

Like a soul without a mind
In a body without a heart
I'm missing every part

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO DAYDREAMING

(marshall, vowles, del naja, badarou, thaws)

Shara Nelson

I quietly observe standing in my space
Daydreaming
I quietly observe standing in my space
Daydreaming

3D

Way that we say 'em in style that we raid 'em in
Massive attack we keep it strong just like a vitamin
Going for the positive wiping out the negative songs
'Cause brother it's relative
The ??? is pickup all the lyrics on the dancefloor
To raise your spirit level 'cause it demands more

Tricky

Attitude is cool degrees below zero
Up against the wall behaving like De Niro
Tricky's performing taking his photo
Make him stand with a tan touch it like cocoa
Smooth keep it moving at the back now
Free as the needle that's moving through the track now

3D

Hands keep the drummer's beats we need new sticks
Dance around the vibes like acoustics
No drugs or pharmaceuticals for the body ain't suitable
Stick with liquid me and trick we drop
The paper which you use my toungue to lick with

Tricky

Trouble and strife ain't no sunshine in my life
Wiseguys get protection when they carry a knife
They shouldn't have been born they're making me yawn
But I just take it easy it's a sunday morning

3D

So you come ???
Together we'll grow forever watch my ak rig go

Daddy G

Because my ak rig goes boom boom
My ak rig goes boom

3D

Yeah rhymin' the jam and uh we got the stamina
Cause you never know it's like we don't give a damn and uh
And it's ??? to keep your distance
Resist and the posse gets the pressure of this dance
The cool breeze that you welcome in the heat
You don't see it but you feel it when it's blowing on the street

Tricky

If i was a rich man

Daddy G

Da da dada

Tricky

I quietly observe standing in my space
It's the devious days they call the rat race
It's a concrete jungle, evil in the town
Weebles, wobble, occasional squabble
But we're happy when the bomb drops
Down

3D

Don't make sound
'Cause the dancefloor's a desert
And the dancers are parched
Do a rain dance and you brace through a marsh
My heavy my brother get lighter than helium
Float above the world to break the tedium
Living in my headphones soul is what I say to 'em
The surreal boom of the budokan stadium

Shara Nelson

Well i'm floating on air when i'm daydreaming
I quietly observe standing in my space

Tricky

Well i'm tricky kid don't deal with sadness
Can't be with the one i love i love the one that i miss
I'm very down to earth but brain sits on top floor
Don't need another lover just need, i'm insecure

3D

The weather is a-changin' the storms be shakin
The love that you make is equal to the love you're makin
Here comes the sun little darlin here comes the sun
It's alright

Tricky

Yes tricky kid i check my situation
Naggy this maggy that maggy means inflation
Hip-hop you don't stop cause i'm not sloppy
I like the beat so we need another copy

3D

We're natives of the massive territory and i'm proud
Getting peaceful in the desert that the glory and the crowd
The problem ain't a different kind of skin tricks
I love my neighbor and I ??? the olympics
See you a hooligan you try to play the fool again

Tricky

Caught you in the lost and found

3D

When your posse weren't around

Tricky

No crowd

3D

So you're going for you tool again

Shara Nelson

Daydreaming
I quietly observe standing in my space
Daydreaming
Well i'm floating on air when i'm daydreaming

BLUE LINES

Blue Lines
Massive Attack
Virgin
Anno:1995

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO SAFE FROM HARM

(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

MASSIVE ATTACK. ELEVEN PROMOS

Massive Attack. Eleven Promos
Massive Attack
Emi Music
Anno:2002

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO BULLETPROOF LOVE

I'm not good in a crowd
I got skills I can't speak of
Things I've seen will chase me to the grave
I'm not good in a crowd
I got skills I can't speak of over there
Things that I've seen will chase me to the grave

Plan with your hands tied
Face in the sand flies
Stumble the dunes
Complain to the moon
Backs to the wheel
This granite's too short

Take it, they give it
Or rivet for rivet
I will move for my family
A Bulletproof Love

How does it feel
The weight of the steel
The weight of the steel
The flat of the bay

How does it feel
To kneel at defeat
To kneel at the feet
Of the choices you make

I'm not good in a crowd
I got skills I can't speak of
Things I've seen will chase me to the grave

Backs to the wheel
This granite's too short
Take it, they give it
Rivet for rivet
I build for my family
A Bulletproof love

MEZZANINE

Mezzanine
Massive Attack
Virgin
Anno:1998

COLLECTED

Collected
Massive Attack
Virgin
Anno:2006

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO PSYCHE

I'm looking for you in the woods tonight,

I'm looking

Looking for you in my flashlight, I'm searching

From in the high or down the ocean

And I face myself in reason

Gain the wolf

Gain the wolf

Conjure me as a child

Slipping down a webside

Stretch up I cannot reach him

Jumping up they drag him from the water

I watch them march him into life

I watch them take him from the pale

Into the sky for your eagle eye

The sun seeds a sickle and a scythe

Ridicule they won't allow

Quench abuse and let love flower

Rip the cage out of your chest

Let the chaos rule the rest

Show without showing

What you know without knowing

Twigs snap eye / I catch no canoe only you and me

Alone on the ol' teal sea

Dissolving who we are

Call out for yesterdays destiny come

We're on a foreign shore

It was your mark of falling

I was the car still running

And when you call i'll be your shield for life

And if you feel it you will fly

The sun should have been with me

When I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

As I was set to fall in

PROTECTION

Protection
Massive Attack
Virgin
Anno:1994

TESTI CANZONI MASSIVE ATTACK, TESTO PRAY FOR RAIN

In deepest hollow of our minds
A system failure left behind
And their necks crane
As they turn to pray for rain
And their necks crane

Dull residue of what once was
A shattered cloud of swirling doves
And their eyes change
As they learn to see through flames
And their necks crane
As they turn to pray for rain
And their eyes change
As they learn to see through flames
And their necks crane
As they turn to pray for rain

Drops on rocks fall fast and fleeting
Hearts and wings commence to beating
Woods unseen with all believing
Vision walls fall all receding
Vision walls fall all receding
Drops on rocks come fast and fleeting
Rhythm laws unleash their meaning
Usher us into the dreaming
Vision walls fall all receding
Hearts and wings commence to beating
All unending all completing
Vision walls fall fast and fleeting
Vision walls fall all revealing
Vision walls fall all revealing
Vision walls fall all revealing
Vision walls fall all revealing

In deepest hollow of our minds
A system failure left behind
Dull residue of what once was
A shattered cloud of swirling doves
And their eyes changed
As they learned to see through flames
And their necks craned
As they prayed for rain