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Blue Lines Lyrics
You can be with the one you love or love the one you're with
Spliff in the ashtray, red strip I pull the lid
Her touch tickles, especially when she's gentle
But I don't hear words 'cause 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 'cause the way I deal is hazy
Life from day to dazey 'cause 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 nine to five 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
Spliff in the ashtray, red strip I pull the lid
Her touch tickles, especially when she's gentle
But I don't hear words 'cause 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
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
The place I really wanna go
The one I love but never gets near me
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
We cut the vocal drop the flexibility
Walk a temper 'cause i'm rated comatose
No sunshine in my life 'cause the way I deal is hazy
Life from day to dazey 'cause I'm on my toes
Mickey i'm a 3dsey sign away glazey
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 nine to five lemon, looking for the lime
Crazy weather at the end of my tether
Attack are in the area, murderer
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
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
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
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
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A line from nearly every other song on the album reappears in this song.
the first line of the lyric is wrong, instead of:
You can be with the one you love or love the one you're with
It should be:
If you can't be with the one you love, then love the one you're with
Yeah, I love that last line too.
The song (poem, really) kinda goes all over the place, like the guys are all trying to tell a story, but not really paying attention to if it all makes sense.
At it's heart, though, the song is about love, and how difficult it can be for two people to truly understand each other.
You were bright back in 2006. Was there ever a time when you were clueless about music or literature or human feeling? Doubtful.
You were bright back in 2006. Was there ever a time when you were clueless about music or literature or human feeling? Doubtful.
I'm pretty sure this song is describing The Doctor on Doctor Who, which is a long-running BBC show. The Doctor is an alien who travels all space and time, alone in his ship, the TARDIS. Sometimes, he picks up human companions, mostly women, to join him on his journey, but he always keeps them at a certain distance.
The Blue Lines are the Blue Lines on his ship, the TARDIS,which looks like an old-school Police Box.
There are some lines about the band members' upbringings...but mostly the song is about this.
DOCTOR WHO!
Hmmm. Seems a few things have changed on this website since my last visit.
I thought we had the lyrics of this pretty much nailed between us but it seems like the site has just hit a reset button and synced with all the other incorrect lyrics on Google.
Observations. Too many for one post but here are 3
1 Like junocake says, it's can'T be with the one you love, nor love the one you're with.
2 Red stripE not red strip, it's a type of lager.
3 "Mickey i'm a 3dsey sign away glazey" What?
3D - "Lads, I've come up with a great line for that Blue Lines track we're working on"
The others - "go on, let's hear it..."
3D - "OK, here goes....
.....Mickey i'm a 3dsey sign away glazey"
The others - "Oh ho mate. That's the line. Nice work"
Tricky scowls and wishes he'd thought of it.
Even Horace Andy, waiting in the wings to do "Be Thankful" is impressed.
Shara Nelson thinks "I should have that line for one of my tracks'.
Lol sorry. Of course that's not the words. He says....
'Mi chiamo 3D, sono Inglese"
It's Italian for "Quick, get back to the Tardis, before Davros arrives"
No. It simply means, "My name is 3D, I'm from England".
I'll do some more later.
The best part of this song is the final few lines delivered by Tricky and the abrupt end.
Dr. Who guy....That is the best comment i've ever read about any song anywhere.
I disagree but thank you for making me smile.
Everyone....i'm not convinced that these are the right lyrics but neither am i convinced that what i think are the correct lyrics.
While i agree, the abrupt ending is excellent. For me though, it's the abrupt ending immediately followed by the gear-shift into "Be Thankful..."
This remains in my top 10 albums ever.