Only You Lyrics

Lyric discussion by belle1313 

Cover art for Only You lyrics by Portishead

I think this song is so powerful... The way it's sung seems to show that she really needs help and it's only him who can ease her pain.

I beleive she is warning/illuminating/identifying with - the fact that the reins of direction in the world have been passed to those behind a veil of secrecy in which the goals are to confuse and keep blind the masses. Keeping everyone in a submissive state ignorant of any truth of who we really are and what their true agenda is. We have failed to recognized this illusion. "Its only you", could refer to a spiritual/deep/aware state of conciousness which she experiances. To be told apart from the ignorant masses and be recognized through an indepentant state of being....