This song made me hate Tricky first time I heard it, but it's probably my favourite track, now! The music fits with the lyrics better than any song I've ever heard. It SOUNDS like being inside someone's mind slowly going more and more insane and struggling to keep control! Lyrically I guess it's say he's struggling to keep control of himself. But the final section is him saying that he may be struggling but everyone else has it so much worse because they're the ones living awful lives, brainwashed with the cheapest, exhausted with the mundane, and he may be drugged up and insane but at least he's living life.
I love the reintroduction of "many switch in switch on switch off" from Black Steel.
This song made me hate Tricky first time I heard it, but it's probably my favourite track, now! The music fits with the lyrics better than any song I've ever heard. It SOUNDS like being inside someone's mind slowly going more and more insane and struggling to keep control! Lyrically I guess it's say he's struggling to keep control of himself. But the final section is him saying that he may be struggling but everyone else has it so much worse because they're the ones living awful lives, brainwashed with the cheapest, exhausted with the mundane, and he may be drugged up and insane but at least he's living life.
I love the reintroduction of "many switch in switch on switch off" from Black Steel.