This song quotes the chorus from The Message by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. I didn't catch this the first few times I heard it, because Tricky delivers it so differently to Melle Mel.
"Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge
Trying hard not to lose my head"
(In the original it's "I'm trying not to lose my head.) Anyway, I love the way that this song sounds like it's constantly trying to catch its breath, in line with the repetition of "can't hardly breathe" and the overall metaphor of an asthma attack for a bad relationship.
This song quotes the chorus from The Message by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. I didn't catch this the first few times I heard it, because Tricky delivers it so differently to Melle Mel.
"Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge Trying hard not to lose my head"
(In the original it's "I'm trying not to lose my head.) Anyway, I love the way that this song sounds like it's constantly trying to catch its breath, in line with the repetition of "can't hardly breathe" and the overall metaphor of an asthma attack for a bad relationship.