Blue Lines

[Verse 1: Tricky, 3D, & Daddy G]

Can't be with the one you love? Then love the one you're with

Spliff in the ashtray, red stripe, I pull the lid

Her touch tickles, especially when she's gentle

But I don't hear her words, 'cause I slide the instrumental

Keep the girl in the distance, moves are very hazy

No sunshine in my life; the way I deal is shady

Skip hip data to get the antimatter

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 are looking back to see if they are looking back at me

Are you predator or do you fear me?

Yeah, while I'm doing this, I know

The place I really wanna go

The one I love but never gets near me

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 mostly gets lonely

How we live in this existence, just being

English upbringing, background Caribbean

It's the way that we 'bility, sharing a soliloquy

We cut the broken thread from flexibility

Mi chiamo 3D, sì, sono inglese

No sunshine in my life, 'cause the way I deal is hazy

And everyday's a daisy cause I'm on my toes

While contemporaries of mine remaining comatose

[Verse 2: Tricky, 3D, & Daddy G]

There'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

Then 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

Box clever, watch your system come together

Crazy weather at the end of my tether

Massive in the area, murderer

Attack inna the area, murderer

Some go softly, softly 'round the habitat

Ratchet in the right hand, they got no one to stab it at

Take a walk, Billy, don't be a hero

Effort's on minimal though almost touch zero

Excommunicated from the brotherhood of man

To wander lonely as a puzzled anagram

[Verse 3: Tricky & 3D]

Car paint blue, green, primer, and zinc

Take it to extremities my purple and pink

I feel the colours fill my room beneath the patter of the rain

I can't stand the drops that dribble down my windowpane

They wash away my shadow and don't even leave a mark upon my soul

They leave the rainbows in the dark

The blues get big, Massive are even larger

Save 'nuff space into the Tricky TARDIS

We'd trawl what I saw from down in Darren's hall

People laying their claim, in stormy weather, it's rain

But you're living on a see-saw

I try to see more

Somebody died did he? Nobody

Walking on sunshine, but still we're treading water

The son of many reasons searching for the daughter

Seeking knowledge, not acknowledging the jetset

Silver papers of the sound within my Boodo Khan headset

The solar system watches in wisdom

The children dance as the moonlight kissed them

To Massive Attack, matte black appear, wearing beads

Two hours traveling, so I wrote this on repeat

Always living fast, people getting jumpy

Where on gruggy falls I just do the Walter Crumpy

Microphones held close, crouching far apart

Take my piece of mind and sign my name across your heart