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Massive Attack

Sly

Release date: 25th September 1994

From Protection
Track 8
5:25
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‘Sly’ by Massive Attack is a 1994 electronic track from the album ‘Protection’. The lyrics circle uncertainty about what is real, with a weary insistence that “there’s always more”, and images of recurrence and wandering leaving. The tone is inward and slightly vertiginous, as if perception itself is slipping, while the vocal line tries to talk itself into belief.

"Sly" is a single by Massive Attack, from the album Protection, released 25th September 1994. The track is 5:25 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 9 articles about Massive Attack.

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Lyrics

Sly

I try to believe what I feel these days
It makes life much easier for me
It's hard to decide what is real these days
When things look so dizzy to me
I already know my children's children's faces
Voices that I've heard before
There's always more
There's always more
Wandering leaving the sea behind
To my home which everybody owns
Wandering, wandering
Where we can do what we please
Wandering
I feel like a thousand years have passed
I'm younger than I used to be
I feel like the world is my home at last
I know everyone that I meet
Somewhere in the music I can hear the bells
I heard a thousand years before
There's always more
There's always more
Wandering is this there all there is
Since I was since I began to be
Wandering, wandering
Where we can do what we please
Wandering

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Track details

From Protection

5:251994Single
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Protection
Protection
Massive Attack
26th September 1994
Track number
8
Release year
1994
  1. 1Protection
    7:52
  2. 2Karmacoma
    5:16
  3. 3Three
    3:49
  4. 4Weather Storm
    5:00
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