[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 your girl in the distance, her moves are very hazy

No sunshine in my life, the world did us 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 I'm 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's

The one I love, but never gets near me

It's a beautiful day, well, it seems as such

Beautiful thoughts, words 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 wave, the ability, sharing a soliloquy

We cut the broken thread for flexibility

"Mi chiamo 3D, sì, sono inglese"

Ain't no sunshine in my life, 'cause the way I deal is hazy

I'm living day-to-daisy, 'cause I'm on my toes

While contemporaries of mine remainin' comatose

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

It's a looking glass she's looking through

She hated me, but then she'd love 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'll lose your mind

Be 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 (Murdera...)

Attack inna the area (Murdera...)

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

Efforts on minimal, they'll 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 but 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

Withdraw what I'd saw thrown down in dancehall

People lame and in 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 pavements of the sound within my Boodo Khan headset

The solar system watches in wisdom

The children dance as the moonlight kiss them

To Massive Attack, matte black appear, wearing beads

Two hours traveling, so I wrote this on repeat

Always living fast; people getting jumpy

Wear our googly falls, I just do the wall to comp'ny

Microphones are close, crowds are far apart

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