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PORTISHEAD DUMMY

PORTISHEAD

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ortishead are an English band formed in 1991 in Bristol.

They are often considered one of the pioneers of trip hop music.

The band are named after the nearby town of the same name, eight miles west of Bristol, along the coast.

Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on their first records.

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ortishead's first album Dummy was released in 1994.

The credits indicate that at this juncture, Portishead was a duo of Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons.

Adrian Utley, who co-produced the album with them (and who played on nine of the tracks and co-wrote eight), became an official band member shortly after its release.

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Tracklist Portishead Dummy 01. Mysterons 02. Sour Times 03. Strangers 04. It Could Be Sweet 05. Wandering Star 06. Its A Fire 07. Numb 08. Roads 09. Pedestal 10. Biscuit 11. Glory Box

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Track 01 Mysterons Inside your pretending Crimes have been swept aside Somewhere where they can forget Divine upper reaches Still holding on This ocean will not be grasped All for nothing Did Did Did Did

you you you you

really really really really

want want want want

[INSTRUMENTAL] Refuse to surrender Strung out until ripped apart Who dares, dares to condemn All for nothing Did Did Did Did

you you you you

really really really really

want want want want

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Sour Times To pretend no one can find The fallacies of morning rose Forbidden fruit, hidden eyes Courtesies that I despise in me Take a ride, take a shot now 'Cause nobody loves me It's true Not like you do Covered by the blind belief That fantasies of sinful screens Bear the facts, assume the dye End the vows, no need to lie, enjoy Take a ride, take a shot now 'Cause nobody loves me It's true Not like you do

Cause nobody loves me It's true Not like you do After time the bitter taste Of innocence, decent or race Scattered seeds, buried lives Mysteries of our disguise revolve Circumstance will decide ....

'Cause nobody loves me It's true Not like you do 'Cause nobody loves me It's true Not like you Nobody loves.. me It's true Not, like, you.. do

Who am I, what and why?

'Cause all I have left is my memories of yesterday Oh these sour times '

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Strangers 'Ohh........

Can anybody see the light Where the morn meets the dew and the tide rises Did you realise, no one can see inside your view Did you realise, for why this sight belongs to you

Done it warning Done it now This ain't real

Ohh........

Just set aside your fears of life Thru this sole desire

Ohh............

Can anybody see the light Were the morn meets the dew and the tide rises Did you realise, no one can ever see inside you view Did you realise, forewhy this sight belongs to you

Done it warning Done it now This ain't real On in this side

Done it warning Done it now This ain't real On in this side

Done it warning Done it now This ain't real On in this side [INSTRUMENTAL]

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It Could Be Sweet I don't want to hurt you For no reason have I but fear And I ain't guilty of the crimes you accuse me of But I'm guilty of fear I'm sorry to remind You but I'm scared of what we're creating This life ain't fair You don't get something for nothing, turn now Mmmm gotta try a little harder It could be sweet Like a long forgotten dream And we don't need them to cast the fate we have Love don't always shine thru Cos I don't wanna lose What we had last time your leaving this life ain't fair You don't get something for nothing, turn now Mmmm gotta try a little harder

It could be sweet.....

But the thoughts we try to deny Take a toll upon our lives We struggle on in depths of pride Tangled up in single minds Cos I don't wanna lose What we had last time your leaving this life ain't fair You don't get something for nothing, turn back Mmmm gotta try a little harder Cos I don't wanna lose What we had last time your leaving this life ain't fair You don't get something for nothing, turn back Mmmm gotta try a little harder It could be sweet

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Wandering Star Please could you stay awhile to share my grief For its such a lovely day To have to always feel this way And the time that I will suffer less Is when I never have to wake Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved The blackness of darkness forever Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved The blackness of darkness forever ... Those who have seen the needles eye, now tread Like a husk, from which all that was, now has fled And the masks, that the monsters wear To feed, upon their prey

The blackness of darkness forever [INSTRUMENTAL] (always) doubled up inside Take awhile to shed my grief (always) doubled up inside Taunted, cruel.... ...

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved The blackness of darkness forever Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved The blackness of darkness forever

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved The blackness of darkness forever Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved

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Its A Fire Its a fire These dreams they pass me by This salvation I desire Keeps getting me down Cos we need to Recognise mistakes For time and again So let it be known for what we believe in I can see no reason for it to fail....

So let it be known for what we believe in I can see no reason for it to fail...

Cos this life is a farce I can't breathe through this mask Like a fool So breathe on, little sister, breathe on Ohh so breathe on, little sister, like a fool

Cos this life is a farce I can't breathe through this mask Like a fool So breathe on, sister breathe on [INSTRUMENTAL] From this oneself Testify or tell Its fooling us now

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Track 07 Numb Unable so lost I can't find my way Been searching, but I have never seen A turning, a turning from deceit

It just won't leave me alone, ohh no

Cos the child roses like Try to reveal what I could feel

A lady of war

I can't understand myself anymore But I m still feeling lonely Feeling so unholy Cos the child roses like Try to reveal what I could feel But this loneliness It just won't leave me alone I'm fooling somebody A faithless path to roam Deceiving to breath this secretly This silence, a silence I can't bear Cos the child roses like Try to reveal what I could feel And this loneliness It just won't leave me alone And this loneliness, A

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A lady of war

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Track 08 Roads Ohh, can't anybody see We've got a war to fight Never found our way Regardless of what they say How can it feel, this wrong From this moment How can it feel, this wrong Storm.. in the morning light I feel No more can I say Frozen to myself I got nobody on my side And surely that ain't right And surely that ain't right

[INSTRUMENTAL] How can it feel, this wrong From this moment How can it feel, this wrong Ohh, can't anybody see We've got a war to fight Never found our way Regardless of what they say How can it feel, this wrong From this moment How can it feel, this wrong

Ohh, can't anybody see We've got a war to fight Never found our way Regardless of what they say How can it feel, this wrong From this moment How can it feel, this wrong

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Track 09 Pedestal How can I believe this miracle Where the wind blows dry Thru the force of a man Undenied by his eye You abandoned me How I suffer Ridicule breathes a sigh You abandoned me Lost forever Hush, can you hear.....

[INSTRUMENTAL] No time, make or reason No time, make or reason No time, make or reason

Enter and rejoice this pedestal Where the rainbows hide Your destiny Mystery of all time No time make or reason Ridicule breathes a sigh No time make or reason Hush, hear him cry....

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Track 10 Biscuit I'm lost, exposed Stranger things will come your way Its just I'm scared Got hurt along time ago I can't make myself heard no matter how hard I scream Oh sensation Sin, slave of sensation Full fed yet I still hunger Torn inside Haunted I tell myself, yet I still wander Down, inside, its tearing me apart Oh sensation Sin, slave of sensation I'll never fall in love again It's all over now [Instrumental]

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Oh sensation Sin, slave of sensation At last, relief A mothers son has left me sheer The shores I seek Are crimson tastes divine I can't make myself heard, no matter how hard I scream Oh sensation Sin slave of sensation I'll never fall in love again It's all over now

Glory Box I'm so tired of playing Playing with this bow and arrow Gonna give my heart away Leave it to the other girls to play For I've been a temptress too long Just...

Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be a woman I just wanna be a woman From this time, unchained We're all looking at a different picture Through this new frame of mind A thousand flowers could bloom Move over and give us some room Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be a woman I just wanna be a woman

No matter if you cry Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be a woman I just wanna be a woman It's all I wanna be is all woman For this is the beginning of forever and ever It's time to move over It's all I wanna be I'm so tired of playing Playing with this bow and arrow Gonna give my heart away Leave it to the other girls to play For I've been a temptress too long Just give me a reason to love you

So don't you stop being a man Just take a little look from outside when you can Sow a little tenderness 21

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All tracks produced by Portishead with A Utley Engineered by Dave Ma Donald All tracks written by G Barrow/ B Gibbons/ A Utley (Chrysalis Music Ltd.) ExceptA “written by G Barrow / B Gibbons (Chrysalis Music Ltd.) All tracks recorded at State of Art and Coach House Studios,

Portishead is managed by FRUiT.

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