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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Massive Attack
Performer
Roots Manuva
Vocals
Robert Del Naja
Keyboards
Euan Dickinson
Programming
Cold Specks
Additional Vocals
Jeff Wootton
Guitar
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Robert Del Naja
Composer
Euan Dickinson
Composer
Herbie Hancock
Composer
Rodney Hylton Smith (Roots Manuva)
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Robert Del Naja
Producer
Euan Dickinson
Recording Engineer
Bruno Ellingham
Mixing Engineer
Tim Young
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Conveying my, my swaying tide
Conveying my, that swaying time
Tapestry, I see tapestry
I see tapestry, golden tapestry
Flashing light years, flashing light years
[Verse 2]
What would it take to get back to the blackness?
Up there, out there
When we gonna be like stars?
Constellations in installations of my fixation of so sensational, oh
What would it take to know?
In the beauty of the night sky
Taking a peep at the history
Messages in the mystery
Further to what the eye may see
Eye to eye with these reasonings
More to gain from believing in
Beyond the Lord, now we leave it in
Watching you wave that dependency
Who, the wheres and they why for
Cause to live or to die for
We all search for some kind of truth
Hurt will make it inclined to be
Type the type for self righteous
Cool and pure with no hype just
Black it before and behind us
Nature might remind us
Fear for fear but where times lives
Secretly with those eyelids
All for one with one iris
Black it before and behind us
Nature might remind us
Fear for fear but where times lives
Secretly with those eyelids
All for one with one iris
[Verse 3]
Flashing light years, flashing light years
Flashing right here, flashing light years
[Verse 4]
Numb to the point these timelines
Knowing that the time lies
Before and ahead of us
Lose your head then head it up
Just now we get perspective
Deep love for the unexpected
That special request is
Made for the soul investments
The bank of all these fortunes
That just can't be exhausted
Those infinite resources
Where you just don't need to force it
The work is where the force is
The transport for sport lives
Amongst and beyond it
The seekers and the finders
Sure as death can find us
[Verse 5]
One inside the tapestry, flashing light years
Flashing light years, flashing right here
Written by: Euan Dickinson, Herbie Hancock, Robert Del Naja, Rodney Hylton Smith (Roots Manuva)