Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Adrian Utley
Guitar
Geoff Barrow
Programming
Beth Gibbons
Vocals
Clive Deamer
Drums
Gary Baldwin
Hammond Organ
War
Sampled Artist
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Geoff Barrow
Songwriter
Beth Gibbons
Songwriter
Adrian Utley
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Portishead
Producer
Adrian Utley
Producer
Beth Gibbons
Producer
Dave McDonald
Engineer
Geoff Barrow
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Please, could you stay awhile to share my grief?
For it's 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
[Chorus]
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness forever
[Verse 2]
Those who have seen the needle's 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
[Chorus]
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness forever
[Verse 3]
Doubled up inside, take a while to share my grief
Always doubled up inside, taunted, cruel
[Chorus]
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness, the darkness forever
Written by: Beth Gibbons, Charles William Miller, Geoff Barrow, Gerald Goldstein, Harold Brown, Howard E. Scott, Jerry Goldstein, LeRoy L Jordan, Lee Oskar, Lonnie Le Roy Jordan, Morris Dickerson, Thomas Sylvester Allen