I Against I - Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn

I was a teenage anarchist Looking for revolution I had the style, I had the ambition Read all the authors, I knew the right slogans There was no war but the class war I was ready to set the world on fire I was a teenage anarchist Looking for revolution Do you remember When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire? Do you remember When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire? I was a teenage anarchist But the politics were too convenient In the depths of their humanity All I saw was bloodless ideology With freedom as their doctrine Guess who was the new authority I was a teenage anarchist But the politics were too convenient Do you remember When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire? Do you remember When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire? When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire I was a teenage anarchist But then the scene got too rigid It was a mob mentality They set their rifle sights on me Narrow visions of autonomy You want me to surrender my deity I was a teenage anarchist The revolution was a lie Do you remember When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire? Do you remember When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire? When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire When you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire I was a teenage anarchist I was a teenage anarchist I was a teenage anarchist I was a teenage anarchist

I'm burning the letters you wrote to me in a fire that I will not forget I'm saying goodbye in my own way, and turning this love into a hate There's a sadness I feel with letting go, And wanting something you can never hold Forgive me if I'm giving up, but we both know You can't truly hate something you've never loved I hate the way you bring me down, I hate the things you say to me I hate that way you make me feel today, but you're the drug I need I'm tired of trying to put a smile on your face. You just keep on reaching some things never change There is a sadness i feel with knowing you And a heart ache that comes with the things you do Maybe I'm just a fool All I have is my hate Now you wanna take that too I hate the way you bring me down, I hate the things you say to me I hate that way you make me feel today, but you're the drug I need Dreaming of yesterday where your smile was everywhere Maybe I'm saving the best of me for someone who really cares So I'm writing some words today, to help me find my way Maybe you will never understand why my hate is all I really have today I hate the way you bring me down, I hate the things you say to me I hate that way you make me feel today, but you're the drug I need

Through the best of times, through the worst of times Through Nixon and through Bush Do you remember '36, we went our separate ways You fought for Stalin, I fought for freedom You believe in authority, I believe in myself I'm a molotov cocktail, you're Dom Perignon Baby, what's that confused look in your eyes? What I'm trying to say is that I burn down buildings while you sit on a shelf inside of them You call the cops on the looters and pie throwers They call it class war I call them co-conspirators Cause baby, I'm an anarchist and you're a spineless liberal We marched together for the eight-hour day and held hands in the streets of Seattle But when it came time to throw bricks through that Starbucks window You left me all alone, all alone You watched in awe at the red, white and blue On the Fourth of July While those fireworks were exploding I was burning that fucker and stringing my black flag high Eating the peanuts that the parties have tossed you In the back seat of your father's new Ford You believe in the ballot, you believe in reform You have faith in the elephant and jackass and to you solidarity's a four-letter word We're all hypocrites, but you're a patriot You thought I was only joking when I was screaming kill whitey at the top of my lungs At the cops in their cars and the men in their suits No, I won't take your hand and marry the state Cause baby, I'm an anarchist and you're a spineless liberal We marched together for the eight-hour day and held hands in the streets of Seattle But when it came time to throw bricks through that Starbucks window You left me all alone, all alone

Hey, I hear the voice of a preacher from the back room Calling my name and I follow just to find you I trace the faith to a broken down television and put on the weather And I've trained myself to give up on the past 'cause I frozen time between hearses and caskets Lost control when I panicked at the acid test I wanna get better While my friends were getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines I was losing my mind because the love, the love, the love, the love, the love That I gave wasted on a nice face In a blaze of fear I put a helmet on a helmet Counting seconds through the night and got carried away So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars Hey, I wanna get better! I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better I go up to my room and there's girls on the ceiling Cut out their pictures and I chase that feeling Of an 18 year old who didn't know what loss was And now I'm a stranger And I miss the days of a life still permanent Mourn the years before I got carried away So now I'm staring at the interstate screaming at myself Hey, I wanna get better! I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change I wanna get better, better, better, better Better, 'cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi I'm screaming from my bedroom window Even if it's gonna kill me Woke up this morning early before my family From this dream where she was trying to show me How a life can move from the darkness She said to get better So I put a bullet where I should have put a helmet And I crash my car 'cause I wanna get carried away That's why I'm standing on the overpass screaming at myself Hey, I wanna get better! I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better

Coolin' on the scene like a horse in a stable A brother got ill, and tried to snatch a fat cable I stepped back, like it wasn't no thing I punched him in the jaw with the fat gold ring I had an ace in the hole when it came to that Yo Z, you was packin? You know I was strapped Posse kept rollin' it was hard to get with 'em So I stepped back, and unbuttoned my Lee denim They kept coming, just like I figured So I stepped back, and started sprayin' niggas What a way to go out, out like a sucker But I'm on track, like a Long Island train That can head up your mission, suckers who be dissin' Always on my jock like a snake always hissing Grabbing and tapping me like Luther Vandross Take me to the bar for the drink and make a toast Givin best wishes to the best MC And when the spot is blown and yo you know it's me Because I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) 'Cause I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) Because I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) 'Cause I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) Because I'm housin'! Because I'm Housin' Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb 'Cause I'm Housin Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb 'Cause I'm Housin Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb 'Cause I'm Housin Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb Coolin' at a party, no better yet disco Head feelin' mellow from a bottle of Cisco Move! To crush and fry a Sucker MC like Crisco Gimme the cue, check one two Don't try to come off on me, because you doo-doo You treatin' me the Z to the D, like a stepchild Let me tell you homeboy you're livin' foul MC's, you know who you are On the bandwagon, why Z? Cuz you a star This is the year when the joker's are wild When a fag can't hack it and try to bite your style I get hip to the scheme, before it happens If it gets wild, then I start cappin' But for now, since everything's calm Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb Because I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) 'Cause I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) 'Cause I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) 'Cause I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) Because I'm housin'! C'mon! Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb - 'Cause I'm housin' Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb - 'Cause I'm housin' Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb - Because I'm housin' Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb Because I'm housin'! Relate to the matter, relate to the matter Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb ('Cause I'm housin'!) Relate to the matter, relate to the matter Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb ('Cause I'm housin'!) Relate to the matter, relate to the matter Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb ('Cause I'm housin'!) Relate to the matter, relate to the matter Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb Because I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) 'Cause I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) 'Cause I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...) 'Cause I'm housin'! (Housin'... housin'...)

I'm a little curious of you in crowded scenes And how serene your friends and fiends We flew and strolled as two, illuminated gently Why don't you close your eyes and reinvent me? You knew you got that heart made of stone You shoulda let me know You coulda let me know We'll go 'till morning comes And traffic grows And windows hum Spending all week with your friends Give me evenings and weekends Evenings and weekends I could be yours We can unwind All these half floors All these half floors You'd agree it's a typical high You fly as you watch your name go by And once a name goes by Not thicker than water nor thicker than mud And the eight k thuds it does Sunset so thickly Let's make it quiet and quickly Don't frown Tastes better on the way back down I could be yours We can unwind All these half floors All these half floors All these half floors Will lead to mine We are all curious We can unwind All these half floors All these half floors Will lead to mine Will see to All these half floors All these half floors Will see to All these half floors Will lead to mine We can unwind all half floors