Safe From Harm Lyrics
Midnight ronkers City slickers Gunmen and maniacs All featured on the freakshow And I can't do nothing 'bout that, no But if you hurt what's mine I'll sure as hell retaliate You can free the world you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight You can free the world you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight
I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin' back at me To see me lookin' back at you
Lucky dippers Crazy chancers Seems to be moving fast What happened to the nicities Of my childhood days Well i can't do nothing 'bout that, no But if you hurt what's mine I'll sure as hell retaliate
I was lookin' back to see if you were I was lookin I was I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin' back at me To see me lookin' back at you
You can free the world you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight You can free the world you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight
Tell us what it is dangerous Friends and enemies are contagious And they spread into your system like a virus Yes the trouble is it kind of makes you anxious I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin back at me To see me lookin back at you I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin back at me To see me lookin back at you
But if you hurt what's mine I'll sure as hell retaliate You can free the world you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight (x2)
This is a very sexy song.
its almost like saying she will be open minded about whats going on in the world ("free my mind") and just let people have their ways ("friends and enemies"), but when it comes to her "baby" she will look into her almost animal instincs to protect it (which is also letting yourself be "free" as in free to your own nature)
i think it is about her wishing to protect her love and also her ability to love in the violent times we have.
"you can free the world, you can free my mind" might be an ironic statement on the 1990/91 political situation with western countries starting to "export" western values like political freedom to the world, sometimes using violence and war; while at the same time on european and us-american streets everyday violence made (and makes) people feel unsafe.
i suppose there's more to it, i don't quite get the context between what she sings and what 3D says.
I think bascially she's singing that she just care about the world around her as there's nothing she can do to change it. All she cares about is that her 'baby' is ok.
Well...I think the song talks about love, love in troubled times.....the world is facing all kinds of different changes and the women is ready to except them, because she, herself...um...can't actually do anything to change the situation, she is to small,....just not strong enough to make the world better, but she has the power to keep the one that she really, really loves safe...she'll do her best to keep him "safe from harm"...That is just my opinion...P.S. This is actually my favorite Massive Attack song, pure art and beauty....it bring those dark, sexy vibes....really beautiful and interesting...
superb voice of shara nelson on a superb song
darken the room, let the song get inside of you...the music is mystical, together with the lyrics (kinda weired, but catchy), sung by this totally fitting voice, cool
Ahhhhhh I just saw Massive Attack live tonight. This song is stuck in my head. It was so beautiful. Shara has the most wonderful voice. I can't properly express how great a time I just had
Sharas voice is so misty and it suits the song so much!
God, I love this song so much! The beat gets stuck in my head all the time, Nelson's voice is so powerful and sexxxxy, and I have a thing for 3D's little rap, which works with Nelson's part so well. Talk to my friends about me spontaneously chanting "I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking back at you."