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Massive Attack is a trip-hop band which formed in Bristol, England in 1988. The group currently consists of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Third member Andy "Mushroom" Vowles left the group in 1999. The band has released five studio albums: "Blue Lines" (1991), "Protection" (1994), "Mezzanine" (1998), "100th Window" (2003), and "Heligoland" (2010). On 28 January 2016, Massive Attack released a new EP, Ritual Spirit, followed by The Spoils in July. Read Full BioMassive Attack is a trip-hop band which formed in Bristol, England in 1988. The group currently consists of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Third member Andy "Mushroom" Vowles left the group in 1999. The band has released five studio albums: "Blue Lines" (1991), "Protection" (1994), "Mezzanine" (1998), "100th Window" (2003), and "Heligoland" (2010). On 28 January 2016, Massive Attack released a new EP, Ritual Spirit, followed by The Spoils in July.

The group are considered to be progenitors of the trip hop genre. Their debut album, Blue Lines was released in 1991, with the single "Unfinished Sympathy" reaching the charts and later being voted the 10th greatest song of all time in a poll by The Guardian. 1998's Mezzanine, containing "Teardrop", and 2003's 100th Window charted in the UK at number 1. Both Blue Lines and Mezzanine feature in Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The group has won numerous music awards throughout their career, including a Brit Award—winning Best British Dance Act, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and two Q Awards They have released 5 studio albums that have sold over 11 million copies worldwide.

In the nineties, the trio became known for often not being able to easily get along with one another and working increasingly separately. Andy Vowles (Mushroom), who had once thought of himself as the trio's musical director, acrimoniously left Massive Attack in late 1999, after an ultimatum from the other two members to end the group immediately if he did not. Despite having taken Del Naja's side in the effective firing of Vowles and then participating in a show-of-unity webcast as a duo the following year, Grant Marshall (G) had also effectively left by 2001 in that he abandoned the studio altogether. Marshall returned to a studio role in 2005, having joined the touring line-up in 2003/4. The two later worked together again in the 2008 Damon Albarn sessions for the fifth proper studio album.

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The Spoils
Massive Attack Lyrics

I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight

Nobody here that keeps you in the shade and ever owned you
Some sentimental tears or someone else's girl that drips away

But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away

I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight

And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away, away

And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you

But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away

Lyrics © KOBALT MUSIC PUBLISHING LIMITED,
Written by: STEWART NEVILLE JACKSON, DAN JONES, GRANTLEY MARSHALL, HOPE SANDOVAL

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Sarah Rachelea

1y↑254

THE SPOILS LYRICS

I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight
Nobody here that keeps you in the shade and ever owned you
Some sentimental tears or someone else's girl that drips away
But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away
I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight
And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away, away
And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you
But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away

mamaziha

3w↑1

"The Spoils"
(feat. Hope Sandoval)

I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight

Nobody here that keeps you in the shade and ever owned you
Some sentimental tears or someone else's girl that drips away

But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away

I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight

And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away, away

And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you

But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away...

naniznaniz

1y↑75

NöE

2y↑28

#LYRICS

The Spoils

Massive Attack

I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight

Nobody here that keeps you in the shade and ever owned you
Some sentimental tears or someone else's girl that drips away

But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away

I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight

And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away, away

And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you

But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away

ddubrul

4y↑316

I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight
Nobody here that keeps you in the shade and ever owned you
Some sentimental tears or someone else's girl that drips away
But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away
I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight
And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away, away
And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you
But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away

All comments from YouTube:

rajat sharma

4y↑4.1K

the timeless agony of being in love with an image or an idea of a person that exists in your head. Even though the person is a different being than that of the idea of the person's existence you lock and save in your head, only you love 'that idea' in silence and the person remains unaware

Haze America

Fuck you really just put it into wordss

Endre Schlotter

I wish I could go back and try to love her instead of just watching and dreaming about her...

Pabs

It's the pain that makes us realise we're alive.

Butterfly Londrès Le Bon

10w

so true ...

Nekomajin

11w

wow, that's so nicely said ! Can't explain this feeling better !

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RobFrank22

2y↑1.9K

Hope Sandoval needs to do a whole album with Massive Attack.

wulandari siti aisah

@Omg Finally omg yes

K-leb

11w

@Jenna Almond The video upload date gives you a pretty good idea of how recent this is...

K-leb

11w

@Peter Stessels Massive Attack seriously need to start releasing a bunch of unreleased, buried tracks. I think they're a bit too perfectionist and heavy on curation for their own good. I can't believe the original versions of Four Walls and Red Light still haven't been released.

thanx01

14w

no sir ... she needs to do 5000 albums with massive attack. it may take a while but rest assured i will listen to each of them 1000s of times ... yes it will all take centuries.

Jeff N.

14w

@RobFrank22 Don't forget Opal, from before Mazzy Star..."Happy Nightmare Baby" is an amazing track!

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Llyy

8w↑116

I once fell so deeply in love with someone, and when our relationship ended, I felt this song with all the pain in my soul. Years have passed, and now that I keep listening to this song, I feel like I understand it better every day. I will always love that part of the person that I once fell in love with even though it no longer exists, people change and it's okay. Every day I don't know you more but still I thank life that one day we were the most passionate and connected lovers in our youth.

sabina

@Bernie Asis me too

nina alfa

2w↑2

I lived a very similar experience. Nothing hurts like losing someone you are connected deeply to and no matter how much time passes that connection stays intact and will not weather with time. Beautiful and sad at the same time

Wonderwoman

4w↑1

Same

Llyy

@Professor Chaos hey, thank you so much for those warm words 🥰

Professor Chaos

6w↑1

You are one hell of a good person. I'm glad that we share the same planet. Because of people like you, love still have a chance, sort of. Just keep rocking! ;)

8 More Replies...

ТРУБЕЦКАЯ

39w↑105

this is the Best song If you wanna slowly and painfully suffer while recalling old memories

Xen Uno

Ya it's pretty .. I would rank Seasons of your Day (the song), Into Dust, and Down the Steps as Hope's best but oh my .. she has so many great collaborations, Mazzy works, and solo works.

Veo Veo

Probably

Robert Waller

For real, play it on loop

Андрей Андреев

Memory is all we have

K D

Kinda her thing!

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Sarah Rachelea

1y↑254

wulandari siti aisah

5w↑1

@Eka Winata wah music taste nya bagus, suka massive attck juga?

funkysexy69

6w↑1

🖤🙏🏾

Andrea Zehtabchi

40w↑4

Thank you

Eka Winata

47w↑2

Mantap bu

Kbaweshum Videos

2y↑613

Massive Attack is kinda like an Art Gallery for the Ears

P.s. I realize music is auditory art.

Lógica Astrologica

@Barely Taupe : ) i like it too. that why its mine. the coquies helped

Lógica Astrologica

@Barely Taupe I am Melissa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS088Opj9o0

Lógica Astrologica

@Barely Taupe Another Lua I greet. The moon is the artist keeper.

Lógica Astrologica

@Barely Taupe hell yes, our names aren't random, nothing is really... one can break the flow, yes... but nothing is random to me.

Lógica Astrologica

It is mesmerizing, indeed. female energy always is. She is pure feminine archetype. The sensual seductress and the soothing nurturance. Venus-Moon Exquisite Balance
Libra... Sensitivity-Cancer.

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Luca Feletti

2y↑533

I listened to this song when I held my son close to me before he died, it is the sweetest memory I have but also the most moving. The most beautiful song ever.

DRAGON LOVR

Im sorry Luca can’t imagine the pain.
But this is probably the most beautiful comment I have seen, dedicating a song to a moment like that and remembering the song playing, especially a song like this.
I hope you’re at least better.

Chantelle Rogers

12w↑1

that made me cry. stay strong

Mis Tery

12w

❤️❤️

Carol Poitras

13w

My heart hurts for you, I'm sorry for your loss.

Sara S.

13w

I wish you could’ve kept him the way that he was.

38 More Replies...

Alex Wolf

2y↑783

This song is about the erosion of the detailed memory of a person, yet simultaneously how permanent the impression is that their essence leaves in your life.

Valerie Daily

44w

Yes, exactly, my soulmate and best friend passed away 4 months ago and we used to listen to this song together but now I really know the meaning...

Jerome Greene

47w

@Andreas Schwarzenberger 😏

ANTISCYLLIS NEOCHT

50w

@Grace Chan simply put; yes.

ANTISCYLLIS NEOCHT

50w

ha! this sounds like it might be. i won't ask how you came to this.. gonna reevaluate it myself with this post in mind.

thanks, wolf.

Nikki Wallis

11 More Replies...

Madison Johnson

1y↑163

This is the most excruciatingly heartbreaking song I've ever heard..

Matt Perry

Well, have you heard other songs from Hope Sandoval...

Frec777

23w↑1

EXACTLY

Krisztina Nagy

41w↑1

Agreed

OWEGA

4y↑1.5K

The song is called "The Spoils", which comes from the phrase "To the victor go the spoils". The speaker in the song is in love with a person who is in involved with another woman. This other woman is the victor; to her go the spoils. The person they both love is "the spoils".

Out of pure love and a desire for her love's happiness, she lets him/her go. The speaker is dealing with the pain of that loss and the infinite emotional distance there must be between herself and the person she loves; and across that distance, over time, the painful image of the person she loves ossifies, fades; but she's still holding on to him/her. That hopeless love -- it never leaves her.

Josie Camilo

17w

So true I can see that too. So sad if only that person who you love so deeply could feel that exact pain you experience for them just for a day or a dream even. I heard someone say what you believe to be the worst thing that can happen to you can be a blessing in disguise. That phrase is what I'm going to focus on. Life and love are meant to be joyful and whoever brings the sadness doesn't belong in it.

flahammerhead

20w

Owega’s interpretation is exactly correct and the only interpretation that makes logical sense...

gina davis

20w

@OWEGA to the Victor go the spoils è una frase comune,ma guarda bene il video,che cosa ti fa pensare??? Al bottino oppure al recupero delle povere spoglie di qualcuno,lo dice anche nel testo: tu (non tu,inteso a te,intenso all' uomo al quale lei si sta riferendo, che potrebbe per esempio,chiamarsi Victor,per rimanere sul gioco di parole,oppure avere un cognome tipo Sandoval o qualcosa di simile),oppure la ragazza di un altro.
Da qui,poi Lovely Bones e qui si parla della ragazza,non so se tu abbia mai visto il film.

Don Juan Trumpeta Johnson

24w

To the victor go the spoils? No way. That's to easy. That's what normal people think of first. This is about something else. I bet all of the interpretations on here are off.

Patrick van Gelder

26w

I like how Bjork puts it: "If i regret us, i deny my soul to grow" - NotGet / Vulnicura
Sometimes you have to loose to gain.

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Ariel Ambrose

2y↑868

My ex was cheating on me and continued to manipulate me and deny it. It was the most painful stripping away of all the light I saw in him and all the virtues I thought he lived by decayed before my very eyes. I'd say it felt like this song. Slow and soul-shattering death of the sacred bond we shared..but still loving that person in the strangest way and just wishing that they had the strength to do the right thing and be honest at the very least...you'd think they would love you even enough to tell you the truth and let you go in as much peace as you can...I've somehow realized how strong I really am. I have an unbreakable heart, every time it's burnt I rise more loving...more understanding of humanity towards myself and others. I raised myself to be that way...amidst chaos and pain it's always a choice of love. In a weird way, it was a gift..that darkness he brought me. I learned my true colors.

sabina

your words are insanely beautiful and true

moonwhale

Your comment make me cry, i read it and feel it all. Send you my love to you

Ivet Patiño

13w

Wow I was touched by your story. I hope today you have someone to love you the way you deserve. You have a genuine beautiful soul.

NosorogGoroson

13w

@Toastymarket I hate my ex for lying to me even after I had all the proofs.

shnops

15w

You are like a poet ! 'Full of insights and understanding ! Your words touched me with sadness . I felt your pain . You are right . To varying degrees we all go through betrayals , rejection and deceptions . We are all imperfect , but redeemable !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ' Continued happiness and its pursuit !!!!!!!!!!!!

57 More Replies...

Mitch Kuchenberg

11w↑82

"You want to know the horrible truth? I can't even remember what she looked like. I only know she was the one thing I ever wanted. Someone took her away from me, and seven kingdoms couldn't fill the hole she left behind."
- Robert Baratheon

jean jeanie72

1y↑137

You know a song's profound when, at the end of the vid, you don't just automatically click on another song, but sit taking in what you've just experienced🙏💞Just sublime.

Alex Castillo

49w↑3

Yeah that feeling

Cheeky Cupcake

52w↑3

jean jeanie72 And think about the love you wish you had with that person❤️✌🏼

jaim haas

2y↑269

This is a song for those who feel deeply.

Jason Foster

38w

Touching connecting pleasuring

jaim haas

47w

@alireza shsevari shsevari yes I see you agree.

alireza shsevari shsevari

47w↑1

👀👨‍👦😏

Scott Powell

33w↑60

The song and the video are so haunting. There's something about it that really terrifies me at some primal level.

Liadan Ryan-Gerhardt

10w↑1

I think it's the abject brutal loneliness we all at some point feel. Or maybe that's just my projection.. but I find it terrifying to think about, and this song especially the video reminds me of this. Idefk though, just my random 4AM thoughts bro, lol

Eric Jourdain

11w↑1

It is terrifying.
You are not alone.

Hijo de la luna

2y↑81

Hope Sandoval has a 'rainy' voice.

The sign painter

41w↑6

I know exactly what you mean.

Bee Dubb

2y↑333

Warning: Hope Sandoval's vocals and that string arrangement is probably going to hit you in the feels. Just so you know.

Martin Bass

42w↑1

This is what I want playing as I look up in the sky and see the atmosphere being seared away by the impact that puts our species out of its misery.

Arcas Bear

Just saying...

Marie-Elyse Bertrand

1y↑3

Saw your warning too late. Got hit, right in the middle.

Christian Bartholemue

As if seeing her live with that see thru top on and nipples hard AF wasn't enough... She just had to go and make music with Massive attack

sepertela

1y↑1

True

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pistol grip

2y↑5

Listein to this song is like eating the most incredible food until you want to puke !

Miroslav Kyurkchiev

5y↑726

My own interpretation: the video represents how we slowly lose our identity after we've been hurt/forsaken by someone we love. Many of us create an outer wall to protect ourselves, and look like we've turned into a stone without any feelings.

MARYANNE269

That's is a very good reply/ interpretation X It's the first time I've herd this song! Glad I found it, unfinished sympathy is my go to song when needed. X I must listen more of there work! Xx

J Awesomes

Great analogy

nina alfa

2y↑2

Miroslav Kyurkchiev I interpreted it a different way, this portrays how we try to keep the memory or the image of the people who we have loved and lost but as time goes on the image we had or ( imagined ) for them fades slowly until it becomes faceless 😞

edry

or maybe to see the person ,whole.not the picture we in love.

SilliVilliN

Many interpretations, one of the beautiful things about art, but I can really see what you mean. 👍

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RAJ SWAMI

2y↑15

19l march 2019 10 pm I found my utopia

Ana Lessa

2y↑21

I see Blanchett, I click.

It'sLyli

same here

Milo

44w↑99

It's not that you still love "them"... it's that you love and miss "who you were."
They're both gone, that's the hardest part.

heshakesitforfatty

I do love him though... And I miss us, both.

Román G-R

22w

💔

Roy V 2046

40w↑2

It's me that I miss when I think about you... the man that I was, I can't be that it's true. :|

Alejandra M

43w↑81

we fall in love with the ideas we have about that person, but reality is another, reality hits us over and over again until we learn that we should not Idealize that person we like but rather see them as they really are....

Alejandra M

39w↑1

@Felipe Soares that's right...

Felipe Soares

39w↑7

Passion makes us idealize people, when we truly love someone, all that passion fades and we are just delighted by the person's existence. And it's a privilege to truly love someone such as mothers loves their children and old couples love each other.

Sarosh

4y↑839

I am so (pleasantly) surprised by seeing a comparatively large number of meaningful and thoughtful comments in the comment section of this video, which rarely happens on youtube.

K-leb

11w

Yeah. They're a bit cheesy though.

Saint Higgs

1y↑1

The effect of Hope Sandoval

Johnny Blaze

Piss off.

Guitar of Destiny

2y↑1

@Luisa Louvel buttholes and vaginas!!!!!

Jenna Almond

2y↑1

Yes me too, they are lovely comments :)

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Jenni Elina Holopainen

2y↑107

I once loved, and lost. I thought the pain never goes away.
Now that I hear this song, there is no pain, I remember, but the face is not there, the pain is not there, and I felt just love.

Krisztina Nagy

41w

Wonderful

Leo Sahlén

1y↑1

Jenni Elina Holopainen thank you for these words. It has the same effect on me.

Cold Castorp

46w↑336

0:08 - Modern Day Actress
1:51 - 18th Century Death Masks
2:54 - Human Structure
3:54 - Pompeii ( A.D. 79 )
4:21 - 3.000 B.C.
5:09 - 10.000 B.C.

Michaela KUNZ

7w↑1

His comment cant be scientifically due to the fact that there is simple no scientifical proof for his numbers. Summa sumarum, he is sharing some estimations, impressions and feelings. 😊

Dark Helmet

22w↑1

Thank you so much!

A L

27w↑1

Nope, she is showing all of her layers.....stop trying to scientifically or historically emphasize this music video, art, and emotions into data

i roll pty

28w↑2

2:18 hee heeee

Samgab

30w↑1

...and Into Dust.

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Jim Lintner

2y↑11

In my view, this a women who lost the only one she ever loved. She loved him so much that’s she not angry. She wants him to be happy. She waits. And her love is so strong that it transcends time. She waits. She dies, and still her love, waits. A very powerful message. Nice job Massive Attack!

Wolfgang Schnermann

9w↑11

I saw Hope Sandoval playing live with Mazzy Star, back in the 90‘s. She was so beautiful and stoned that the heaven would fall down to the stage.

Roselle D

2y↑14

im happy to be guided here by Cate Blanchett. this song is amazing.

Ines di Lorenzo

2y↑53

Indeed, the timeless agony of being in love with an image or an idea of a person that exists ONLY in your head.

Whitefeather

17w

I wish there was someone I could tell my story to.

Franco Cavalcante

22w

Just perfect.....!

Kimmy

2y↑1

Perfect description in a nutshell.

X Y

2y↑16

This must be what heartbreak sounds like. I’ve never heard anything so excruciatingly painful yet so breathtakingly beautiful at the same time like this.

Eric Jourdain

11w↑1

I just broke up and I confirm with tears.

mamaziha

3w↑1

Jabba Smith

4w↑2

Best experience in wonderful music, makes me breathless every time...headphones max volume, close your eyes and let it into your mind! I am thankful for the people who released this into the world

MarkB 1181

20w↑23

Cate Blanchett- Face
Massive Attack- Body
Hope Sandoval- Voice

Truly a beautiful combination of talent. Absolutely love this song & video 💯💯

Andrew B.

1y↑53

After countless listens to this over the past two years, this song hasn't aged a day.

Gerardo Migliorini

10w

@Bobbi Bueno it truly is food for my SOUL ...

Bobbi Bueno

Real

Fran

9w↑13

if i die staring into cate blanchett's eyes i'd die the most happy person ever

Black Rainbow

2y↑33

The gorgeous Cate Blanchett. Her face looks like it has been chiselled by God himself out of stone from Mt. Olympus

Elsie Germanos

18w↑2

masterpiece

Brooke Mcdonald

13w↑17

This song crushes me and I cannot even.

PaddyUWU McKennaOWO

2y↑45

Rip mom i hope you're listening to this song in heaven <3

357CLOUDY Black Feather

1y↑1

Take care...

Lizzy Ari

3y↑581

You gotta listen to this song with some good headphones. In a dark room, at your fav go to spot, driving home after a long day or just take a drive at night. It'll give you the gooseys...

Yolanda Beckford

27w

I got the headphones

Cheeky Cupcake

I have a pair of Grado headphones and this song is brilliant, you get such a real feeling of her sadness, pain and loneliness but some how you know she survives it to go on with her life knowing she had a glimmer of a real feelings of love. The kind of love that explodes your heart when you look into their eyes!

Cheeky Cupcake

I do!

A H

real talk

jaim haas

@STARISE SUN careful you may connect with another dimension.

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yarin levy

This song gave me the craziest goosebumps ive ever had

OceanMetTheSky

1y↑36

Something about the chorus of this song drives me into a nostalgic depression.

Christa Pryor

26w

I know the feeling you're talking about! I get those feelings when listening to DCD, This Mortal Coil, certain Cure songs, etc..it's really painful. These are songs that are amazing, but I feel like I'm grieving during & after I hear them. Maybe not as intense for you, LOLOLOL but, this is how I am. hugs

Felipe Gois

@dothedeedee
Depression with Chvrches?😂😂😂😂😂
In my case, I'll most put my head under a train

dothedeedee

Had one of those today listening to chvrches

Felipe Gois

Deeply true!

Maya Kozyrava

42w↑35

Reading comments, gives me hope for artistic, deep, soulful human beings out there...
Its getting frightening sometimes with police state outside....

Eric Jourdain

11w

Do not worry, we are here, everywhere 💕

ギンジェリ

15w

uhhuh

edzio wataszka

38w↑5

Yes, we are still here.

David Ellis

2y↑34

Every 5 years Massive Attack release a new record. And every 5 years we get to be awed. Astonishing.

Torment

Hope a new one comes soon

Austin Hunt

2y↑1

David Ellis: What’s the name of the MA album that was released 5 years ago?

Steve Beck

2y↑20

oh my. Cate Blanchett. Tilda Swinton. Helena Bonham Carter. My images.

Alwinna Borras

25w

❤

Jonathan Rocha Linhares

26w↑12

One of the best songs I've listened to in my whole life, this is a masterpiece.

Metzly Cortés

19w↑11

This song reminds me of how our minds work. How when someone who we deeply love dies and our memories are still fresh in our heads. But with age, the images of their eyes and their lips, the sound of their voices, the memories that we've created together start fading away. I think this video truly represents memory loss/Alzheimer. Thank you for this.

OceanMetTheSky

15w

I can see your point of view. For me, the song is about letting go of someone you love romantically even though you still love them and watching someone else fall in love with them

naniznaniz

1y↑75

naniznaniz

@Elysion B 🖤🖤🖤

Elysion B

1y↑1

cool, so we have indeed listened to the same song, omg.

Nita Collins

1y↑2

Nobody here that keeps you in the shade will ever owe you
Some sentimental tears or someone else's girl I dreampt away

Paranoid asteroid

2y↑19

I want to hug that song so tight and never let it go
Away

Tenacious D

48w↑17

The string arrangement on this track is incredibly beautiful. I have times when I just can’t listen to this song because it’s too emotional. This morning I listened, and felt a calmness. Current goings-on are recalibrating outlooks and memories. Music is just so powerful. 💓

Alex R

41w↑1

I feel exactly the same

Vokk M9bile

28w↑15

Cate's face is so inspiring, so different from doll-like beauties that only Cate can be here

NöE

2y↑28

saumya shukla

4y↑512

She starts as a complete memory in his mind. it fades slowly and slowly as it is recalled seldom. he remembers her in different colored lights like different situations that change his memory of her. Her memory gets warped to the extent that it slowly loses its features and and disintegrates completely. She is lost in a dark corner of his mind, all withered. She is forgotten.From a face to a feeling to a form to a color. And then lost.

Jenelle Vallee

2y↑3

I think your comment on the song also fits death to, the the sense after someone dies the memory over the years changes....I also just lost my grandpa a couple weeks ago and this song and you have a very nice comment

Omg Finally

2y↑1

As if the song werent sad enough, you just had to go and make it even worse lol

Samantha Fay Sandoval

2y↑1

Samantha Fay Sandoval

2y↑1

AND..so the LOST IS FOUND BY GOD .TAKEN INTO HIS GRACE..HE MERCY...THE HUMAN SPIRIT NEVER DIES..our flesh is finally gone. Lord let our spirits rise..our Energy will never die! Heaven

Chandrahas Naphade

2y↑1

That resonated with me so much it brought an involuntary tear to my eye...

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WHO SEEKS

1y↑2

Clicked for Cate Blanchett
Stayed for the amazing Fucking art

variabile27

2y↑19

I can't say she's beautiful or attractive in a traditional way, but all the same I can't deny it's an extraordinary experience to look at her and tremble deep in my heart

K Edmodson

6w↑1

I’d love to put this amongst my favourites in my CDs, but it was never released on CD, shame. Maybe one day.

357CLOUDY Black Feather

1y↑6

The video made me think of what Alzheimers disease does. Love and miss you Mom.

Artsiom Yesis

1y↑644

You, yes you, who's reading.
You are awesome. Don't be sad. Everything will be fine.

Wandering Biku

19w

Thanks buddy. I needed that!

Olaf5on

22w

I like You man. Life is beautiful.

Vanessa Cabello

22w

If you repent of your sins, believe in Jesus Christ, God's Son, who died for the sins of the world, and follow Him, you will be saved.

Dark Helmet

22w

I wish.

kyriaki koursari

24w

Thank you!! You are an awsome too...<3

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K-leb

11w↑9

I honestly feel like this song could've been a bit longer. The strings seemed to be building up to some long climax section at 3:53 but then make a sudden turn back into obscurity while Hope sings her last refrain. This song is absolutely beautiful, but I can't help but feel slightly disappointed at that section.

Philip Kingsnorth

32w↑14

The very 1st time I listened to this as the string section started I absolutely uncontrollably burst into tears such a powerful song

Xto Has

2y↑14

I very seriously hope this team wins an Academy Award for this visual piece, it really is an impeccably directed and executed production and you will rarely find a visual piece that is so well matched to the emotions of the audio as this one is, right down to the very frame.
The last few frames you can barely see as it fades to black are her face again.
Truly a masterpiece

kittyonfire00

2y↑13

Cate Blanchett is perfect for this music video. You can feel the music more by looking at her full of emotions. Cate’s charisma...

Iosif reppas

I get that feeling that this voice is so familiar even tho i may have heard it only in this song...

El Ente

2y↑25

I appreciate so much having been born, raised and lived in an era where music exists as Massive Attack.

кคเ คเк๏

15w↑1

the amount of times i listened to this already.
this is breathtakingly beautiful yet so painfully heartbreaking..

i'm mon

2y↑13

Cate Blanchett 😍
I very LOVE her, she is so beautiful... She is my idol💕💕💕

Kirsten Anderson

37w↑5

This song is for me, the agony and ecstasy of love, unrequited.

funkysexy69

43w↑17

Hope Sandoval + Massive Attack only thing getting me thru these tough, crazy times...sending whole lotta luv to everyone, going thru some tough times, especially during this quarantine time..🙏🏽💗🖤

Kuljit Samra

42w↑2

We will get there one day. There is hope and hope Sandoval to get us through.

Pierre Custodio

1y↑14

This one and Paradise Circus are my favorites Massive Attack songs.
Thanks Hope Sandoval.
Love Cate 💙

Matt Bryan

4y↑544

They totally casted Cate Blanchett because of her face. Sculpted by the gods.

MrPaiute

30w

Only if measured by the european standard of beauty. First nations women make Cate Blanchett look like a dog

Jose Schmoe

47w

@Micah Wot emotion. She's not doing nothing!

Jose Schmoe

47w

@E — But Sandoval's body now looks like it was sculpted by Botero by way of Ruben.

shelz Black

1y↑4

I love Cate she's beautiful

Mugwump

1y↑1

Fun fact: her face was sculpted by her DNA. And apparently some scanner/3D modeling program ;)

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Mark Lewis

41w↑22

Six minutes and eighteen seconds of perfection.

Graham McDougall

38w↑2

It's just beautiful.

Molly M.

Lana del Rey was definitely "influenced" by this singer.

Buse Boskurt

6w↑1

I swear I'm in looove with this song, I never love any song more than this

Lógica Astrologica

9w↑1

Magnificent face, of a sun incarnat.

lekkki1

3y↑244

Hope Sandoval and Cate Blanchett and Massive Attack. Just, wow. Brilliant.

Sarah Cox

46w↑1

@shirinf333 ,well said.

ANTISCYLLIS NEOCHT

50w↑2

*teardrop

Marie-Elyse Bertrand

So true!

Mugwump

1y↑1

@C'est Moi She's just all over this video, but OK.

shirinf333

1y↑8

@C'est Moi You certainly did fail to see it

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vma wideo

2y↑16

My idea is the video is about realizing how you're slowly vanishing from the memory of the loved one who's left you.

357CLOUDY Black Feather

1y↑4

For me it was the ugly march of Alzheimers on our Mom.
Blessings to you.

Georgi Dadov

2y↑2

So beautiful that it hurts.
They totally casted Cate Blanchett because of her face. Sculpted by the gods.

MerinaisaPCapfan

2y↑6

I love that the video has Kate Blanchett! I didn’t know she was in a music video at all, this is cool! ☺️

Anna Soares Official

2y↑13

Makes me cry everytime, such a beauty inside this piece of art.

lorelei

5y↑232

I love it when Massive Attack pairs up with female vocalists. This might be my track of the year.

Cusp Craft Tarot

4y↑2

it took me forever to get Quixotic, it was never released in canada...I love that album. i haven't even heard of the one you're talking about...now the search is on!! good to meet a fellow fan

John Arundell

4y↑2

Yeah she has a good album of her own called Some Place Simple from 2010 which must have sunk without a trace I think I only found it by chance last year .. always loved her on Tricky's first few albums :) real chanteuse.

Cusp Craft Tarot

4y↑1

lol, oh good...i thought i'd lost my mind...she is one of my favs

John Arundell

4y↑2

Martina has toured with Massive Attack over the years so that counts as pairing up :)

Cusp Craft Tarot

4y↑1

but wait that was Tricky lol...nvm

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Craig Carlson

18w↑6

I'm late to this party, having just stumbled across this combination of Hope and Massive Attack. Wow. Add me to the long list of folks hoping they do an entire CD collaboration.

Sanika Mane

This is a song about someone breaking up with life

Ruth Lane, Attorney

2y↑3

The evolution of her face to something slowly unrecognizable to me is very symbolic given the lyrics of the song.

David

This song gives me such an indescribable feeling. Incredible

Emma ore

1y↑9

This makes me cry.. As I see my mum the way I did when I first can remember.. To see her changing hurts my soul.. Even tho she's still beautiful. I wanna keep her forever .

Sola Lácrima

1y↑1

Stay strong emma..i really wanna keep my mom forever too..

Manon B

1y↑1

I send you love Emma ...

Paulina Guerrero

1y↑5

Hope Sandoval needs to work more with massive attack. And Blanchett, Hermes!

Varga Gábor

4w↑3

Massive Attack is the reflection, it is in many ways the conscience of us. It is a multilateral art on it's highest level. A quality and also grace for humans. So lifting, so deep, so true and yes, so hurting. I LOVE YOU.

Ironpyrites

8w↑1

I feel blessed that I will be haunted by her voice all my life.

Felipe Arantes

5y↑61

Massive Blanchett
Cate Attack

hiddenpenguin11

2y↑3

Treasure in a sea of deeply interpretative comments.

steve evans

1y↑8

A Hope Sandoval masterclass!!

MJL0611

13w↑3

I'm a simple guy. I see Hope Sandoval and Cate Blanchett in the same video. I click.

Email Account

2y↑10

The power of Hope. Forever you'll hold the hand inside me and take my breath that's true

Helen Goodwin

50w↑1

Fade into you, my all time favourite x

Georgia

2y↑12

With this image of a past love in our heads, we are stuck in time and cannot move on, or forward.

Vernon Valdmanis

18w↑1

heartbreaking forgivness.

Samgab

30w↑6

I’m a massive Attack fan, and Hope Sandoval is a Star... How did I only just now discover this song?

Luke Johnson

Any of you yet figure out Robert Del Naja is Banksey!?🧐

Go! Tracks Beats

2y↑3

wow this is more then awesome! love the orchestral feel!

ddubrul

4y↑316

I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight
Nobody here that keeps you in the shade and ever owned you
Some sentimental tears or someone else's girl that drips away
But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away
I got that feeling, that bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her but I hope that she comforts you tonight
And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away, away
And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you
But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away

suzane ludwig

Thank 🎶you 🎶 soooooooooooooooooooo 🎼 🎶much for the lyrics 🎶

Kimmy

Thanks for posting it

Pen Azer

2y↑1

Heaven

Montreal 514

ddubrul 😍😍

The Buffalo.

3y↑2

Thank you.

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DaviD

16w↑1

Geniuses of our time. I love to make music but I could only dream of making something this real.

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