Magic Doors
Portishead Lyrics


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I can't deny what I've become
I'm just emotionally undone
I can't deny, I can't be someone else
When I have tried to find the words
To describe this sense absurd
Try to resist my thoughts but I can't lie

I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

I can't divide or hide from me
I don't know who I'm meant to be
I guess it's just the person that I am
Often I've dreamt that I don't wade
Enjoy the gift of my mistake
But yet again I'm wrong, and I confess

I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

I'm losing myself




My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Portishead's song "Magic Doors" are a reflection on the struggle of identity and self-awareness. The singer expresses feelings of uncertainty and confusion about who they are and what they want. They acknowledge their emotional vulnerability and admit they can't hide it. They know they can't be anyone else, but still find it difficult to accept and understand themselves.


The chorus, "I'm losing myself, my desire I can't hide, no reason am I for," highlights the internal conflict faced by the singer. They are losing themselves to their desires and can no longer hide it. They question their worth and struggle to find a reason for their existence.


The verse, "Often I've dreamt that I don't wade, enjoy the gift of my mistake, but yet again I'm wrong, and I confess," suggests that the singer has made mistakes and regrets, but also recognizes the value of these experiences. They long for a life free from these burdens and wish to enjoy the gift of making mistakes without judgment. However, they find themselves trapped in a cycle of uncertainty and self-doubt.


Overall, the lyrics to "Magic Doors" offer a poignant insight into the human condition of self-awareness and self-acceptance. It conveys the pain and struggles of coming to terms with who we are and accepting ourselves for it.


Line by Line Meaning

I can't deny what I've become
I can't pretend to be someone I'm not


I'm just emotionally undone
I'm overwhelmed by my own emotions


I can't deny, I can't be someone else
I can't ignore who I really am


When I have tried to find the words
I struggle to express myself


To describe this sense absurd
To explain this inexplicable feeling


Try to resist my thoughts but I can't lie
I try to fight my thoughts but I can't deny them


I'm losing myself
I'm slowly losing my sense of identity


My desire I can't hide
I can't suppress what I really want


No reason am I for
I have no explanation for my behavior


I can't divide or hide from me
I can't separate myself from myself


I don't know who I'm meant to be
I'm unsure of my true purpose


I guess it's just the person that I am
I suppose I'm just being true to myself


Often I've dreamt that I don't wade
I often dream that I'm not drowning


Enjoy the gift of my mistake
Accept the lesson learned from my errors


But yet again I'm wrong, and I confess
But I make the same mistake again, and I admit it




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Written by: BETH GIBBONS, GEOFFREY PAUL BARROW, JOHN BAGGOTT

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@twinflames5882

I can't deny what I've become
I'm just emotionally undone
I can't deny, I can't be someone else
When I have tried to find the words
To describe this sense absurd
Try to resist my thoughts but I can't lie
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for
I can't divide or hide from me
I don't know who I'm meant to be
I guess it's just the person that I am
Often I've dreamt that I don't wade
Enjoy the gift of my mistake
But yet again I'm wrong, and I confess
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for



@henriqueramos3197

MAGIC DOORS
Released: 24 November 2008

[Verse 1]
I can't deny what I've become
I'm just emotionally undone
I can't deny, I can't be someone else
When I have tried to find the words
To describe this sense absurd
Try to resist my thoughts, but I can't lie

[Chorus]
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

[Verse 2]
I can't divide or hide from me
I don't know who I'm meant to be
I guess it's just the person that I am
Often I've dreamt that I don't wade
Enjoy the gift of my mistake
But yet again, I'm wrong and I confess

[Chorus]
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

Produced by Portishead
Written by Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow & John Baggott
Album THIRD (2008)



@henriqueramos3197

PORTISHEAD - TRIP-HOP FOREVER!

Portishead (/pɔːrtɪsˈhɛd/) are an English band formed in 1991 in Bristol. The band is named after Portishead, Somerset, eight miles west of Bristol, along the coast. The band comprises vocalist Beth Gibbons, producer Geoff Barrow, and musician Adrian Utley; Dave McDonald, an engineer on their first records, is sometimes cited as the fourth member.
Portishead's debut album, Dummy (1994), fused hip hop production with yearning vocals from Gibbons and an atmospheric, cinematic style reminiscent of spy film soundtracks. The album was met with commercial and critical acclaim, quickly becoming a landmark album in the emerging trip hop genre. However, the band disliked being associated with the term, and would consciously step away from that sound on later releases. Two other studio albums have been issued: Portishead in 1997 and Third in 2008, both of which received similar acclaim. In 1998, the band released a concert album, Roseland NYC Live.
Portishead's music was influenced by a wide range of singers and composers. Gibbons's voice has been compared to singer Billie Holiday. Utley mentioned the spaghetti western guitar composed by Ennio Morricone; he said that "[Morricone's] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the sort of soundtrack that I love".
The discography of British trip hop group Portishead consists of three studio albums, one live album, one compilation, ten singles and one video album. The Bristol-based band consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley.
And I have the great honor of having in my discography the three studio CD-albums, including the live CD-Álbum.
Therefore, I have three copies of the CD-Album, DUMMY (1994), three copies of the CD-Album PORTISHEAD (1997), one unit of the live CD-Album ROSELAND NYC LIVE (1998), and finally the last CD-Studio album, THIRD (2008), only a single unit. In all, there are eight CD-albums that I have from this Trip-Hop trio, one of the pioneers of this electronic music genre, in addition, of course, to Massive Attack, among others that appeared at the same time, and others a little later. TRIP-HOP FOREVER!
Third is the third and most recent studio album by the English band Portishead. It was released on 28 April 2008 in the United Kingdom by Island Records and a day later in the United States by Mercury Records. Portishead's first studio album in eleven years, Third moved away from the trip hop style they had popularised, incorporating influences such as krautrock, surf rock, doo wop and the film soundtracks of John Carpenter.
After Portishead released their self-titled second album in 1997, band member Geoff Barrow put Portishead on hiatus and moved to Australia. He became uninterested in music, and efforts to develop new songs with guitarist and keyboardist Adrian Utley failed. They were inspired to create again after producing with the band the Coral, and restarted work with singer Beth Gibbons in Bristol, England.
Third entered the top ten of several countries' music charts and was certified gold in the UK. It was named one of the best albums of 2008 by several publications; in 2013, NME ranked it number 330 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Described as an electronica, experimental rock and psychedelic rock record, Third departs from Portishead's trip hop sound, the genre they had popularised with their albums Dummy (1994) and Portishead (1997). It also contains no turntable scratching, a hallmark of their earlier albums. Gareth Grundy of Q wrote that "Third's sole link with the past is Gibbons' voice ... Everything else has been binned, the hip hop, the cinematic feel, the lot." Instead, the album contains "muscular" synthesisers, drum breaks and abrupt endings, with "propulsive" krautrock rhythms, break beats, cathedral organ, "Moroccan drones" and surf rock. The AV Club wrote that singer Gibbons "sounds more hollowed-out and harrowed than ever, a human nervous twitch on too much coffee and too little sleep".
The opening track, "Silence", has a "propulsive" drum loop and "Morse code"-like guitar. "We Carry On" has a "claustrophobic" two-note electro riff; Rolling Stone likened it to the work of the American psychedelic band Silver Apples. "Deep Water" is a "ukulele doo-wop". "Machine Gun" is driven by a "mechanical" rhythm that gives way to synthesisers which Drowned in Sound likened to the soundtracks of the 1980s films The Terminator and Blade Runner. "Magic Doors" features "huge" piano chords, "tick-tocking" cowbell, and "corrupted" brass.
Third was released on 28 April 2008 on Island Records in the United Kingdom, 29 April Mercury Records in the United States,[citation needed] and 30 April on Universal Music Japan in Japan.[citation needed] It entered the UK Albums Chart at number two and the US Billboard 200 at number seven, becoming Portishead's highest US chart debut, selling 53,000 copies.
On 8 and 9 December 2007, Portishead curated the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, England, and performed their first full sets in nearly 10 years, including tracks from Third. On 21 January 2008, Portishead announced a European tour to support the album, with a headline spot at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 26 April 2008, their only US date on the tour.
On 21 April 2008, a week before its release, Third was made available as a free stream on Last.fm, attracting 327,000 listeners in 24 hours. It was the first time Last.fm made an album available before its release. Third was the fifth-bestselling vinyl record of 2008, selling 12,300 copies.
1995 Mercury Prize Dummy Album of the Year Won, NME Awards Themselves Best Dance Act Nominated, MTV Europe Music Awards Best New Act Nominated. Edison Awards Best International Dance/Rap Won, Brit Awards British Breakthrough Act Nominated, 1997 GAFFA Awards (Denmark) Beth Gibbons Best Foreign Female Act Nominated, 1998 Žebřík Music Awards Best International Female Nominated, 1999 Online Music Awards Themselves Best Alternative Fansite Nominated, 2008 Rober Awards Music Prize Best Band Won, Cutting Edge Won, Best Electronica Won, Third Album of the Year, Won, The Rip "Single of the Year Won, Themselves Best Live Artist Nominated, 2016 Ivor Novello Awards Outstanding Contribution to British Music Won, Music Week Sync Awards "SOS" Film Soundtrack Won, Rober Awards Music Poll Best Cover Version Won.



@henriqueramos3197

MAGIC DOORS
Released: 24 November 2008

[Verse 1]
I can't deny what I've become
I'm just emotionally undone
I can't deny, I can't be someone else
When I have tried to find the words
To describe this sense absurd
Try to resist my thoughts, but I can't lie

[Chorus]
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

[Verse 2]
I can't divide or hide from me
I don't know who I'm meant to be
I guess it's just the person that I am
Often I've dreamt that I don't wade
Enjoy the gift of my mistake
But yet again, I'm wrong and I confess

[Chorus]
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

Produced by Portishead
Written by Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow & John Baggott
Album THIRD (2008)



@69v96

Nie mogę wyprzeć się tego, kim zostałam.
Po prostu jestem emocjonalnie zniweczona.
Nie mogę się wypierać, nie mogę być kimś innym.

Kiedy spróbowałam znaleźć słowa,
by opisać to poczucie absurdu,
spróbować odeprzeć swoje myśli...
Ale nie potrafię kłamać.

Tracę siebie.
Pragnienie, którego nie umiem ukryć...
Nie ma powodu, dla którego tu jestem...?

Nie potrafię się rozdzielić, albo schować przed sobą.
Nie wiem kim miałam być.
Zdaje się, że po prostu tą osobą, którą jestem...

Często marzyłam o tym, że nie czekam,
że cieszę się darem mojego błędu.
Lecz po raz kolejny jestem w błędzie i przyznaję się do tego.

Tracę siebie.
Pragnienie, którego nie umiem ukryć...
Nie ma powodu, dla którego tu jestem...?
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https://www.tekstowo.pl/piosenka,portishead,magic_doors.html



@firunewsted5625

I can't deny what I've become
I'm just emotionally undone
I can't deny, I can't be someone else

When I have tried to find the words
To describe this sense absurd
Try to resist my thoughts, but I can't lie

I'm losing myself
My desire I can't have
No reason am I for 



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@yourjunes

The production on this song is fucking CRAZY. I don't even understand how something can be mixed this good. Like even with the compression from youtube it sounds crystal clear, and the balance is some kind of sorcery?! This should literally be part of course material is music theory classes, I NEED PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW GOOD THIS IS AHHHHHHH

@watermusic4381

We understand. Trust me, we understand.

@brunsunev

i've lsitened to all of Portishead's stuff over the past couple months now and they are honestly my favorite band. I feel every tone in their music it just sits with me so well. Thank God for Portishead!!!!!

@0oidiedinatimemachineo024

yeah they're great. I found Portishead a few years ago and they quickly became one of my top ten bands.. I just wish they had more albums! lol They've been around like 25 years now and only 3 albums :( Although all the members of the band do have other projects but none of them are like Portishead.

@dirtystreamer

2022 and still listening Portishead...even if they never return to Music. They made History.

@twinflames5882

I can't deny what I've become
I'm just emotionally undone
I can't deny, I can't be someone else
When I have tried to find the words
To describe this sense absurd
Try to resist my thoughts but I can't lie
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for
I can't divide or hide from me
I don't know who I'm meant to be
I guess it's just the person that I am
Often I've dreamt that I don't wade
Enjoy the gift of my mistake
But yet again I'm wrong, and I confess
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for
I'm losing myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason am I for

@khwabyda

Discovered Portishead a week ago, I'm already a big fan. Third is one of my most favourite albums

@dickmonkey-king1271

They are an incredible band.

@samsepiol4761

Welcome to an a amazing world, just close your eyes and listen them....

@Angel-tn4uj

@Richard Horrockslisten to portishead live in nyc

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