Portishead 3 - some lyrics...

Well I've had my copy of Portishead 3 (aka Portishead - Third) for a couple of days now but I'm listening to it too much to have found time to work the lyrics out for myself. I don't know if the CD version has them printed inside and the download almost certainly doesn't. My vinyl copy certainly doesn't but I'll forgive it that!

Here are some courtesy of www.metrolyrics.com/third-album-portishead.html
I can't guarantee that they are complete or even correct but it is a start! If you know of others, or indeed more reliable ones then please add them in a comment or let me know otherwise.


Hunter

No-one said
We’d ever known each other
And new evidence is what we require
In this world.

I stand on the edge of a broken sky
And I will come down; don’t know why
And if I should fall, would you hold me?
Would you pass me by?
For you know I’d ask you for nothing
Just to wait for a while.

So confused
My thoughts are takin’ over
Unwanted, arising space me instead
Won’t let go.

I stand on the edge of a broken sky
And I will come down; don’t know why
And if I should fall, would you hold me?
Would you pass me by?
For you know I’d ask you for nothing
Just to wait for a while.


Magic Doors

I can't deny what I've become
I'm just emotionally undone
I can't deny I can with 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.

All the muse in myself
My desire I can't hide
No reason and I thought.

I can't divide they'll 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 felt that I don't wade
Into the gift of my mistake
Again, again I'm wrong, and I confess
All the muse in myself
My desire I can't hide,
No reason I thought.

All the muse in myself
My desire I can't hide,
No reason I thought.


Nylon Smile

I'd like to laugh at what you said
but I just can't find a smile
I wonder why you can't.
I struggle with myself
Hoping I might change a little,
Hoping that I might be
Someone I wanna be.

Looking out I wanna know someone might care
Looking out I want a reason to be there
'cause I don't know what I did to deserve you
I don't know what I'll do, without you.

Looking out I wanna know someway might clear
Looking out I want a reason to repair
'cause I don't know what I did to deserve you
I don't know what I'll do, without you

I can't see nothing good
and nothing is so bad
I've never had the chance to explain
Exactly what I meant.

I'd like to laugh at what you said
but I just can't find a smile
I wonder why you can't
I struggle with myself
Hoping I might change a little
Hoping that I might be
Someone I wanna be.

Looking out I wanna know someone might care
Looking out I want a reason to be there
'Cause I don't know what I did to deserve you
I don't know what I'll do, without you.

Looking out I wanna know some way might clear
Looking out I want a reason to repair
'Cause I don't know what I did to deserve you
I don't know what I'll do, without you.

I can't see nothing good
and nothing is so bad
I've never had the chance to explain
Exactly what I meant.