Numb Is the lead single from Portisheads debut album Dummy
The single, and music video released on June 13th 1994, and released four days later in Australia where it would see it most mainstream attention.
The song would not chart in the UK or US, but landed at the 213th position in Australia’s to...
[Verse 1]
I'm ever so lost
I can't find my way
Been searching, but I have never seen
A turning, a turning from deceit
[Chorus]
'Cause the child rose as life
Tried to reveal what I could feel
[Verse 2]
I can't understand myself anymore
'Cause I'm still feeling lonely
Feeling so unholy
[Chorus]
'Cause the child rose as light
Tried to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone
[Verse 3]
I'm fooling somebody
A faithless path I roam
Deceiving to breathe this secretly
A silence, this silence I can't bear
[Chorus]
'Cause the child rose as life
Tries to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, oh no
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone
[Outro]
A lady of woe
A lady of woe
Numb was written by Geoff Barrow & Beth Gibbons & Adrian Utley.
Numb was produced by Portishead & Adrian Utley.
Portishead released Numb on Mon Jun 06 1994.
It sounded so heavy when we first did it. I remember being really into and taking it on cassette to a session I did with that singer out of Free, Paul Rodgers, and Jeff Beck, and they super did not get it. They said that the snare drum sounds like a tin can. I was like, “Yeah! Wicked! It does!”
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