Strangers is the third track on Dummy The debut album by Portishead.
It was part of the soundtrack to the movie Nadja along with the song Roads.
This songs contains samples of Elegant People by The Weather Report and Wait Please by Eddie Harris. The string section in the intro of Strangers is from...
[Verse 1]
Ooh
Can anybody see the light?
Where the morn' meets the dew and the tide rises
Did you realize no one can see inside your view?
Did you realize for why this sight belongs to you?
[Verse 2]
Ooh
Just set aside your fears of life
With the sole desire
[Chorus]
Done it warning, done it now
It ain't real on this side
Done it warning, done it now
It ain't real on this side
[Chorus]
Done it warning, done it now
And it ain't real
Done it warning, done it now
'Cause this ain't real on this side
[Verse 1]
Ooh
Can anybody see the light?
Where the morn' meets the dew and the tide rises
Did you realize no one can see inside your view?
Did you realize for why this sight belongs to you?
Strangers was written by Geoff Barrow & Beth Gibbons & Adrian Utley & Wayne Shorter.
Strangers was produced by Portishead & Adrian Utley.
Portishead released Strangers on Mon Aug 22 1994.
Barrow: It’s got [a] really, like, knocky bass drum. I came up with that, and then from a session I took a chord of an organ or something like that. I put it in the beat, and then I used really heavy compression to make it sound really exciting. Where you hear kick drum everything else goes quiet, a...