Risingson Lyrics
I seen you go down to a cold mirror
It was never clearer in my era so
You lick a shine upon your forehead or
Check it by the signs in the corridor
You light my ways through the club maze
We would struggle through the dub daze
[Verse 2: 3D]
I see myself in there upon my lover
It's how you go down to the men's room sink
Sad we talk of how madmen think
I see myself in there upon my lover
I don't know her from another miss
I don't know you from another
See me run now you're gone, dream on
[Verse 3: Daddy G]
Why you want to take me to this party and breathe?
I'm dying to leave
Every time we grind we know we severed lines
Where have all those flowers gone?
Long time passing
“Why you keep me testing, keep me tasking?”
You keep on asking
Toy-like people make me boy-like
Toy-like people make me boy-like
They're invisible, when they trip, it flips
They get physical, way below my lips
And everything you got hoi-polloi like
Now you're lost, and you're lethal
And now's about the time you gotta leave all
These good people dream on
[Verse 5: 3D]
Nicer than the bird up in the tree top
Cheaper than the chip inside my laptop
All the variations you could do with me
Nicer than the girl up in your mind, you're free
[Verse 6: 3D & Daddy G]
Automatic crystal remote control
They come to move your soul
You're gonna fade into the background
Like a better smoke'll bring you back round
Like a man slide inside you, my dear
Your cheap beer's filled with crocodile tears
See 'em run, now you're gone, dream on
[Outro: 3D]
Toy-like people make me boy-like
Toy-like people make me boy-like
I found a reason
I found a reason
Dream on
Dream on
Dream on
About
The second song (and first single) on the classic Mezzanine, talks about Bristol’s club scene at the time.
Risingson ended up being the first completed song from Mezzanine and was released a good ten months before the album would come out as a limited edition single only within the UK. The single release was intended both to serve as a preview to Massive Attack’s long awaited third album (as they came to the conclusion that the album would not make it’s original 1997 deadline) and also as a promotional tool for the 1997 tour.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Daddy G on Risingson [Mezzanine Interview Disc – March 1998]:
The way we approached the vocals on that track and the fact that it was a totally different way of doing things than we usually do; with the whole thing with the chorus to chorus that we got on it. Quite an unorthodox way of approaching a rap track.
Massive Attack’s guitarist, Angelo Bruschini on Risingson’s chart performance [Q Magazine – January 1999]:
They were very, very nervous. There was a big sigh of relief when that sold, I think.
3D on why Risingson was released almost a year before Mezzanine in 1997 [Collected EPK – March 2006]:
Risingson was a weird track because, it was more developed than some of the other ideas on Mezzanine and we were talking about going on tour that summer [1997], and we felt we needed to justify our presence on stage, so we needed to put something out there, at least!
- 1.Angel
- 2.Risingson
- 3.Teardrop
- 5.Exchange
- 8.Black Milk
- 9.Mezzanine
- 10.Group Four
