Massive Attack

Released: May 16, 2001

Featuring: David Bowie

Songwriter: Eden Ahbez

Producer: Neil Davidge Robert “3D” del Naja Craig Armstrong

[Verse 1: David Bowie]
There was a boy
A very strange
Enchanted boy
They say he wandered
Very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

[Verse 2: David Bowie]
And then one day
One magic day
He passed my way
And while we spoke
Of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me:

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"

[Spoken Outro: Nicole Kidman]
I love you

Massive Attack are an English trip hop group formed in 1988 in Bristol, consisting of Robert “3D” Del Naja, Grant “Daddy G” Marshall and formerly Andy “Mushroom” Vowles.

With their roots in the Bristol, England, club scene of the early 1980s, the members of Massive Attack originated trip-hop, one of the most influential sounds of the 1990s, combining the rhythmic urgency of hip-hop, the freewheeling samples of the DJ’s craft, soul-rich melodies, and dub-reggae’s hefty, intoxicating bottom end.

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