Tricky [Town & Country Club, Leeds 1997]

Town & Country Club
Leeds, UK (30.04.97)

about 60 min
vocals: Tricky, Martina

1	Ponderosa
2	'One man army' (with "Andrew Smith lyrics")* (You Tube: audio only)
3	Overcome
4	Christiansands
5	Sex drive
6	Makes me wanna die
7	Tricky kid
8	Black steel
9	Feed me
10	Vent
11	'You' (Tear out my eyes)
12	Suffocated love

You can listen to the whole show on MixCloud (BBC broadcast, perfect sound)
or on You Tube.

* Tricky often said in interviews that he wrote a song about Andrew Smith (writer for The Face magazine), because he portrayed him in the press as a bad father (in this article):
"So he wrote a song about "putting [Smith] in the boot of a car shooting his face". Tricky gave the tune, "Darker Magic", to British rapper Silvah (ne Silver) Bullet, and this summer it may finally come out, on Bullet's album. "Fuck the music industry, let's take it back to the council flats, guns, grenades and baseball bats," it goes, roughly." (The Face, May 98)
This live song mixes these lyrics with lyrics from Massive Attack's "Five Man Army" (which is probably why they called it "One Man Army"). He also played that song at the Elysee Montmartre in Paris one week before, but with totally different music and Cath Coffey singing backing vocals. Check out the setlist and the lyrics here. (The real song 'Darker Magic' surfaced in 2017 on a CDR with the unreleased album of Silver Bullet, check out the collaborations discography here. Only the "chorus" fuck the music industry... were taken from Darker Magic).

These are the lyrics for 'One Man Army' (as far as I understand them):

Tricky:
Trendy Wendy you know what I mean,
Hangin' around with a girl rolling up her jeans.
watches her street cred 'cause she's no dummy,
rockin the microphone and now she's calling me a honey.

Says I know what I want, don't move with thugs,
We're house parties hip hop and smoking drugs
And whoever's been the boss she's down with 'em,
She's always on time 'cause the girl got rhythm.

Says I know what I want, says I know what I want,
Says I know what I want, don't move with thugs
we're house parties hip hop and smoking drugs,
smoking drugs, smoking drugs.

Says I know what I want,
She says I know what I want,
She says I know what I want.

Fuck the music industry,
let's take it back to the council flats,
guns, grenades and baseball bats.

Words, a liars (?), words, I got a notion.
Words, a liars (?), words, I got a notion.

Trendy Wendy you know what I mean,
Hangin' around with a girl rolling up her jeans.
She watches her street cred 'cause she's no dummy,
Saw rockin the microphone and now she's calling me a honey.

Says I know what I want, don't move with thugs,
We're house parties hip hop and smoking drugs
smoking drugs (repeated)

Says I know what I want,
She says I know what I want,
smoking drugs, smoking drugs.

It's ok, it's ok,
We've been through too much yesterday.
We'll disarm ya, ask Julian Palmer,
Only joking, too much smoking,
Only joking, too much smoking,
We'll disarm ya, ask Julian Palmer,
We'll disarm ya, ask Julian Palmer,
Only joking, too much smoking,
But It's ok, but it's ok,
smoke your drugs, smoke your drugs,

She says I know what I want,
smoking drugs,
says I know what I want,
smoking drugs.

We'll disarm ya, ask Julian Palmer,
Only joking, too much smoking,
Only joking, too much smoking,
But It's ok,
We've been through too much yesterday.
But It's ok, but it's ok,
We've been through too much yesterday.
Smoking drugs,
Only joking, too much smoking,
too much smoking,
I'm only joking, I'm only smoking,
I'm only joking, too much smoking, smoking.

Smoking drugs. (repeated)

Only joking, too much smoking.
Smoking drugs (repeated)

Some lyrics later ended up in the song 'Demise' from 'Angels With Dirty Faces': "I don't know, I don't know, We'll disarm ya, ask Julian Palmer, Only joking, too much smoking, But It's ok, it's ok, We've been through too much yesterday."

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