This song is very unusual in that it only uses two chords for the entire song. The bass line is highly prominent, with other elements wisping in and out.
Massive Attack uses a variety of vocalists. This one is sung by the reggae singer Horace Andy. It's based on Andy's 1973 song "You Are My Angel."
Massive Attack's Robert "3D" Del Naja was a young graffiti artist before becoming a vocalist and he designed the Mezzanine cover art. He told The Guardian February 6, 2010 about it: "By this point I'd painted on wood, on metal, on canvas and with this album I wanted to go for something more photographic. I started off with images of spiders. I was really obsessed, having mad dreams about them; I wanted a spider's abdomen on the back of the album cover and I wanted to develop this idea of making clothes from spider skin. It was all very trippy s--t that proved quite difficult to make it into anything, but then Nick Knight showed me these shots of beetles that he'd taken in the Natural History Museum. They were really beautiful. That kind of settled it."
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