Safe From Harm

Midnight rockers City slickers Gunmen and maniacs All will feature on the freakshow And I can't do nothing 'bout that, no But if you hurt what's mine I'll sure as hell retaliate You can free the world, you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight You can free the world, you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight Terious, terious, terious, infectious and dangerous Friends and enemies find us contagerious I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin' back at me To see me lookin' back at you Lucky dippers Crazy chancers Seems to be moving fast What happened to the nicities Of my childhood days Well I can't do nothing 'bout that, no But if you hurt what's mine I'll sure as hell retaliate You can free the world, you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight You can free the world, you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight Terious, terious, terious, infectious and dangerous Friends and enemies I find it's contagerous And they're spreading through your system like a virus Yes the trouble in the end it makes you anxious I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin back at me To see me lookin back at you I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin back at me To see me lookin back at you But if you hurt what's mine I'll sure as hell retaliate You can free the world, you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight You can free the world, you can free my mind Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight

About

"Safe from Harm" is a song by British trip hop group Massive Attack. It was released as the third single from their 1991 debut album Blue Lines. The song features vocals by Shara Nelson and Robert Del Naja, and its lyrics deal with themes of domestic violence. The track was the first in which the band collaborated with Nelson, who also sang on "Unfinished Sympathy" and "Lately." The bass line is sampled from a Billy Cobham song while the drums were sampled from "Good Old Music" by Funkadelic. The band stated the Martin Scorsese movie Taxi Driver as being a major influence to the song's lyrics. The movie stars Robert De Niro as a paranoid Vietnam War veteran who is disgusted by the people he drives around the city at night. He becomes fixated on saving a child prostitute played by a young Jodie Foster and kills several people to do so. The deep moral conflict at the heart of the film is resonant in the song. The song was a moderate commercial success, reaching number 25 on the UK Singles Chart.