Portishead - Glory Box
Glory Box is a single by English trip hop group Portishead, released in 1995. The title song samples "Ike's Rap II" by Isaac Hayes (as does Tricky's "Hell Is Around The Corner" from Maxinquaye, released the same year). The song is a love song, featuring the frequent refrain, "I just want to be a woman."
The music video is set in the 1950s, featuring lead singer Beth Gibbons as a jazz singer at a club while various office workers watch her perform. Sexual tension begins to rise between certain characters, as eventually, all of the workers, as separate couples, attend the club where Beth is performing. Apart from the band members, the entire cast of the video appear in drag.
The song can be heard in several films, such as Stealing Beauty (1996), When the Cat's Away (1996),The Craft (1996), B. Monkey (1998), Tout pour plaire (2005), Lord of War (2005), and Antichrist (2009).
The song has also been used several TV series episodes, such as Rescue Me (episode #61), and Ringer (episode #3).
In France, the song featured in early 2000s in a TV advert for Candia milk.
It was also used in a Levi's Jeans commercial.
The 1998 cover by John Martyn was used in the film Colombiana (2011).
The lyrics:
I'm so tired of playing
Playin' with this bow and arrow
I gonna give my heart away
Leave it to the other girls to play
For I've been a temptress too long
Just give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just wanna be a woman
From this time unchained
We're all lookin' at a different picture
Through this new frame of mind
A thousand flowers could bloom
Move over and give us some room, yea
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just wanna be a woman
So don't you stop, being a man
Just take a little look
From our side when you can
Show a little tenderness
No matter if you cry
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just wanna be a woman
'Cause it's all I wanna be is all a woman, yea
For this is the beginning of forever and ever
Its time to move over
So tired of playing
So tired of playing
Playin' with this bow and arrow
I gonna give my heart away
Leave it to the other girls, to play
For I've been a temptress too long
Just give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be
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