DJ Shadow - Scale It Back Lyrics

This should've been a worldwide hit. This is the type of music we need mainstream.

In a category of its own !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE DAY OF THE BOSS

Supremacy is Relative

where is your 'Video Music Awards' now?!‽ …and it's one take?

Lol, the pet monkey got startled by the cake top falling!

Esto es el mejor!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7IA9Vq8jmA

My heart beats stronger when I hear it !

Great...but NOTHING beats the Silkie remix.......

tame impressions ...

anyone actually scaled it back? like slowed it down?

beautiful

peace and love

how is this not worth of a grammy nomination

This song cures my depression.

Uncle Got had a boat, where we're 45, these 7 electro's, in which we're 25, of these 7 parts in it.

This video is pure gold.

I swear I saw blue light
My feet followed it outside
And I thought I heard someone say
Fly far away
And when you reach up the sky is there

This clueless weather know
We swing the waves, and let it go
Until I heard someone say
Over the rise and beyond
Oh, where you’re reach and knocked over stars

Like light I came from pocket finesse
Every moment I see with eye closed
Take me to places where we can start
Like light I came from pocket finesse, every

Nothing can steal this treasure from us, babe
I’m still in luck– now
Fighting the sounds

Take chances and come closer to me babe
I’m fallin’ out – now

yes it is, 420

Reminds me of astral projection....

im here from teebee

JUST DAMN...

I hate when my humming bird gets eaten by a giant snake who plays a tamborine which launches a parrot who gets a medallion from a sofa where there's a pterodactyl who pushes a shopping cart into an old man who's fighting a street fighter who's pet monkey runs over to a gargoyle which is waving a rolling pin at a pop singer who opens a freezer to reveal a pocket watch for an italian with a viking who does a dance for an eagle owl while my brother uses a staff to knock a crystal ball over to the man in the iron mask who's eating a cake.

This video is a true work of art.

TIMELESS

The part where the 50s gangster shows the clock to the Asian viking and he starts breakdancing for the owl totally makes sense to me.

1:10 is that a morrisons trolley

Is that Erin Richards playing the pop singer?

Yeah it's low budget, but anyone notice it was all one shot and original.

People say to listen to this song on drugs, I'm sure the creators did some serious drugs making this video

This was played on @BBC6MUSIC when it was released. Loved it then, still love it.

Opinions on the lyrics meaning?

Is that Erin Richards from Gotham playing the pop singer? @2:07

Perfect

It's such a good pairing, little dragon and Dj shadow have produced some of the most interesting music over the last 10 years

God I love her voice.

MY FAVOURITE MOMENT IS AFTER THE WATCH, 2:28 THE DANCE WITH THAT PART OF THE SONG

BLUE GIRL WAS VERY SERIOUS IN THE ENTIRE VIDEO BUT IN 4:18 SHE SMILE!!!, I LOVE THAT!! (also the viking)

There are few aproaching the epic mastery in turntablisimness

yukimi Nagano has a beautiful voice.

"...which plays a tambaween..."

The video is a dream in which, when you wake up, you can only remember about 4-5 still frames from it. Sometimes that's all you ever remember, sometimes details come back randomly for days, months, even years afterward.

So true

actually the video is a story that the man in the beggining created in order to memorize a pack of cards. it's called Mnemonics

Is that Barbara Kean from Gotham coming down the stairs?

💖💕💖💕

So many Little Dragon collabs- someone should make a mix

I flipped this track into something more downtempo and jazzy sounding if anybody likes that stuff :)

https://soundcloud.com/chaotixedm/treasure

Chaotix McKay The beat is so dope it makes me want to break. My personal opinion is that it would be better with some sporadic vocal samples instead of the whole song.

Nice dude

is this title telling me to turn it down like really?

So sad that this is the first time I've heard this song! I've been in love with little dragon since day one ❤️

ooh i love thisss

after beyond: ♥

This song is so damn good... One of my most played songs in my iPod...

can't believe no one's posted the lyrics. I want to like this, but I'm on the fence till I can see the lyrics

I swear I saw blue light
My feet followed it outside
And I thought I heard someone say
Fly far away
And when you reach up the sky is there

This clueless weather know
We swing the waves, and let it go
Until I heard someone say
Over the rise and beyond
Oh, where you’re reach and knocked over stars

Like light I came from pocket finesse
Every moment I see with eye closed
Take me to places where we can start
Like light I came from pocket finesse, every

Nothing can steal this treasure from us, babe
I’m still in luck– now
Fighting the sounds

Take chances and come closer to me babe
I’m fallin’ out – now

+Chet Black thanks so much. you're reply actually brought me back to this video and on second listen I now can see just how good it is; amazing, in fact! peace

Esta cancion sin lugar a dudas me recuerda una epoca hermosa de mi vida

OMG I was on set to this music video!! It was filmed in Cardiff in an old store it was part of my work experience!! I also met the lady who came down the escalator! I've been wondering who the DJ was and I finally found him!!!! Nice song 😁

Listen to thinnen remix

thanks for a great song, simple pure and true

Nice video length...

WTF Man!!

Ugh this song is so fucking beautiful

Beautiful voice yakumi great collaberation

Thank you Philly

Super duuuuper,

Its nice to listen to something other than the shit that's on mainstream radio.

It's great to listen to this after I Gotta Rokk...

BBC6 is mainstream radio, they have a festival. There is more music than ever!

Mainstream radio is trash but there's much to be found underground

Awesome. I loved it immediately!

how do people not like the video, this video is fuckin awesome

it's my favorite music video ever

That was awesome. I remember watching a documentary about that guy with incredible memory.

cristo.

Shadow is an under rated talent .....

Brilliant song but an absolutely appalling video. What a waste of an opportunity by the director. How on earth could DJ Shadow have approved this???

It takes a fair amount of directing skill to plan and shoot an unedited single run like this.

those 80 ppl need to realize that they don't know music.

shadows always #1

I need see no more things, I have now seen it all. Love it xx

Little dragon&DjShadow insieme <3

I know you watched this shit Mehashi. And you liked it.

Stanton Moore on drums

This video reminds me of Birdman: Virtue Of Ignorance especially when I saw that owl @ 2:50. That was like a confirmation, kind of. The ending was perfect to top it all off with the cake about to rip completely.

this vid is a lil creepy lol

Excellent song, horrible video.

omg! i like this girls voice..

phil uk That ain’t no girl. THAT’S A WOMAN!

nothing like the original :D

Beautiful

Listen to this when coming down from acid

+Alex Torres Shi caiñal lo sabesh

+Alex Torres
Listen to it when you have a head full of freshly vaped indica that has already loosened the screws in your head.
This tune lifts it off and gently guides it through the cannabis fluffy little clouds .
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...... sweat and warm !

Awesome track with beautiful vocals well worth a place in any music collection! PS if you read this and do not know about the remix comp which inspired some amazing tracks as well? You do now! thank you DJ shadow.

great song!!

my favorite song/video.  a shame it isnt more popular

Definitely isn't a shame, if the song was more popular then it would be played everywhere and it would lose its uniqueness.

Thanks Tommy. Always will think of you when I hear this. 😃❤️

A mi también me parece increíble este tema...

Amazing song stupid video!

ITS ACTUALLY NOT STUPID IF YOU KNOW THE STORY

Was this song in a movie or something? So familiar....

is this a perfect song?

One of them, at least

I think we all know it is

yes, si

it's exactly 4:20... an editor had a laugh... ...and it's one take...

Buena cancion buena voz de yukimi

Buena cancion buena voz de yukimi

Greatness ...

Yukimi Nagano has such a beautiful voice. I'm so glad I found this song with her.

Love the song and the video! Can't get enough of it

Wasnt sure at first for a shadow track, but im hooked now, nice and mellow.

Wasnt sure at first for a shadow track, but im hooked now, nice and mellow.

check out the Thinnen remix- amazing

Nice song. Terrible video. First, the lighting was so bad i could barely make anything out. 2nd, why black puppeteers aginst a white background? 3rd, this kind of utterly random Rube Goldberg thing has been SO done to death.

I think the video was made specifically so that you wouldn't understand it.

Didnt you listen in the beginning? 

Unfortunately, there are haters everywhere...

That's made me laugh,what a good reply.

@john ebags I've gotta agree with the guy. They could've found a much better Chun Li cosplayer! I have a friend that could've killed that part and brought her own costume as well!

THIS is how you do a music video.