Video hit Portishead

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