My Weakness Lyrics
About
“My Weakness” is the eighteenth and last track of American musician Moby’s studio album Play, released on May 17, 1999 through V2 Records.
Together with “Guitar, Flute & String”, it’s the only track that has no drum patterns included: moreover, it couldn’t even be considered as a pure instrumental, as it contains a manipulated and looped vocal sample of a Kanak choir (read the relative and detailed annotation to learn more about it).
This last one, combinated with the powerful, almost cinematographic, and evocative strings, makes the song a moving work of art that is able to provide the listener with so many different feelings.
Finally, the fans of the series X-Files will recognize this song immediately, as well as the previous one on the album…
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
I never expected anyone to ever listen to this song. It was tagged on to the end because I love music that’s equal parts disconcerting and beautiful — you can get caught up in a sense of beauty, but also it’s unsettling. It’s why I like a lot of late 19th Century classical music like Debussy’s “Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune”, I know it’s beautiful but it also makes me feel uncomfortable. “My Weakness” is such a strange piece of music. There’s no drums and it’s this odd African [sic] choir loop — I sampled it 12 years ago, I don’t remember what it’s from. What was most gratifying for me when Play became successful was when people liked the more obscure songs. Gillian Anderson used “The Sky Is Broken” in an X-Files. I was so flattered that someone had listened to the whole record.
- 1.Honey
- 2.Find My Baby
- 3.Porcelain
- 5.South Side
- 6.Rushing
- 7.Bodyrock
- 9.Machete
- 10.7
- 11.Run On
- 12.Down Slow
- 14.Everloving
- 15.Inside
- 18.My Weakness
- 19.Flower
- 20.Sunday
- 21.Memory Gospel
- 22.Whispering Wind
- 23.Summer
- 24.Spirit
- 25.Flying Foxes
- 26.Sunspot
- 28.Running
- 30.Micronesia
- 31.Arp
- 34.Princess