Third

The album starts with a spoken-word Portuguese introduction. It was inspired by a Wiccan theory about the number three.
Translated to English: «Be aware to the rule of thirds. What you give will return to you. You have to learn this lesson. You only receive what you deserve» (Source: Discogs)

Adrian Utley explained on soundonsound.com:
“[Silence] had to go first because it has the Portuguese introduction about the number three. Geoff had a sample of a voice from a record, talking Portuguese, introducing a band. It kind of glued the track together and started it, and we liked it. Geoff discovered something about the Wiccan theory of three — do three good things and three good things will come back to you, related to the idea of bad luck coming in threes (without getting deeply into it) — so we wrote a sort of small manifesto, and got this Portuguese guy from Bristol to translate it, and recreated the sample, but with him speaking different words.”