Monday, July 06, 2009

Björk


I wonder if Björk as a child had a relationship with a grown man. A few of her lyrics hint at it, for example these two songs from the Sugarcubes time. (Both good songs by the way. Videos: Birthday and Deus.)

Birthday
She Lives In This House Over There
Has Her World Outside It
Scrapples In The Earth With Her Fingers And Her Mouth
She's Five Years Old

Thread Worms On A String
Keeps Spiders In Her Pocket
Collects Fly Wings In A Jar
Scrubs Horse Flies
And Pinches Them On A Line
Ohhh...

She Has One Friend, He Lives Next Door
They're Listenening To The Weather
He Knows How Many Freckles She's Got
She Scratches His Beard

She's Painting Huge Books
And Glues Them Together
They Saw A Big Raven
It Glided Down The Sky
She Touched It
Ohh...

Today Is A Birthday
They're Smoking Cigars
He's Got A Chain Of Flowers
And Sows A Bird In Her Knickers
Ohhh...

They're Smoking Cigars
They Lie In The Bathtub
A Chain Of ... Flowers

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Deus
(female voice)
Deus Does Not Exit.
But If He Does, He Lives In The Sky Above Me,
In The Fattest Largest Cloud Up There.
He's Whiter Than White And Cleaner Then Clean.
He Wants To Reach Me.

Deus Does Not Exist.
But If He Does I Always Notice Him.
Getting Ready In His Airy Room.
He's Picking His Gloves So Gently Off.
He Wants To Touch Me.

I'm Walking Humbly Down A Tiny Street
Pulling My Collar It Gets Bigger, Woooh

(male voice)
I Once Met Him,
It Really Surprised Me,
He Put Me In A Bath Tub,
Made Me Squeeky Clean,
Really Clean.

(female voice)
To Create A Universe
You Must Taste
The Forbidden Fruit.

(male voice)
He Said Hi. I Said Hi,
I Was Still Clean.

(female voice)
Deus Does Not Exist,
But If He Does He'd Want To Get Down From That Cloud,
First Marzipan Fingers Then Marble Hands,
More Silent Than Silence And Slower Than Slow,
Diving Towards Me.

My Collar Is Huge Room For Two Hands,
They Start At The Chest And Move Slowly Down.

(male voice)
I Thought I Had Seen Everything,
He Wasn't White And Fluffy,
He Just Had Side Burns,
He Just Had Side Burns,
And A Quiff,
He Said Hi.
I Said Hi. I Was Still Clean,
I Was Squeeky Clean.
I Was Surprised.
Just As You Would Be.

(male voice & female voice)
Deus, Deus, Deus, Deus
(female voice)
He Does Not Exist

3 comments:

Chris S. said...

I don't know about extracting autobiographical details from songs or any artwork. I'd like to think she has the creativity to make up whatever she likes to make her songs more interesting. But, who knows. None of us do, unless she were to say so, and that would kind of take away from the mystery of the art itself. I've always liked her music though and her weird sensibility. Enjoyed the videos. Thanks.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

You're right of course.

Pascal [P-04referent] said...

Doesn't sound like anything that traumatized her, at any rate.
Therefore, it doesn't really matter. "No crime was committed". :-)