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that is one strange bridge! and something tells me it's not the translator's error either. thanks for the lyrics. |
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'turtle heart' could refer to the fact that we tend to retreat into our shells when hurt..., like a turtle. And the song is about healing such a hurt person... |
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JivverDicker: your spelling is confusing, i could translate if you name the specific song |
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doesn't bjork spit icelandic in "immature" too? what's she saying there? i prolly looked up all this years ago... this is one of my top 5 bjork songs, easy. |
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vespertine covers a broad range of emotion making the whole movement very 'real' in that real life is never simply ecstatic or great, but the over all experience for me is one of bliss. |
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awwwww cool i love the idea that MUSIC can bring a meeting of the minds =0) |
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hey everyone we are SO IN.....AB will reveal ALL secrets......well maybe not all, but SOME! *rubs hands together and takes NOTES* |
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the translation is 'what is hopping?'....do you know ' madur levendir'? |
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alnuit, i agree with your interpretation again! you're good. obviously these interpretations are still just that, but it's interesting to get to the bottom of some of these lines. the first 2 albums are so much easier to decipher! |
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all this gets me so excited for bjork's next album... oh god! |
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don't forget she TOURS this summer with 'ze pusher of ze square!!!!' =0) |
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Thats true. Debut is awfully simple. Post is harder, but still ok. Homogenic is abstract and surreal beyond words. Vespertine has all but sublimated meaning. With verspertine all yuou have are smoke rings and wisps of ideas. Listening to it is like walking through a cloud. |
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i wish she'd come to minneapolis :( |
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LakeExperience!!! word up. stockhausen's stimmung + crazy beats!! ahahaha. i listened to stimmung just to get an idea on how the new bjork joint will sound. it's bonkers! them german cats is spittin syllables like they some speak-n-spells! |
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i like the cloud, feel no need to crystalize such a beautiful fluid. |
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wha?! tell me about this stimmung! what in the world is stimmung? |
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I wish she would tour India. After all, Verandi was arranged in part by an Indian. Talvin Singh who produced some of her early stuff is Indian. *crosses fingers* |
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jupitah, click onto my page (), go to the bjork lakexperience part, click stimmung! it's a stockhausen piece from the '60s. tripped out! speaking of cloudy vespertine and your avatar (i think), how amazing would a cLOUDDEAD/bjork remix or collabo be?! of all the ideas i had recently about bjork remixes that was my fav one. |
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I know I need to go to bed now.... the new B thing will be out next april the earliest, as I said, there isn't any songs yet. youl'd like 'where is the line' but it's half baked. |
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madur levendir (maður lifandi spelled correctly) = my god ...literal translation is = man alive i can't make out the words in immature after she sings "how extremely lazy of me" ...i don't think it's icelandic, maybe mixture of icelandic and english. in the last part she might be saying "and bÃður eftir love" = and waits for love, but i could be wrong |
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My girlfriend is icelandic and I've asked her for the worst sayings I can say as an exclamation. I can't translate other than 'what is jumpin;' say it, kvet e hoppandi. Youcan work it out? |
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bah! :P the web site is so misleading! but it makes sense. anyway goodnight and thanks for your lyrical interpretations! |
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that line in "immature" makes sense, but surely the rest of it is in icelandic too? otherwise what...? it doesn't sound english to me.. |
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if it's 'what is hopping' then it should be spelled 'hvað er hoppandi' 'hellvidur koool' ...helvÃti kúl = fucking cool / cool as hell |
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wow, can't imagine what that might sound like, but it excites me :) of the many incredible things i would like to happen, clouddead remixing or better yet collaborating with bjork is up there. i'm a sucker for those nerds and i'll forever have a boyish crush on bjork. |
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kvet e hoppandi (wrong spelling) ...lol, it doesn't mean 'what is hopping' hvað à hoppandi = what the hell / what in the name of god |
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there's a big book out with interpretations of all of her songs up through vespertine.. a lot of them from bjork herself.. i think, maybe not.. i'll see if i can find it again.. but anyways.. i've always thought 'an echo, a stain' was sort of a creepy infatuation/love song.. kinda like 'i miss you' but more ominous.. the "sorry you saw that / sorry he did it/ an echo/ a stain" part makes me think of some infidelity possibly? as for "the fountain of blood"... notice in the book let she puts "my love" in parenthesis.. i think she uses blood as a symbol of passion or energy or life.. i remember she said of "its in our hands": "It was nice to do a full-blooded song after doing a whole album that didn't have any blood in it, though that was the point with Vespertine, that it was see-through like a crystal." bjork has an odd lyrical sense.. like a weird combination of naivete and sophistication.. just in interviews, she describes things in awkward ways, though, the fact that her mind operates in such a different way shouldnt be much of a surprise.. |
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doesn't sound english nor icelandic. we have to ask her |
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AB you are RIGHTING ze WRONGS.......ahhahahhah i love that language.....especially when it's being sung! that book sounds mighty interesting wayout! |
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I agree with you....the combination of naivete and sophistication bit especially...like in Isobel. A complex idea tod out as a fairy tale. |
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imagine how good a cLOUDDEAD remix of "an echo, a stain" would be |
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but anyways.. i've always thought 'an echo, a stain' was sort of a creepy infatuation/love song.. kinda like 'i miss you' but more ominous.. the "sorry you saw that / sorry he did it/ an echo/ a stain" part makes me think of some infidelity possibly? or maybe, sorry you saw what i was up to, how creepy/obsessed i am... what depths of depravity i'm capable of.. |
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the literal meaning of hoppandi is hopping/jumping |
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she really does have an odd lyrical sense... which is why the collaborations with wu-tang that she did (but remain unreleased) make so much sense.. it takes people years to figure out some wu-tang lyrics |
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i know exactly what you mean. anyone who's ever really listened to her probably does. but naivete suggests foolishness, not knowing any better. i tend to think she is fully conscious and this quality of her is more innocence than naivete. she's a playful spirit, even in her most 'serious' lyrical moments. she's a poet! tits, clouded on echo a stain, perfect! |
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yeah, 'innocense' is probably a better word.. i just think its interesting how she writes really odd abstract lyrics that make perfect sense and that you can somehow relate to them.. a bit like thom yorke actually, though less morose |
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...and more spiritually uplifting, and ecstatic :) |
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vespertine is mostly sexual, love making and the relationship between two people both music and lyrics cocoon is hard core sex lyrics pagan poetry is preparing for marriage unision is comitment |
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there are other levels of interpretation as well, for most of the songs. for most art actually, whether the artist is conscious of it or not. |
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no.... bjork herself said so i am not interpreting and some songs dont need interpritations just read the lyrics |
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while i agree with you and bjork, i think there were clearly other influences too... |
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if your talking sun im my mouth yes |
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i thought fountain of blood shaped as a girl was a reference to menstruation. i agree that the album is very sexual. many references to ejaculation ("a train of pearls") and the like. He slides inside Half awake, half asleep We faint back Into sleephood When I wake up The second time In his arms Gorgeousness He's still inside me the sexual reference seems pretty obvious here too. "when i wake up the second time" is a reference to multiple orgasms. and: In the sleeping curves of my body Shall enter fingers Of smooth mastery With chasteness of sea-girls Will I complete the mystery Of my flesh Will I complete the mystery Of my flesh My flesh is probably a reference to achieving orgasm by masturbation. |
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of course! cocoon is almost porn ;) kidding, but you get my point.. i just don't think sex is the only thing that inspired the album, even if it is the key influence and overall theme |
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evolume > i'm not the only one! ^^ (who thought 'bachelorette' was a very poetic song about some sexual matter) i'm really wondering what the parts she sing in icelandic (or any other language) mean... they're recurrent in many of their songs btw... something sounding a bit like "angina chtaael" (??)... or "huta! huta!" in headphones (but this one only appears one)... |
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...? : ) |
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