Paroles : Bjork - Biophilia (2011)

Moon




As the lukewarm hands of the gods
Came down and gently picked my adrenalin pearls
Placed them in their mouths and rinsed all the fear out
Nourished them with their saliva

All rested

As if the healthiest pastime
Is being in life-threatening circumstances
And once again be reborn
All birthed and happy (all birthed and happy)
All birthed and happy (all birthed and happy)
All birthed and happy (all birthed and happy)

Best way to start-a-new is to fail miserably
Fail at loving and fail at giving
Fail at creating a flow then realign the whole
And kick into the starthole.

And kick into the starthole
And kick into the starthole

To risk all is the end all and the beginning all
To risk all is the end all and the beginning all


Thunderbolt


Stirring at water's edge,
Cold froth on my twig,
My mind in whirls
Wanders around desire.

May I, can I, or have I too often?
Craving miracles…
May I, can I, or have I too often now?
Craving miracles…
Craving miracles…

No one imagines the light shock I need,
And I'll never know
From who's hands, deeply humble,
Dangerous gifts as such to mine come.

May I, should I, or have I too often?
Craving miracles…
May I, can I, or have I too often?
Craving miracles…
Craving miracles..

My romantic gene is dominant
And it hungers for union,
Universal intimacy,
All embracing.

May I, should I or have I too often
Craved miracles?
May I, can I or have I too often
Craved miracles?
Crave…

Waves irregularly striking,
Wind stern in my face.
Thunderstorm, come,
Scrape those barnacles off me!

May I, may I or should I too often
Crave miracles?
May I or should I or have I too often

All my body parts are one
As lightning hits my spine,
Sparkling
Prime runs through me,
Revive my wish
Inviolable.

May I, can I, or have I too often?
Craving miracles…
May I, can I, should I, or have I too often?
Craving miracles…


Cristalline


Underneath our feet
Crystals grow like plants (listen how they grow)
I'm blinded by the lights (listen how they grow)
In the core of the earth (listen how they grow)

Crystalline, internal nebula
Crystalline, rocks growing slowmo
Crystalline, I conquer claustrophobia
Crystalline, and demand the light

We mimic the openness of the ones we love
Dovetail our generosity, equalize the flow
With our hearts we chisel quartz to reach love

Crystalline, internal nebula
Crystalline, rocks growing slowmo
Crystalline, I conquer claustrophobia
Crystalline, and demand the light

Octagon, polygon, pipes of and organ
Sonic branches, murmuring drone
Crystallizing galaxies, spread out like my fingers

Crystalline, internal nebula
Crystalline, rocks growing slowmo
Crystalline, I conquer claustrophobia
Crystalline, and demand the light

Crystalline, internal nebula
Crystalline, rocks growing slowmo
Crystalline, I conquer claustrophobia
Crystalline, and demand the light

It's the sparkle you become when you conquer anxiety
It's the sparkle you become when you conquer anxiety


Cosmogony

Heaven, heaven’s bodies
Whirl around me, make me wonder

And they say back then our universe
Was an empty sea, until a silver fox
And her cunning mate began to sing
A song that became the world we know

Heaven, heaven’s bodies
Whirl around me, make me wonder

And they say back then our universe
Was a coal black egg until the god inside
Burst out and from its shattered shell
He made what became the world we know

Heaven, heaven’s bodies
Whirl around me, make me wonder

And they say back then our universe
Was an endless land until our ancestors
Woke up and before they went back to sleep
They carved it up into the world we know

Heaven, heaven’s bodies
Whirl around me, make me wonder

And they say back then our universe
Wasn’t even there until a sudden bang
And then there was light, was sound, was matter
And it all became the world we know

Heaven, heaven’s bodies
Whirl around me, dance eternal


Hollow

Hollow, my ancestors have access
Hollow, I'm falling down the abyss
Hollow, looking for some answers

Generations of mothers sailing in
Somehow they all were shipfolks

Hollow, the ground is opening up
Swallows, me up
The trunk of DNA

Trunk of DNA, trunk.

Now come forth
All species
Come forth
Hollow.

Like a bead in necklace
Thread me upon this chain
I'm part of it
The everlasting necklace

Jewels after jewels after jewels after
Jewels after jewels after jewels
Breathe out
I yearn to belong, let me belong, let me belong


Virus

Like a virus needs a body and soft tissue feeds on blood
Someday I'll find you, the urge is here, ohh-ohh
Like a mushroom on a tree trunk as a protein transmutates
I knock on your skin and I am in, ohh-ohh

The perfect match, you and me, I adapt, contagious
You open up, saying welcome

Like a flame that seeks explosives as gun powder needs a war
I feast inside you, my host is you, ohh-ohh

The perfect match, you and I, you fail to resist
My crystalline charm, you do

Like a virus, patient hunter
I'm waiting for you, I'm starving for you, ohh-ohh
My sweet adversary, ohh, my sweet adversary, ahh
My sweet adversary


Sacrifice


 Why can't you give her room?
Respect her spatial needs.
I feel you compress her
Into a small space.

With clairvoyance,
She knew what you needed,
And gave it to you.
Now her desires are repressed;
Arrows in the flesh

When she found your love,
Her nature bowed her head;
She surrendered,
She renounced the world for you,
Now she's poisoned by demands
You cannot answer.

Why this sacrifice?
Now she regrets the whole thing,
A delayed reaction
When she left her craft voluntarily
For your nest, for your love.
Did you understand?

Appreciate,
Build a bridge to her.
Initiate a touch
Before it's too late,
Say the words to her
That will make her shine.
Tell her that you love her

Your generosity will show
In the volume of her glow.


Mutual Core



I shuffle around the tectonic plates in my chest
You know I gave it all try to match our continents
To change seasonal shift to form a mutual core
As fast as your fingernail grows the Atlantic ridge drifts
To counteract distance, you know I gave it all
Can you hear the effort of the magnetic strife?
Shuffling of columns to form a mutual core

This eruption undoes stagnation
You didn't know I had it in me
Withheld your love, an unspent capsule
I didn't know you had it in you
You hid the key to our continuity
I didn't know you had it in you
This eruption undoes stagnation
You didn't know, you didn't know


What you resist persists, nuance makes heat
To counteract distance, I know you gave it all
Offered me harmony if things were done your way
My Eurasian plate subsumed forming a mutual core

This eruption undoes stagnation
You didn't know I had it in me
Withheld your love, an unspent capsule
I didn't know you had it in you
You hid the key to our continuity
I didn't know you had it in you
This eruption undoes stagnation
You didn't know, you didn't know


Solstice


When your eyes
Pause on the ball
That hangs on the third branch from the star
You remember why it is dark and why it gets light again

The earth (like the heart) slopes in its seat
And like that it travels along an eliptical path
Drawn into the darkness

An unpolished pearl in sky-black palm of hand
Flickering sun-flame

And then you remember
That you yourself
You are a light-bearer, a light-bearer
Receiving radiance from others

Flickering sun-flake
Unpolished earth in the palm of hand