 Genius Lyrics
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Björk – Hunter
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Björk opens up Homogenic (1997) emphasizing the pressures she feels as the biggest name to come out of Iceland. She seeks to establish herself now as the “Hunter”, which is
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Björk – Jóga
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“Jóga” is track #2 on Björk’s third solo album Homogenic. It is also the first and lead single from that record
The song is a dedication to Björk’s close friend Jóhanna “Jóga
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Björk – Moon
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“Moon” is track #1 on Björk’s seventh album Biophilia. It contains different musical cycles that repeat throughout the song. The song was released on iTunes as a solo promo-single
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Björk – Army of Me
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“Army of Me” was released on April 21, 1995 as the lead single from Björk’s second full-length Post (1995). The song was written and produced by Björk and Graham Massey, who also
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Björk – Human Behaviour
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“Human Behaviour” was Bjork’s debut single as a solo artist after the disbanding of The Sugarcubes. Its music is heavily based on Ray Brown Orchestra’s 1970 song “Go Down Dying
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Björk – Stonemilker
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“Stonemilker” is one of the two tracks on Vulnicura solely written, composed and produced by Björk, the other being “Quicksand”.
In the album booklet, the sub-title for this song
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Björk – Hidden Place
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“Hidden Place” is a song by Icelandic recording artist Björk, taken from her fifth album, Vespertine. It was written and produced by Björk.
“Hidden Place” was released as a lead
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Björk – Pagan Poetry
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“Pagan Poetry” was the second single from singer Björk’s album Vespertine. The single peaked at number 38 in the UK and number 12 in Canada. It was written and produced by Björk
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Björk – Family
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In the album booklet, the sub-title for this song is “6 months after”, signifying that this song was written 6 months after the breakup of the relationship between Björk and
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Björk – Alarm Call
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“Alarm Call” is a song recorded by Björk for her 1997 album Homogenic. The song was released as the fourth single from the album, peaking at #33 in the United Kingdom. A sped-up
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Björk – I Miss You
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I Miss You is the ninth track and sixth and final single off of Bjork’s 1995 album, Post.
The lyrics describe Björk already knowing who her perfect lover will be, even though she
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Björk – Virus
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“Virus” is track #7 on Björk’s album Biophilia.
In this song, Björk talks about a parasitic relationship, in which she is the parasite and her lover is the host.
Knowing Björk
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Björk – Utopia
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The title track of the album is about her imagined dream-world, her “Utopia”. There she’s connected to nature. The birds create the soundscape of this world as a sort of natural
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Björk – Undo
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“Undo” is the fourth song on Björk’s fourth studio album Vespertine. It was written in a two-week session with Thomas Knak in January 2001 in Reykjavík, Iceland. Björk recorded her
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Björk – It's Oh So Quiet
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“It’s Oh So Quiet” features on Björk’s third studio album, Post, and was released as the album’s third single. It is a cover of Betty Hutton’s 1951 song of the same title (which
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Björk – Notget
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In the album booklet, the sub-title for this song is “11 months after”, signifying that this song is about the events dating 11 months after the break up of the relationship
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Björk – Black Lake
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In the album booklet, the sub-title for this song is “2 months after”, signifying that this song was written 2 months after the breakup of the relationship between Björk and
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Björk – Quicksand
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The oldest song on Vulnicura, according to New York Times article The Peculiar Genius of Björk, this song is about her mother. Björk wrote “Quicksand” in 2011 after her mother
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Björk – Earth Intruders
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“Earth Intruders” is the first single released from Björk’s album Volta. Its lyrics have connection with a dream Björk had on a cross-Atlantic flight, after seeing the damage made
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Björk – Cocoon
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The third single from Vespertine, “Cocoon” is a sweet and somber synth tune with skittering, almost ASMR-like microbeats celebrating love and intimacy, specifically to her then-
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Björk – Big Time Sensuality
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“Big Time Sensuality” was the fourth single from Björk’s 1993 album Debut. Co-written by Björk and producer Nellee Hooper, the single release was actually a version remixed by
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Björk – Hollow
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“Hollow” is track #6 on Biophilia.
Björk collaborated with biomedical animator Drew Berry for the music video, which explores the inside of the singer’s body. Berry explained:
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Björk – Lionsong
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In the album booklet, the sub-title for this song is “5 months before”, referring to when this song was written in relation to Björk and Matthew Barney’s breakup.
The music video
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Björk (Ft. Kasimyn) – Atopos
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“Atopos” is the lead single from Björk’s 10th album Fossora. The title comes from the Greek word “ἄτοπος” meaning “unusual” or “out of place”, relating to the song’s themes of
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Björk – The Modern Things
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[Verse 1] / All the modern things / Like cars and such / Have always existed / They've just been waiting in a mountain / For the right moment / And listening to the irritating
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Björk – Oceania
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“Oceania” is a song by Icelandic singer Björk, released as a promo from her 2004 Medúlla album. The track is composed purely of human vocals and features a London choir and Leeds-
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Björk – Enjoy
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[Verse 1] / I wish I want to stay here / I wish this be enough / I wish I only love you / I wish simplicity / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Look at the speed out there / It magnetizes me to it
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Björk – Headphones
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Post’s closing track, the experimental “Headphones”, was written and produced by Björk in collaboration with trip-hop pioneer Tricky; the two were romantically involved around that
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Björk (Ft. Sindri Eldon) – Ancestress
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“Ancestress” is the longest track on Fossora which, alongside “Sorrowful Soil”, is dedicated to Björk’s late mother, the environmental activist Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, who passed
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Björk – Innocence
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This is another one of the songs Timbaland co-writes in Volta. “Innocence” speaks of uninhibited youth and how it becomes more thrilling when you become older and more afraid.
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Björk – Unravel
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“Unravel” is track #3 on Björk’s third solo album Homogenic.
Thom Yorke of Radiohead has stated this is his favourite song of all time and has even recorded a cover of it.
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Björk – Immature
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“Immature”, the seventh track on Homogenic, sees Björk being more self-reflective. It is believed to be written about mistakes in past relationships, shortly after the breakup with
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Björk – Possibly Maybe
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Nellee Hooper and Marius de Vries are responsible for setting up a nostalgic and dreamy atmosphere around this memory of lost love, which became the fifth single taken from Post
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Björk – Cosmogony
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Unlike the other songs in Biophilia, which discuss natural phenomenons, “Cosmogony” is focused on various creation myths. Each verse is about a different myth: Miwok Native
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