Your mouth floats above my bed at night
My own private moon
[Verse 1: ROSALÍA & Björk]
Just because the mind can make up whatever it wants
Does it mean that it'll never come true?
Won't ever happen (Just because she can)
Please, could I change that?
[Chorus: Björk & ROSALÍA, Björk]
Is that the right thing to do?
Oh, I just don't know
I just don't know
Is that the right thing to do?
Oh, I just don't know
I just don't know
[Verse 2: Björk & ROSALÍA]
Let me introduce one to the other
The dream and the real, get them acquainted
Just because she can
Introduce
Just because she can
A mouth to a mouth
Is that the right thing to do?
Oh, I just don't know
I just don't know
Is that the right thing to do?
Oh, I j-just don't know
I just don't know
[Bridge: Björk, ROSALÍA, Björk & ROSALÍA]
Can I just sneak up from behind
To the back of his head?
Then I lift up his hair
And nibble ever so lightly
That's where the hair starts
Just because she can
Now please, can I kiss him?
(Just because she can)
Yo quiero besarle
(Just because she can)
Come on, please, can I kiss him?
(Just because she can)
I just don't know, oh
[Outro: Björk, Björk & ROSALÍA]
Just because she can (Can)
There's a line there, I can't cross it (Ooh)
Just because she can
There's a line there, I can't cross it (Come)
Just because she can
There's a line there, I can't cross it
Just because she can (Oh, it must come)
There's a line there, I can't cross it
There's a line there, I can't cross it (Oh, just)
There's a line there, I can't cross it (Oh)
There's a line there, I can't cross it (Come)
There's a line there, I can't cross it
About
“Oral” is a collaborative song by Icelandic singer-songwriter and producer Björk and Spanish singer-songwriter and producer Rosalía. Originally created by Björk 25 years ago, between her 1997 album Homogenic and 2001’s Vespertine, in a similar Reggaeton style, the song underwent a reworking, adding Rosalía’s vocals and additional production by Sega Bodega. The artists' collective effort is geared towards fundraising to support a legal case against the fish farms, brought forth by residents of the town of Seyðisfjörður on the eastern side of Iceland.
Q&A
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In a interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Björk commented on the meaning of the lyrics:
It’s totally that moment when you’ve met someone, and you don’t know if it’s friendship or something more. So you become, I guess, aroused. And you become very aware of your lips. That’s maybe why I called the song “Oral.” You don’t know what the consequences are if you act. Sometimes fantasy can be amazing, and that’s enough; you don’t have to also do things. […] And even though I obviously didn’t write this song for salmons, I like the fact that it’s a happy song.
