Victimhood Lyrics
Victimhood
I heed the call
To step out of
Victimhood
Has a saintly glow
Holier than thou
It erased my shadow (Shadow)
[Chorus]
Only bird's-eye view
Can help me transcend
This archetype
[Verse 2]
Oh, who am I
That this has happened to?
Victimhood
Rejection, it left a void
That is never satisfied
Sunk into victimhood
Felt the world owed me love
[Chorus]
Only bird's-eye view
Can help me transgress
Out of this hole
Who am I
That this has happened to?
To transgress us beyond our tragedy
Took one for the team
I sacrificed myself to save us
I rejected myself
Sacrificed myself
I felt sorry for myself
To transgress us out of this tragedy
I sacrificed myself
Took one for the team
To transgress us (To save us)
Beyond our tragedy (To save us)
I sacrificed myself
[Outro]
Victimhood
Victimhood
I heed a call out
Of victimhood
Out of
Out of
Of victimhood
Here I go now
About
“VIctimhood” is the seventh song on Fossora, and the second longest song in the album after “Ancestress”. Characterized by an eerie and cavernous instrumental resembling a death march in the first half, the song then evolves into a chaotic layering of brass melodies and vocals.
Björk wrote this song when she was studying Jungian victimhood archetypes, and she has stated that this is the final chapter of the divorce saga, started in 2015 with Vulnicura.
She discussed the song in an interview with The Atlantic:
On “Victimhood,” sampled fog horns conjure the murk of someone drowning in self-pity—a quality Björk used to pride herself on lacking. But she recently realized that she does tend to put other people’s needs in front of her own and then feel bad about it. “It’s a matriarch sort of problem,” she said. “You have to just own it and say, ‘Yes, I make this sacrifice.’”
(21 September 2023)
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- 1.Atopos
- 2.Ovule
- 3.Mycelia
- 5.Ancestress
- 7.Victimhood
- 8.Allow
- 9.Fungal City
- 10.Trölla-Gabba
- 11.Freefall
- 12.Fossora