Wanderlust

yeah the lyrics are wrong. they must be like what precipitate says..

i love this song so much! mostly i think the song is about thinking for yourself for your own personal pleasure...like a person's the strong desire to experince something new, and being tired of adhering cultural patterns/norms. also i notice (whether or not it was intentional) that there is the play on the wanderlust to wonderless, which could be alluding to a living in a unadmirable world where noone thinks for themselves... as for the pattern, i thinks its about societal norms, that we all are so used to adhering to. btw, the mathew herbert remix is great as well.

I love this song, especially Ratatat's remix of it...

I have not listened to a ton of Bjork but it is by far the best song I've heard, or understood its meaning.

It is about God, life, and existence. You can hear existentialist dialogue in the verses, and Niezche's philosophy of life and embrace of nature..

Her discomfort results from the God preached and believed in by the masses.

While she herself denounces God, she embraces life, and the world around us, and the human condition of existence. She finds peace only in her own capacity to assert her own individuality in the face of her environment, in other word's she find's comfort only in Tillich's God Above God.

She's quite the religious one..

Bjork claimed herself that the song is about "the state of looking for something and almost knowing you'll never find it". Makes sense. The word "wanderlust" actually refers to someone who has a constant desire to travel or "wander".

she also added the song makes fun of her lust for something new. lol. typical Bjork ;)

Does anyone know if the beeping at the end of the song is Morse Code? If any of you know please do tell. Thank you! :D

so amazing.

p.s. I think the one she sang on snl is slightly different from what the album version will be, maybe because the first few lines are a bit too controversial for that show? anyways, I've found these lyrics on a few sites:

I am leaving this harbour giving urban a farewell it's habitants seem to keen on god i cannot stomach their rights and wrong i have lost my origin and i don't want to find it again rather sailing into nature's laws and be held by ocean's paws

Wanderlast! relentlessly craving wanderlust peel off the layers until you get to the core did i imaginme it would be like this was it something like this i wished for or will i want more

lust for comfort suffocates the soul this relentless restleness liberates me i feel at home whenever the uknown surrounds me i receve it's embrace aboard my floating house

wanderlust! relentlessy craving wanderlust peel of the layers until you get to the core did i imagine it would be like this was it something like this i wished for or will i want more

Wanderlust from island to island wanderlust united in movement wonderful i enjoy it with you wanderlust!

can you spot a pattern?

relentlessy restless restless relentlessy restless relentlessy restless relentlessy

so great

i submitted the real lyrics hopefully they will change soon

lyrics fixed! I think in a way it is about Björk retiring, but then it a very sexual song