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Sonnets/Unrealities XI Lyrics
It may not always be so
And I say
And if your lips
Which I have loved
Should touch another's
And your dear strong fingers clutch
Her heart
As mine in time
Not far away
If on another's face your sweet hair lay
In such a silence
As I know
Or such great writhing words
As, uttering overmuch
Stand helpelessly before the spirit at bay
If this should be
I say
If this should be
You of my heart
Send me a little word
That I may go
Unto her
And take her hands
Saying
Accept all happiness from me
Then I shall turn my face
And hear one bird
Sing terribly afar
In the lost lands
And I say
And if your lips
Which I have loved
Should touch another's
And your dear strong fingers clutch
Her heart
As mine in time
Not far away
In such a silence
As I know
Or such great writhing words
As, uttering overmuch
Stand helpelessly before the spirit at bay
I say
If this should be
You of my heart
Send me a little word
That I may go
Unto her
And take her hands
Saying
And hear one bird
Sing terribly afar
In the lost lands
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this is based on an e.e. cummings poem which is awesome. Kind of sad when you think about it. One is letting go of someone she loves and watches him go to someone else. When I finally figured it out, I started crying because I'm writing a story about that. lol, I'm ok now. :P
Ultimate unselfish love, to let the perfect person be someone else's benediction
i think one of the more underrated songs... i think i will type out the poem for those who don't know it...: god gloats upon Her stunning flesh. Upon the reachings of Her green body among unseene things,things obscene (Whose fingers young
the caving ages curiously con)
-but the lunge of Her hunger softly flung over the gasping shores leaves his smile wan, and his blood stopped hears in the frail anon
the shovings and the lovings of Her tongue.
god Is The Sea. All terrors of his being quake before this its hideous Work most old Whose battening gesture prophecies a freeing
of ghostly chaos in this dangerous night through moaned space god worships God-
where chaste stars writhe captured in brightening fright)
...hope all the spacing turns out right on this post...
which it didnt. but oh well.
Anyone care to explain the song title?
The title is Sonnets/Unrealities Xl because the song is actually a poem by EE Cummings from his Sonnets, and this is number 11. Unrealities being things that have not happened, more like things that may happen. A sort of meditation on "what if she leaves me?". A very beautiful poem, and Bjork made it more so by turning it into a song.
The speaker imagines a future in which her lover is with another woman, one in which she would go up to that woman and wish her complete happiness in that relationship. Afterward, the speaker would wander off in sorrow.