I heard a puff, I heard a blow
I felt the ground, I felt the snow
I thought of linen and of lace
I never really saw his face

I heard a grunt, I heard a moan
I felt the sun, I saw the moon
I saw the northern light above
And the eclipse of the sun

I am a breath, I am a wish
I am a rocket and a fish
I felt his measures and his weight
My own body as a scale

I heard a whisper in my ear
”You are not here, you are not here”
I saw the northern light above
And the eclipse of the sun

My feet was hurt and heals were sore
And I wondered why it burned
And I wondered why it burned

Then I had to climb down
I went down to see the sun rise
And then I had to climb back up again
I had to be there to see the sun rise

All the air that you sent to guide me
Had a tone of the elephant gray
We were all there in the morning
We were there and we wanted to stay

So quite a lot of what people had heard was right
Some was wrong




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Kino Lyrics as written by Olof Bjorn Dreijer Karin Elizabeth Dreijer Andersson

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    I agree that it certainly appears to be about "the mysterious feeling of being raped, and karins desire to be a arctic fox", but the mood is far too upbeat and happy and insouciant for it to be about such a horrible topic. Could it simply be about a chance encounter with an arctic fox? Or something else?

    With that said, her attitude towards rape in "Na Na Na" is also quite nonchalant, so maybe it is about rape.

    revilodrawon August 26, 2010   Link

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