Björk – Pneumonia

General CommentYeah, she did write it after seeing Pan's Labyrinth, but she also said the title is "Pneumonia" because she had pnuemonia for awhile and the lyrics of the song reflect the sickness and how it seems to suck the life force out of a person. To me, this song symbolizes courage, being brave enough to face the world instead of running away from it into a fantasy world like the girl from Pan's Labyrinth. Sometimes, the world is an ugly place, but we all have to be able to face up to it and live in it despite the horrors. Also, it's urging us to speak out and voice ourselves instead of hiding our feelings and being willing victims. It's basically saying to LIVE.

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  @zarathustra gnosis

General CommentBjörk questioning her own philosophy of shutting herself away from people (in place since the letter bomb incident), wondering how much you miss by "shutting yourself up", even as she contemplates doing it even more.

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  @Iantuition

General CommentAMAZING!!!

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  @Nitrofurantoina

General CommentBjörk said this is about Pan's Labrynth
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  @major key

General Commentlove this - but what is it about?

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  @lboogy

General Commentsorry, but i have to say it again, beautiful!

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  @lboogy

General CommentShe wrote it after seeing "Pan's Labrynth"

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  @angelicmobster8

General CommentI've had my moments of misanthropy and hopeless. This song speaks of this.

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  @sheela_l

General CommentI cannot even begin to comment on this song. I suppose I'll start with the beautiful and subtle musical crafting of it's form. Without using much more than rain sounds and a structurally repetitive accompaniment, she uses only her voice and chordal tension to produce the ebbs and flows of this song.

There seems to be no end to the topics that the lyrics cover. Regret, love, survival, depression, freedom...It speaks so well about life that I could write an essay on it. But it's all about forgetting about the sadness that isn't yours and living your life in such a way that regret cannot touch it, taking every chance and speaking every belief you have, even when it becomes so bad that you can't even stand the sight of people. The lyrics are actually not lengthy, but they speak so much in every line that this has become my favorite bjork song; maybe my favorite song of all time.

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  @Karma policeman

General Commentamazing

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  @purplered_haze