Seed of Wonder

Jesca Hoop was asked in an interview what this song was about. Her response was that it's obvious if you think about it. I believe that the song is about masturbation as a cure for writer's block.

“Sort through the source searching”, “all I want is to be writing”, and “right away I went writing, humming, singing”, et cetera seem to indicate writer’s block. When she says “my love stood still like a stagnant well”, she means that her art - which is often about the topic of love or sex - remains inside of her, like her vaginal secretions.

The use of the word “well” alludes to the fluidity of her secretions. Phrases like “my river sits in ebb”, “call your flow”, “tapped my virgin spring”, and “wet my river bed” also allude to this fluidity, while “virgin spring” — in addition to the song’s title “seed of wonder” reinforce the sexual and reproductive connotations in the references to water.

Phrases like “tapped spring”, “hammer and ping” and “it burrowed in” refer to penetration. “That tapped spring came running like a river, my song it came” — which is followed by moaning — strengthens the case that “my song”, “my love”, and feminine ejaculate are metaphors for one another. “Come” in “a wish has finally come” is no less than a reference to orgasm, as in “cum”.

“Wet my river bed, pearls strung upon silk thread”: with “river bed”, she is referring to the fact that her bed has become moistened with feminine secretions. “Silk thread” is the composition of said bed, with the “pearls strung upon” the bed being comprised of beads of feminine moisture.

Once, my love stood still like a stagnant well for so long, You could hear the song of spiders, strumming fibers, Calling her to the web My river sits in ebb The little ones lean over, laughin' echoes Bounce down the dark until it hits the floor Singin' come on baby, come on child, call your flow Like a seed of wonder, faith of mustard Ah yeah, wo-oh yeah

All is dark All of the light is vanished, it is gone Like something large Hovering high has covered up the sun And something quiets the silken ringing Something breaks the strum A wish has finally come

Oh no, oh no Oh, all I want is to be writin', to be writin' All I want is to be writin' and it goes something like

Once, that wish did land Like a star in my hand It burned and it burned and it burrowed in Sort through the source searching Hammer and ping And tapped my virgin spring And prime the vein with milk of mother And wet my river bed Pearls strung upon silk thread The starry one Beams of light He's working under Diggin' through the dark gatherin' particles Findin' everything you ever wished for in your soul Like a seed of wonder, faith of mustard Ah yeah, wo-oh yeah, Oh ohh no, oh no Oh no, no no

Finally that tapped spring come runnin' like a river My song, it came Ahhh eeeyeah, ohh nooo, oh I Right away I went writin', I went writin' Right away I was hummin' I was hummin' Right away I was singin' I was singin' Right away I was lovin' And it goes something like

Light I haven't always been under such a blue Only you have seen such stormin' in my life

Ah, haa-uh Haah, haa-uh

All I want is to be writin', to be writin' All I want is to be writin' and it goes something like

(Repeat song from beginning)