This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Is there a place
Where I can pay respects
For the death of my family?
Show some respect
Between the three of us
There is the mother and the child
Then there is the father and the child
But no man and a woman
No triangle of love
So where do I go to make an offering?
I fall on my knees
Lay my flowers (burn the incense)
Light the candles
So where do I go to make an offering
To mourn our miraculous triangle?
Father, mother, child
Father, mother, child
How will I sing us out of this sorrow?
Build a safe bridge for the child out of this danger
I raise a monument of love
There is a swarm of sound
Around our heads
And we can hear it
And we can get healed by it
It will relieve from the pain
It will make us a part of
This universe of solutions
This place of solutions
This location of solutions
Where I can pay respects
For the death of my family?
Show some respect
Between the three of us
There is the mother and the child
Then there is the father and the child
But no man and a woman
No triangle of love
So where do I go to make an offering?
I fall on my knees
Lay my flowers (burn the incense)
Light the candles
So where do I go to make an offering
To mourn our miraculous triangle?
Father, mother, child
Father, mother, child
How will I sing us out of this sorrow?
Build a safe bridge for the child out of this danger
I raise a monument of love
There is a swarm of sound
Around our heads
And we can hear it
And we can get healed by it
It will relieve from the pain
It will make us a part of
This universe of solutions
This place of solutions
This location of solutions
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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Such a haunting song...
So much loss and sadness. The trinity of the family is broken and Bjork is trying to reconcile the situation but begins to see that she can't fix it, she cannot 'Sing us out of sorrow' like she has always done.
She is suddenly very human, cold and sad.
But then she realises that all she can do is continue to love; her children, her self and her music.
I feel like this song is the turning point on the album where the metaphorical wound of the album begins to heal. It's also the track used on the Moving Album Cover, so it's very possible that it is meant to be the major narrative change of direction on the album.