Crying

Oh man, when I listened to this song first I thought she was saying "Krankus I need you" because her english is so worbled... great song though, and I think riko is right on the spot.

I think this song is about being around so many people, but never really connecting with any of them.

yep, that pretty much says it. being surrounded with people and yet completely alone, maybe feeling like an outsider.

I feel that this is feeling lonely even thou no ones around you. You want that Mr or Mrs right to come sweep you away, but they'r not in the croud, and in fact, you find they don't exist. So what do you do? CRY! >_<;

Great song, one of my first bjork ones. I remember buying the album, listening to this track and thinking "WTF" until it grew on me and i saw it's genius.

Perhaps being insecure about telling someone that you care about them, while being buisy doing other things.

Perhaps being insecure about telling someone that you care about them, while being buisy doing other things.

One of her better songs, sung with the trademark Bjork intensity, but a bit laid-back vocally. Still one of her masterpieces along with Bachelorette and Venus As A Boy. This song may be, as previously agreed upon, about being lonely in a crowd, but I think that it can be read on a more generalized basis as well... simply the human condition in which you need the positive opinions of others to validate your own self-worth. Lines like "there's no one here and people everywhere" might mean that even though physically there are tons of people around, you not only hide your true self from them or put on an act to impress them... they're almost all always doing the same... so you never ever really get to know anybody, just the character they want you to see them as. The line "I move carefully through the crown/everyone's so vulnerable and I'm as well" really makes that clear. Everybody is afraid of screwing up, but nobody really cares if you do because they're just as afraid they will.

There's people everywhere, but the speaker can't connect with anyone. She desires this unattainable human contact because she misses her lover.

I think this song is about being sourrended by a lot of people but don't care about them because she only cares and misses about THAT persono..