"Basically, the Olympics people asked me to do a kind of 'Ebony and Ivory' or 'We Are the World' type song. Those are smashing tunes and all that, but I thought, 'Maybe there's another angle to this.' ...the song is all about how the ocean doesn't see boundaries between countries and thinks everyone is the same."
From bjork.com:
"Basically, the Olympics people asked me to do a kind of 'Ebony and Ivory' or 'We Are the World' type song. Those are smashing tunes and all that, but I thought, 'Maybe there's another angle to this.' ...the song is all about how the ocean doesn't see boundaries between countries and thinks everyone is the same."