I remember listening to this song on my MP3 player in about 1999 at Southampton Central train station (that's in the south of England). I was at university there, and I was waiting on the platform for my train to come home.
I'd been fixated on this girl, puppy love type stuff, but it mean's a lot when you're 18, and this was the end of another semester where I hadn't had the nerve to tell her how much I liked her, and I was feeling lowdown and miserable, in that glorious way you do when you're eighteen. This song came on at the end of the album, and it wasn't the first time I'd heard it, but it was the first time I properly listened to the lyrics, and it was as if Bjork was sitting inside my head, singing directly to me. I started to cry. 'You'll be given love, you'll be taken care of'. 'Maybe not from the sources
You have poured yours
Maybe not from the directions
You are staring at.
It meant so much to my situation, and made me feel so much better, to just 'twist your head around' (I always thought it was 'trust') - 'it's all around you,
A beautiful song, that's my little story about it. I never did receive love from the girl I was staring at, but ten years later I'm married to the love of my life, and with three gorgeous kids, so I guess ol' Bjork was right!
Stunningly beautiful song. And crazily sexual. I don't need to state my opinion of what it means, because that has already been covered, but I can really imagine making love to this song (as opposed to "having sex"). Hot. But with a definite tinge of sadness.
Stunningly beautiful song. And crazily sexual. I don't need to state my opinion of what it means, because that has already been covered, but I can really imagine making love to this song (as opposed to "having sex"). Hot. But with a definite tinge of sadness.
I remember listening to this song on my MP3 player in about 1999 at Southampton Central train station (that's in the south of England). I was at university there, and I was waiting on the platform for my train to come home.
I'd been fixated on this girl, puppy love type stuff, but it mean's a lot when you're 18, and this was the end of another semester where I hadn't had the nerve to tell her how much I liked her, and I was feeling lowdown and miserable, in that glorious way you do when you're eighteen. This song came on at the end of the album, and it wasn't the first time I'd heard it, but it was the first time I properly listened to the lyrics, and it was as if Bjork was sitting inside my head, singing directly to me. I started to cry. 'You'll be given love, you'll be taken care of'. 'Maybe not from the sources You have poured yours Maybe not from the directions You are staring at.
It meant so much to my situation, and made me feel so much better, to just 'twist your head around' (I always thought it was 'trust') - 'it's all around you,
A beautiful song, that's my little story about it. I never did receive love from the girl I was staring at, but ten years later I'm married to the love of my life, and with three gorgeous kids, so I guess ol' Bjork was right!
Stunningly beautiful song. And crazily sexual. I don't need to state my opinion of what it means, because that has already been covered, but I can really imagine making love to this song (as opposed to "having sex"). Hot. But with a definite tinge of sadness.
Stunningly beautiful song. And crazily sexual. I don't need to state my opinion of what it means, because that has already been covered, but I can really imagine making love to this song (as opposed to "having sex"). Hot. But with a definite tinge of sadness.
I'm glad to know that I'm not the only person who has been moved to tears by this song. Thank you for sharing.
I'm glad to know that I'm not the only person who has been moved to tears by this song. Thank you for sharing.