The line "like me, like me" is the same notes used in a fox hunt reveille.
Sing the line in cut-time (twice the speed) and you'll notice it's the same thing.
This is most likely intentional. It lends the sense of urgency that comes in the opening of the fox hunt...all the men on horses letting loose the hounds to hunt that desirable, foxy, crafty creature.
It could also be tied to the more occult leaning of what I mentioned relating the "devoted to God" meaning of Isobel. In numerology the alphabet letters are assigned a number, A=1, B=2, etc. until it hits 9 and then goes back to 1(one), I=9, J=1, K=2, etc. The letters F, O, X each are equal to 6 (F=6, O=6, X=6). ASO there again we have a Luciferian connection. Lucifer's reasoning is almost exactly equitable with Nature's tendencies: both act according to God's prescriptions solely and completely...in a sense they worship and are devoted only to God. It was God's orders that the angels serve not just God but Man as well. Lucifer defied God by wanting only to serve God and not Man. So here we have that connection with the self-absorbed, self-serving, mechanical-nature of the Self evident in the lyrics... Nature is in its steel-wrought "Ivory Tower" unempathetic to the needs of the world servicing only the philosophy implied by its own Nature... to anyone that would listen to It(Nature) a world-view and personal-view of pure individualism and self-service based on the development of a human's life-arc.
So there is what one can experience within their own capacity, aka God(Forest/Nature).... and then there is the environment of existence which is defined by the congregation of Man(Society/City).
So yes, "like me, like me" is the "girl" that is "speaking" these lyrics. This "girl" is the "fox" that the World is hunting for to either lustfully devour or masculinely control.
Surprisingly, a very "christian" song. I've tried out all the other elements in other systems but this is the only one that hits all of the points made.
[ pssst... bjork is a secret christian, pass it on...]
One element I didn't address is the "na na naaa na na" part. You've all heard something saying this "phrase" when someone is childishly mocking someone else. "Nana na na-naanaa". That's also intentional here... it comes after the stanza that ends with the line "a simple excuse", which to me is telling of a childish impudence and disobedience, much like Lucifer in the last paragraphs. This is evident in the line beginning that stanza, "When she does it she means to". So "she" knows that she is doing something "wrong" by simply acting out the base, mechanical, unforgiving "lust"-driven philosophy of Nature. "Moth delivers her message/ Unexplained on your collar"...it begins referencing the phrase "like a moth to the flame" which stands for the moth's Natural tendency...drawn as if by Design/Nature. The "collar" mention is referencing those guilt-ridden lipstick stains on a married man's collar... the "message delivered" is that of the "moth", the Nature/Instinct-driven Insect, Lucifer. "Crawling in silence/ A simple excuse" is a little unclear to me... the first part could be a reference to the "spark from a forest pitch dark"... a situation relationship diminished to its basest quality by the excuse that drove them to destroy it... "a simple excuse"... which happens to be "I just naturally wanted to, it's at the very core of everyone's being to be driven by lust". "Lust" here stands for any natural/instinctual drive or attraction and need not be relegated simply to a christian view of sin. Many things attract, not merely just sexually, but here it is explained in sexual terms as its vehicle. And applied to Bjork's own statement it would seem this "understanding" was extracted from the world by experiences tending toward the sexual.
Another thing I noticed:
The line "like me, like me" is the same notes used in a fox hunt reveille. Sing the line in cut-time (twice the speed) and you'll notice it's the same thing. This is most likely intentional. It lends the sense of urgency that comes in the opening of the fox hunt...all the men on horses letting loose the hounds to hunt that desirable, foxy, crafty creature.
It could also be tied to the more occult leaning of what I mentioned relating the "devoted to God" meaning of Isobel. In numerology the alphabet letters are assigned a number, A=1, B=2, etc. until it hits 9 and then goes back to 1(one), I=9, J=1, K=2, etc. The letters F, O, X each are equal to 6 (F=6, O=6, X=6). ASO there again we have a Luciferian connection. Lucifer's reasoning is almost exactly equitable with Nature's tendencies: both act according to God's prescriptions solely and completely...in a sense they worship and are devoted only to God. It was God's orders that the angels serve not just God but Man as well. Lucifer defied God by wanting only to serve God and not Man. So here we have that connection with the self-absorbed, self-serving, mechanical-nature of the Self evident in the lyrics... Nature is in its steel-wrought "Ivory Tower" unempathetic to the needs of the world servicing only the philosophy implied by its own Nature... to anyone that would listen to It(Nature) a world-view and personal-view of pure individualism and self-service based on the development of a human's life-arc.
So there is what one can experience within their own capacity, aka God(Forest/Nature).... and then there is the environment of existence which is defined by the congregation of Man(Society/City). So yes, "like me, like me" is the "girl" that is "speaking" these lyrics. This "girl" is the "fox" that the World is hunting for to either lustfully devour or masculinely control.
Surprisingly, a very "christian" song. I've tried out all the other elements in other systems but this is the only one that hits all of the points made.
[ pssst... bjork is a secret christian, pass it on...]
One element I didn't address is the "na na naaa na na" part. You've all heard something saying this "phrase" when someone is childishly mocking someone else. "Nana na na-naanaa". That's also intentional here... it comes after the stanza that ends with the line "a simple excuse", which to me is telling of a childish impudence and disobedience, much like Lucifer in the last paragraphs. This is evident in the line beginning that stanza, "When she does it she means to". So "she" knows that she is doing something "wrong" by simply acting out the base, mechanical, unforgiving "lust"-driven philosophy of Nature. "Moth delivers her message/ Unexplained on your collar"...it begins referencing the phrase "like a moth to the flame" which stands for the moth's Natural tendency...drawn as if by Design/Nature. The "collar" mention is referencing those guilt-ridden lipstick stains on a married man's collar... the "message delivered" is that of the "moth", the Nature/Instinct-driven Insect, Lucifer. "Crawling in silence/ A simple excuse" is a little unclear to me... the first part could be a reference to the "spark from a forest pitch dark"... a situation relationship diminished to its basest quality by the excuse that drove them to destroy it... "a simple excuse"... which happens to be "I just naturally wanted to, it's at the very core of everyone's being to be driven by lust". "Lust" here stands for any natural/instinctual drive or attraction and need not be relegated simply to a christian view of sin. Many things attract, not merely just sexually, but here it is explained in sexual terms as its vehicle. And applied to Bjork's own statement it would seem this "understanding" was extracted from the world by experiences tending toward the sexual.
This makes a lot of sense and I agree with your comment. :D
This makes a lot of sense and I agree with your comment. :D