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.
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.