Svefn-G-Englar Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Tnspieler1012 

Cover art for Svefn-G-Englar lyrics by Sigur Rós

Don't need to go much further than the album cover to grasp this one. It's about being born, which is fitting since on the C.D. is the inscription: I gave you hope(von) that became a disappointment(von brigoi)... this is a good beginning(agaetis byrjun).

So basically they were dissapointed with their first album, so this was their way of starting again fresh...so to carry the metaphor, they are 'reborn" in the first song (note the first lyric is I'm here 'again' inside you).

Some could interpret the "birth" to deeper than the literal sense. Perhaps more in the philosophical or spiritual sense, but at the end of the day, it's all about being born.