Bachelorette Lyrics
I'm a fountain of blood
In the shape of a girl
You're the bird on the brim
Hypnotised by the whirl
Drink me, make me feel real
Wet your beak in the stream
Game we're playing is life
Love's a two-way dream
[Chorus]
Leave me now, return tonight
Tide will show you the way
If you forget my name
You will go astray
Like a killer whale
Trapped in a bay
[Verse 2]
I'm a path of cinders
Burning under your feet
You're the one who walks me
I'm your one-way street
[Verse 3]
I'm a whisper in the water
Secret for you to hear
You're the one who grows distant
When I beckon you near
Leave me now, return tonight
Tide will show you the way
If you forget my name
You will go astray
Like a killer whale
Trapped in a bay
[Verse 4]
I'm a tree that grows hearts
One for each that you take
You're the intruder's hand
I'm the branch that you break
[Outro]
[Gibberish]
About
So on Bachelorette, Isobel decides to return to the city. It’s like the sequel to her story. She goes back to the city by train, which is why the beats of the song are like a train, and she prepares to confront all the people that she loves with love. It’s a disarming confrontation.
- Bjork
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“Because I wanted the lyrics to be so epic, I got my friend Sjón – who’s a poet in Iceland – to write them. We sat together at the kitchen table and drank a lot of red wine and I told him the whole story for hours and days and he wrote the words from that story. ” Record Collector, August 2002
“There’s a lot of story-telling going on, a lot of brutal, in-your-face stories. One of them is this kind of Wuthering Heights epic. She puts one hand melodramatically over her heart. The first song in this epic was "Human Behaviour”. The second one is “Isobel”. I guess this one is the sequel."
-Musician, December 1997
- 1.Siðasta Ég
- 2.Glóra
- 3.Seagull
- 5.Mama
- 10.Mother Heroic
- 12.Karvel
- 13.I Go Humble
- 15.Unravel
- 16.Cover Me
- 17.Possibly Maybe
- 18.The Anchor Song
- 19.Hunter
- 20.All Neon Like
- 21.I’ve Seen It All
- 22.Bachelorette
- 23.Play Dead
- 24.Venus as a Boy
- 25.Hyper-ballad
- 27.Isobel
- 28.Jóga
- 29.Unravel
- 30.Bachelorette
- 32.ScatterHeart
- 33.I’ve Seen It All
- 34.Pagan Poetry
