Genius to fall asleep to your tape last night
So warm
Sounds go through the muscles
These abstract, wordless movements
Move, move, move, move, move
They start off cells that haven't been touched before
These cells are virgins
Waking up slowly (Waking up)
Waking up slowly (Wake up)
[Chorus]
My headphones
They saved my life
Your tape
It lulled me to sleep, to sleep, to sleep
[Post-Chorus]
Nothing will be the same
I'm asleep
I'm fast asleep
[Verse 2]
I like this resonance
It elevates me
I don't recognise myself
This is very interesting
My headphones
They saved my life
Your tape
Lulled me to sleep, to sleep, to sleep
[Post-Chorus]
I'm fast asleep now
You're still with me
I'm fast asleep
I'm asleep
[Chorus]
My headphones
They saved, saved my life
Your tape
It lulled me to sleep, to sleep, to sleep
About
Post’s closing track, the experimental “Headphones”, was written and produced by Björk in collaboration with trip-hop pioneer Tricky; the two were romantically involved around that time. It was dedicated to Graham Massey, a founding member of 808 State and Björk’s friend. Björk also described the song as “a love letter to sound. The sound of sound. Resonances, frequencies, silences and such… a music-worship thing.”
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“I went into my diary and found a complete lyric about receiving a compilation tape in the post from a friend. It’s a very personal thing. You’re pissed off with things generally. You save it until the evening, and after you’ve had your bath and brushed your teeth, you go to bed and take your Walkman and put you headphones on and you fall asleep. The lyric is a letter to that person. I had this idea to do a song that is like a worship of headphones.”
Björk
- 1.Army of Me
- 2.Hyper-ballad
- 5.Enjoy
- 7.Isobel
- 9.I Miss You
- 10.Cover Me
- 11.Headphones
- 12.Sweet Intuition
- 15.Charlene
