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Body Memory by Björk
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“Body Memory” is Utopia’s ten-minute-long centerpiece, and was written as a response to Vulnicura’s ten-minute-long break-up song “Black Lake”. Because that song was more negative and depressing than anything Björk had ever written, she wanted this song to be more optimistic, a manifesto about “how...
Body Memory Lyrics
[Verse 1]
First snow of Winter
I'm walking hills and valleys
Adore this mystical fog!
This fucking mist!
These cliffs are just showing off!
[Refrain 1]
Then the body memory kicks in
I mime my home mountains
The moss that I'm made of
I redeem myself
[Verse 2]
I've been wrestling my fate
Do I accept this ending?
Will I accept my death
Or struggle claustrophobic?
Fought like a wolverine
With my destiny
Refuse to accept what was meant to be
[Refrain 2]
Then the body memory kicks in
And I trust the unknown
Unfathomable imagination
Surrender to future
[Verse 3]
Oh, how to capture all this love
And find a pathway for it
Like threading an ocean through a needle
River through a keyhole
Can't fathom the grasp
I can't grasp the fathom
[Refrain 3]
Then my body memory kicks in
My limbs and tongue take over
Like the ancestors before me
Show me the flow
[Verse 4]
My sexual DNA
X-rays of my Kama Sutras
Summons different bodies
Compares spines and buttocks
And back of necks
[Refrain 4]
Then my body memory kicks in
It simply takes over
Bestiality
I redeem my body
[Verse 5]
I wasn't born urban
Toxic doesn't agree with me
Love lured me here
Into a stagnant state
My myths, my customs, ridiculed
Vacuum packed molecules
[Refrain 5]
Then my body memory kicks in
On this Brooklyn dance floor
Sweating with these rhythms
Rotate this matrix
[Verse 6]
All trapped in legal harness
Kafkaesque
Farce like patriarchy
Avoided to confront it
[Refrain 6]
Then the body memory kicks in
My warrior awakens
My turn to defend
Urban didn't tame me
[Refrain 7]
Then my body memory kicks in
All bosoms and embraces
Oral, anal entrances
Enjoy the satisfaction
If the other is growing
Body Memory Q&A
Who wrote Body Memory's ?
Body Memory was written by Björk.
When did Björk release Body Memory?
Björk released Body Memory on Fri Nov 24 2017.
What did Björk say about "Body Memory"?
Body Memory, is about how your body can get you through trauma when your head and heart can’t. It was sparked by another day she spent at her cabin, this time by herself. She wrapped herself in loads of coats, lay down on the moss, and listened to an audiobook of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. She’d...
Has the song been performed live?
Yes, it was performed during the Cornucopia tour. It was played with a circle flute, two eight-meter-long organ pipes made in Iceland that “make the audience around them rumble”, and a choir (the song’s Hamrahlíðarkórinn for the NY residency shows and European tour, and Staccato Choir for the Mexico...