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Utopia by Björk
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The title track of the album is about her imagined dream-world, her “Utopia”. There she’s connected to nature. The birds create the soundscape of this world as a sort of natural flutes. Note that a flute and a creature resembling a bird hatchling appear on the album cover, which shows the importance...
Utopia Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Bird species never seen or heard before
The first flute carved from the first fauna
[Refrain 1]
Utopia
It's not elsewhere
Let's purify
[Verse 2]
You assigned me to protect our lantern
To be intentional about the light
[Refrain 2]
Utopia
It isn't elsewhere
It's here
[Verse 3]
My instinct has been shouting at me for years
Saying, "Let's get out of here!"
Huge toxic tumour bulging underneath the ground here
Purify, purify, purify, purify toxicity
Utopia Q&A
Who wrote Utopia's ?
Utopia was written by Björk.
What birds are featured on the song?
Björk sampled the Jean C. Roché track “Gran Sabana” from his 1973 album Oiseaux du (Birds of) Vénézuéla. The birdsongs sampled on “Utopia” are from crested oropendola and the screaming piha, both birds from South America.
Crested oropendola
Screaming piha