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Björk - Black Lake

[Verse 1]
Our love was my womb but our bond has broken
And my shield is gone, my protection is taken
I am 1 wound in my pulsatin' body
Sufferin' being

[Verse 2]
My heart is enormous, lake black with potion
I am blind, drownin' in this ocean

[Verse 3]
My soul torn apart, and my spirit unspoken [?]
Into far over the mist, over...

[Verse 4]
True fear may limits last
And emotions, I am bored of your
Apocalyptic obsessions
Did I love you too much?
Devotion and me broken
So I repent, destroyed
(I must, I...)

[Verse 4]
I did it for love
I honored my feelings
You betrayed your own heart
Corrupted that organ

[Verse 5]
Family was always
Our own sacred, mutual mission which
which you abandoned

[Verse 6]
You have nothing to give
Your heart is hollow
I'm drowned in sorrow
We hold inside up and down
Lake darkness eternity and [?]

[Verse 7]
I am all-glowing shining rocket
Returning home as I enter
The atmosphere, I burn off
Layer by layer

In the album booklet, the sub-title for this song is “2 months after”, signifying that this song was written 2 months after the breakup of the relationship between Björk and Matthew Barney. Described as “a 10-minute song in which she works up the nerve to throw darts at Barney and release the fluid fury of a woman scorned. It is a Björk diss track” and “Björk’s 10-minute version of Big Sean’s ”I Don’t Fuck With You,“”, Björk commented to Pitchfork: "I was really embarrassed about that song. I can still hardly listen to it." During an interview for Grapevine.is she clarifies why the song is so long: "It’s like, when you’re trying to express something and you sort of start, but then nothing comes out. You can maybe utter five words and then you’re just stuck in the pain. And the chords in-between, they sort of represent that. […] We called them “the freezes,” these moments between the verses. They’re longer than the verses, actually. It’s just that one emotion when you’re stuck. It is hard, but it’s also the only way to escape the pain, just going back and having another go, trying to make another verse." A trailer of the music video was uploaded on MoMAvideos on February 13th, 2015.

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