Lyrics on "Post"

[Frank Dieckmann]

Hi, everyone,

I am Frank Dieckmann from Germany.
Listening to the last song on "Post", My Headphones, I thaught she used some
words of her iceland language at the end.
Is that true and does anyone know the translation ?

Frank

[C. Shearer]

Hi, yes I believe in many of her songs she speaks Icelandic. Isn't that a
BEAUTIFUL song? The irony is that you hear it better if you listen to it
with headphones yourself. Then you hear different things in each ear. And
I'm not insane, I promise.
Anyway, to know what she's saying, I'd try to find the lyrics on either
the Ultimate Intimate or other sites with Post lyrics. There's also a page
on the Internet devoted entirely to Post. Just look under "Bjork" in
Yahoo! and one of the sites listed should be called "Post" or something
like that.

Good luck,
Cailean

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[Ugliness Man]

In article
<Pine.A41.4.10.990415...@dante36.u.washington.edu>, "C.
Shearer" <cshe...@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Anyway, to know what she's saying, I'd try to find the lyrics on either
> the Ultimate Intimate or other sites with Post lyrics.

for those of you who are new, have never been to UI, or haven't memorized the
URL, it's http://bjork.mmedia.is/

UgM
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[theIconoclast]

yes, the words are icelandic.

as for translations... there may not be any because the words are just
interjections in icelandic that have no translations -like translating 'wow'
into icelandic.

here is an interview excerpt about the song:

In a hotel room Tricky plays Björk a drum pattern and melody. It is only
three or four notes, but already strong in atmosphere. Simple but strong.
Vague but definite. Björk has had some lyrics waiting for just such a moment
for the last four years.
"I wrote them in Iceland when me and Graham kept sending each other tapes -
he would just save my life! I would wait 'til the evening, put my headphones
on and just listen to the songs. And it would be so nurturing to fall asleep
to the music... 'Headphones' is a lot about that. I always had this lyric at
the back of my head and would put it to subconscious music, all the noises
you hear when you are asleep. It's just so nutritious. There's no defences,
or analysing, or logic. So I said that to Tricky and he said 'Fine by me'.".

-From The Post Book. (ISBN # 0-7475-2373-8) Published by Bloomsbury.

here they are (retrieved from:
http://www.intimate.org/bjork/lyrics/bjork4_11.htm)

HEADPHONES

hm

genius to
fall asleep
to your tape last night
so warm
sounds go through the muscles

these abstract
uh-wordless
move - ments
move... move... move... move... move
move-move-move-move-move

alt sem han ser

they start off as cells
that haven't been
touched before
these cells are virgins

waking up slowly
waking up
wake up!
waking up slowly
wake up!

my headphones!
they saved my life
your tape!
it lulled me to sleep, to sleep, to sleep
to sleep, to sleep, to sleep, to sleep, to sleep

nothing will be the same
I'm asleep
ohh ohh ohh ohh ohh
I'm fast asleep
oh oh oh

I like this resonance
oh oh oh
it elevates me
oh oh oh oh
I don't recognize myself
this is very interesting
-sting -sting -sting

ooh, ooh ,ooh
ahh ahh ahh ahh
o-a, e, ah
i can't get it to stop
ahh ahh ohh ohh iihh
i can't stop
ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh
dont stop!
hhh...
ahh-li-ahh
aa-aa-woo-oo-ooh

my headphones!
they saved my life
eg kemur ah-issi-leiða
ah kemur þig
your tape!
kea-la-li! yahi-ee-ee!
ah-lulled me to sleep, to sleep, to sleep
to sleep, to sleep, to sleep, to sleep, to sleep

I am fast asleep now

oran, a fylkist að mer
oh völlila
you're still with me!
yeah
o enginn tellur eins svo þú
enginn tellur eins svo þú
eðan wú
engin eiðar altsem hann kemur la
eðan biður ser
yeah-heeh!
engin hann kemur
enginn hann kemur
hann skilur eins svo þú!
enginn hann kemur
ah hoh-lee
enginn hann kemur
ohh ohh ohh ohh
ohh ohh ohh ohh
i'm fast asleep
ooh aah
næ

i'm asleep
ahh ahh ohh

my headphones!
they saved, saved my life
hh.. hh.. ahh
your tape!
it lulled me to sleep,
lulled me to sleep
to sleep, to sleep

eðan liðe meshina
liðena telur mér
yeah-men lo-o-oh
allt sem han ser
olan biðer al-la
kele moftene og moftene,
moftene, moftene,
moftene, moftene,
ichtene, tachtala,
hooh-ta! hooh-ta!
ache-lao-ta-va,
ichtede, aah!
aaaaahh!
hooh-ta! hooh-ta!
tiðatin mey
hooh-ta! hooh-ta!
hooh-ta! hooh-ta!