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Rating: I remember that Björk in an interview given after the release of this album advised to look at the covers and read the lyrics of all her solo albums carefully to understand the stages of her professional and life journey.
Indeed, the image on the cover of this album strongly contrasts with that of the first two. Björk is a warrior who seems to have to defend the shy child that appears in Debut or the girl with the mischievously seductive look of Post.
In Homogenic, the moment of awareness and renewal that emerges after great suffering seems frozen in time.
What are the causes of this suffering? We don't know: perhaps a disappointment in love or having emerged from her so cocooned world, from her country (Björk is indeed famous worldwide by the time this album is released).
It's no coincidence that the album opens with Hunter "I'm going hunting / I'm the hunter... (you just didn't know me)..." who is the interlocutor? Who simply didn't know her?
Perhaps she herself didn't know herself, was immature: "How could I be so immature / to think he would replace / the missing elements in me..." now she knows she can find the strength, those "missing elements" only within herself.
From this inner journey comes a difficult album of great sound and vocal experimentation. Let's say that Homogenic is an obligatory passage for Björk to arrive at Vespertine, at that woman who is so confident in herself and her allure that she no longer even needs colors.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Hunter (04:15)
If travel is searching
And home, what's been found
I'm not stopping
I'm going hunting
I'm the hunter
I'll bring back the goods
But I don't know when
Thought i could organise freedom
How Scandinavian of me
You sussed it out, didn't you?
You could smell it
So you left me on my own
To complete the mission
Now I'm leaving it all behind
I'm going hunting
I'm the hunter ....
02 Jóga (05:05)
All these accidents,
That happen,
Follow the dot,
Coincidence,
Makes sense,
Only with you,
You don't have to speak,
I feel.
Emotional landscapes,
They puzzle me,
The riddle gets solved,
And you push me up to this
State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
Is where I want to be.
All that no-one sees,
You see,
What's inside of me,
Every nerve that hurts,
You heal,
Deep inside of me, oo-oohh,
You don't have to speak,
I feel.
Emotional landscapes,
They puzzle me - confuse,
Then the riddle gets solved,
And you push me up to this
State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
Is where I want to be.
State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
Emotional landscapes,
They puzzle me,
the riddle gets solved,
And you push me up to this
State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
Is where I want to be.
State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
State of, state of,
How beautiful,
Emergency,
Is where I want to be.
State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
Is where I want to be.
State of emergency,
How beautiful to be.
03 Unravel (03:17)
While you are away
My heart comes undone
Slowly unravels
In a ball of yarn
The devil collects it
With a grin
Our love
In a ball of yarn
He'll never return it
So when you come back
We'll have to make new love
04 Bachelorette (05:16)
I'm a fountain of blood
In the shape of a girl
You're bird on the brim
Hypnotized by the whirl
Drink me - make me feel real
Wet your beak in the stream
The game we're playing is life
Love's a two way dream
Leave me now - return tonight
The tide will show you the way
If you forget my name you will go astray
Like a killer whale trapped in a bay
I'm a path of cinders
Burning under your feet
You're the one who walks me
I'm your one way street
I'm a whisper in water
A secret for you to hear
You are the one who grows distant
When I beckon you near
Leave me now - return tonight
The tide will show you the way
If you forget my name go astray
Like a killer whale trapped in a bay
I'm a tree that grows hearts
One for each that you take
You're the intruders hand
I'm the branch that you break
Life is a necklace of fears
Your uncried tears on a string
Our love will untie them - come here
Loving me is the easiest thing
05 All Neon Like (05:53)
Not 'til you halo all over me
I'll come over
Not 'til it shimmers 'round your skull
I'll be yours
I weave for you
The marvellous web
Glow in the dark threads
All neon like
The cocoon surrounds you
Embraces all
So you can sleep
Foetus-style
They will assist us
'cause we're asking for help
And the luminous beam - it feeds you!
The soft distortion
Fills you up
Nourish nourish
Your turtle heart
They will assist us
'cause we're asking for help
And the luminous beam - it feeds you!
(Don't get angry with yourself)
(Don't get angry with yourself)
I'll heal you
... with a razor blade, I'll cut a slit open
and the luminous beam feeds you, honey!
06 5 Years (04:29)
You think you're denying me of something
Well I've got plenty
You're the one who's missing out
But you won't notice
'till after five years
If you'll live that long
You'll wake up
All loveless
I dare you
To take me on
I dare you
To show me your palms
I'm so bored with cowards
That say they want
Then they can't handle
You can't handle love
You can't handle love
You just can't handle
I dare you
To take me on
I dare you
To show me your palms
What's so scary ?
Not a threat in sight
You just can't handle
You can't handle love
You can't handle love, baby
You can't handle love
It's obvious
You can't handle
I dare you
To take me on
I dare you
To show me your palms
I'm so bored of cowards
That say they want
Then they can't handle
You can't handle love, baby
You can't handle love,
It's obvious
You can't handle
I dare you, I dare you
I dare you, I dare you
07 Immature (03:06)
How could I be so immature ?
To think he could replace,
The missing elements in me,
How extremely lazy of me
** Icelandic part **
How could I be so immature ?
To think he could replace,
The missing elements in me,
How extremely lazy of me.
How could I be so immature ?
How could I be so immature ?
08 Alarm Call (04:19)
I have walked this earth and watched people.
I can be sincere and say I like them
You can't say no to hope, can't say no to happiness
I want to go on a mountain-top
with a radio and good batteries
play a joyous tune
and free the human race from suffering
I'm no fucking Buddhist but this is enlightenment
The less room you give me, the more space I've got
This is an alarm-call so wake-up wake-up now
Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me
09 Pluto (03:19)
excuse me
but i just have to explode
explode this body
off me
i'll be brand new
brand new tomorrow
a little bit tired
but brand new
10 All Is Full of Love (04:32)
You'll be given love
You'll be taken care of
You'll be given love
You have to trust it
Maybe not from the sources
You have poured yours into
Maybe not
From the directions
You are
Staring at
Twist your head around
It's all around you
All is full of love
All around you
All is full of love
You just ain't receiving
All is full of love
Your phone is off the hook
All is full of love
Your doors are all shut
All is full of love
right here
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