VOKURO
Barinn minn
barinn minn og tinn
sefur sall i kyrre
fellur mjoll
hljott i humi a jore
grasie mitt
grasie mitt og titt
geymir mold til vors
Hjufrar lind
leynt vie brekkurot
vakir eins og vie
lifi trutt
kyrrlatt kalda vermsl
augum djups
uti himinfyrre
starir stillt um nott
Langt i burt
vakir verold stor
grimmum tofrum tryllt
eirearlaus
ottast nott og dag
augu tin
ottalaus og hrein
brosa vie mer bjort
Vonin min
blessae brosie titt
vekur ljoe ur vare
hvilist jore
hljoe i ormum snas
liljuhvit
lokar augum blam
litla stulkan min
VIGIL
My farm
my farm and yours
sleeps happily at peace
falls snow
silent at dusk on earth
my grass
my grass and yours
keeps the earth til spring
Nesting spring
hid at the hill's root
awake as are we
faith in life
quiet cold spring
eye of the depths
into the firmament
staring still in the night
Far away
wakes the great world
mad with grim enchantment
disquieted
fearful of night and day
your eyes
fearless and serene
smile bright at me
My hope
your blest smile
rouses verse from sleep
the earths rests
silent in arms of snow
lily white
closes her blue eyes
my little girl
SONG INFO
Performed by Bjork with The Icelandic Choir
Written by Jakobina Sigurdardottir
Composed by Jorunn Viear
The original version of this song can be found on the Smekkleysa release by Joru
nn Viear - Unglingurinn I Skoginum.
"It probably means "Calm of being awake".. it's hard to explain. But it's basica
lly a lullaby, and it's the one song on the album that is not by me, it's by an
Icelandic composer who is like 80 years old now. There's a funny story for that
song, because I wanted that song first to be on Vespertine, and there was this m
usic box company that was making 12" copper plates where they drill holes into t
he plates that is the song, and it takes forever to do them. I got them first to
do 'Pagan Poetry', then 'Aurora' and then 'Frosti'. Then I sent 'Vokuro' for th
em to do, because the cycle of this disk takes one minute - and 'Vokuro' has fou
r verses which each take one minute, so it was perfect, and each verse goes slow
er and slower which makes sense, because most songs start slow and then go fast,
but since this is a lullaby it starts fast and goes slower. But it takes them s
o long to drill the holes in the copper plates that I still haven't got it - so
it missed Vespertine.
So then we did this song for this album, and I called the composer and go "I jus
t recorded this song, is it OK with you that I put it on my album?" and she goes
"Yeah it's OK. You're obviously very influenced by your daughter." ...I go "...
Yeah?". "Well she's got blue eyes, doesn't she?" and I couldn't really work out
what that had to do with anything. Then we said goodbye, and then later I worked
out that the song was actually sung to a little girl that has blue eyes. Four y
ears ago when I wanted to do that song, and was having the battle with the music
box-makers, there was no way I could have known that in four years time I would
have a little girl with blue eyes. It's a little bit of a sentimental story." (B
jork, XFM 25aug04)
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