DESIRED CONSTELLATION
It's tricky when
you feel someone
has done
something on your behalf
It's slippery when
your sense of justice
murmurs underneath
And is asking you:
How am I going to make it right?
How am I going to make it right?
With a palm full of stars
I throw them like dice
(repeatedly)
On the table
(repeat - repeatedly)
I shake them like dice
and throw them on the table
repeatedly
(repeatedly)
until the desired constellation appears
How am I going to make it right?
How am I going to make it right?
How am I going to make it right?
(And you hear: how am I going to make it right?)
How am I going to make it right?
How am I going to make it right?
(How am I going to make it right?)
SONG INFO
Performed by Bjork with The Icelandic Choir
Programming: Olivier Alary
"Olivier Alary (Ensemble) had sent me a CD with a few sketches, and said "if you
ever feel like using those, please do." A year later, I wrote this melody and w
as singing it in a cabin by a lake here in Iceland in january 2004. That was lik
e the first little trips away from my little girl - I would go three hours a day
to this cabin by the lake and do whatever I could and then drive back to town.
I would sing several versions of this melody, and then I would say "wait a minut
e, this is this thing that Olivier gave me a year ago" so then I sang it to that
and it fitted perfect together, it was really incredible! Then when I came back
from the tour and discovered that the whole album was gonna be a vocal album, I
thought "wait a minute, what about this song here, I really like this song and
it should be on the album". So I started doing choir arrangements for it. I did
a really complicated choir arrangement, for like a sixteen piece choir, and reco
rded it three times doing totally different things, and it was like 50 tracks of
voices, but it just wasn't right, so I kept editing it on and spent like days a
nd weeks editing it, and it never was right. Then I emailed Olivier and said "Li
sten, I've tried everything with this track, but I can't just be dogmatic about
this album. At the end of the day, the best music's gotta win. So I think I'm ju
st gonna stick to your old version, because I think that's still the best one."
And then he just said "Guess what! I made it out of your own voice!" So he actua
lly took a voice of mine, saying "I'm not sure what to do with it" from Hidden P
lace and did a song out of that! And then he sent it it to me, and didn't tell m
e, just in case I didn't .. you know, whatever... it was just a secret!" (Mixing
It, 20aug04)
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