SONNETS / UNREALITIES XI
It may not always be so;
and I say
and if your lips
which I have loved
should touch another's
and your dear strong fingers clutch
her heart
as mine in time
not far away;
If on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence
as I know,
or such great writhing words
as, uttering overmuch,
stand helpelessly before the spirit at bay;
If this should be,
I say
if this should be
you of my heart
send me a little word;
that I may go
unto her
and take her hands,
saying;
Accept all happiness from me
Then I shall turn my face
and hear one bird
sing terribly afar
in the lost lands
LYRICS IN THE BOOKLET
it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which I have loved, should touch
another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart, as mine in time not far away;
if on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence as I know, or such
great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;
if this should, i say if this should be -
you of my heart, send me a little word;
that I may go unto him, and take his hands,
saying, Accept all happiness from me.
then shall I turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
SONG INFO
Performed by Bjork with The Icelandic Choir
Based on a poem by E.E. Cummings called "It may not always be so"
"Basically, there's 'Sonnets', and they have many unrealities, and this is reali
ty number 11. It's like a chunk of poems, and this is one of them. It's kind of
him taking the piss of himself, when you make up things that scare you out of no
where - you're just paranoid. In this particular case it's about him being madly
in love with a girl, things are totally euphoric and couldn't be more perfect,
and then his mind starts playing games on him. He starts imagining, what if, in
five years time or something, she sould meet someone else, and how he would deal
with that. He asks his girlfriend then; in five years time, when she meets and
falls in love with someone else, and will smell his hair and kiss him and be nak
ed with him and all these things - could she please tell him gently, and then he
would go up to her new lover and wish him good luck with his new girlfriend, ta
ke his hand and wish him all the happiness in the world, and then walk away. It'
s sort of "how hard can you make it on yourself", you know? I just think it was
sort of funny, because it happens - the few times in your life when you feel you
've got it right, your mind start going off on "what happens if this goes wrong?
" and this feeling of carrying a chinese vase across a motorway... "oh it's defi
nitely gonna break, I know it's gonna break", and you make it up in your head wh
en everything is actually OK." (Bjork, XFM 25aug04)
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