HyperBallad

**HyperBallad ** we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning I walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever I find lying around
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it's become a habit a way to start the day

I go through all this before you wake up so I can feel happier to be safe up here with you

it's real early morning no-one is awake I'm back at my cliff, still throwing things off I listen to the sounds they make on their way down I follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks

and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open?

I go through all this before you wake up so I can feel happier to be safe up here with you  **Music video: ** [|**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61IS-4ZnAzE**]  **Lyrics (source): ** [|**http://bjork.com/facts/lyrics/**] **Björk’s website: ** [|**http://bjork.com/**]  Björk Guðmundsdottir is a singer and songwriter from Iceland, who makes mostly alternative rock, trip hop music, electronica, and baroque pop. She was born in 1965, and was only 12 when her first album, “Björk”, was created. She had her real breakthrough in 1988 doing vocals in “the Sugarcubes”. A few years later, Björk went solo and released the album “Gling-gló”, to be followed by ”Debut”, “Post”, “Telegram”, “Homogenic”, “Selmasongs”, “Vespertine”, “Family tree”, “live box”, “Medulla” and “Volta”. Björk is well known for her extremely different style. She is generally counted as the world’s most eccentric female solo artist, due to both her characteristic, screaming yet fluting voice with Nordic accent, her crazy music and surreal lyrics, and her colourful, challenging way of dressing. Not challenging as in short skirts and so, but merely as in exceedingly unorthodox. Her most famous songs are probably “All is full of love”, “it’s oh so quiet” and “Play dead”. She has also created the movie soundtrack for “Dancer in the dark”, and she received the “best female actress”-award on the 2000 Cannes film festival for her performance in the same movie. Björk currently lives in Reykjavik, Iceland, with Matthew Barney and her two children, Ísadóra Bjarkadóttir Barney and Þór Eldon. Analyzing HyperBallad In HyperBallad, a woman (possibly Björk) is telling her story to an emptiness that she’s confident does not hear her. She almost talks to herself, as if her story has no purpose and no end, and no one should have to listen. She’s the 1st person narrator; she tells with “I” and “me”. She talks about how she lives with someone at the top of a mountain, and how she every morning, really early, goes over to the edge to throw garbage and little things off and watch them hit the rocks. She does it to feel happier about being where she is. I think these lyrics are expressing a feeling of pointlessness, fear and, last but not least, unhappiness. Her living on the top of a mountain symbolizes her being in a relationship that in one way is close to heaven, but still makes her feel alone. She does not feel as safe as she maybe is. Sometimes she thinks her only way out of the relationship is dying from it, because she cannot make herself tell him how she feels. The lyrics have a very sad tone, and they seem to be leading nowhere. They seek for comfort in routine and mind escaping. One pictures a windy, grey, Icelandic mountain, and a woman as a teeny, tiny silhouette on top of it, throwing little pebbles and car parts off the edge. She doesn’t really have a readable face expression, because everything is locked up inside… So that he will not know. The lyrics, I think, is in a way trying to tell you that some feelings can’t be chased away, and even though you may be able to work on them by distracting your mind and let the troublesome emotions tumble on their own for a while, they do not disappear. But also, that hurting someone sometimes feels even harder than accepting a way of life that you don’t really feel that you can love in the right way. Then, there’s the title, which is very peculiar, and in a way insinuates with the word “hyper” that something is very strong and intense. It hints about a heart beating very fast and a mind thinking very hard.

I really like the not-really-melancholic-but-fake-happy-tone in this song. It is full of emotions while trying to ignore them as well, and it is very fascinating. Björk's lyrics are always quite surreal; they do not have ony one meaning. They can mean almost anything, it only depends on how you want to understand it. To me, this song's attempt not to sound fragile or devastated leads to just that, and that's way I chose it.