Bjork-Hyperballad (official videoclip)+Lyrics to sing along with Bjork!

Second track and fourth single release from her third solo album Post (1995)- also the song that added the prefix hyper on my nickname!
(Written by Bjork)

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

it's become a habit
a way
to start the day

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

safe up here (with you)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bjork
• Hyperballad
• Post
• Single
• Gudmunsdottir
• etc

[HYPERJOHNBASS]

LOVE THIS song and LOVE BIOPHILIA too..

[HYPERJOHNBASS]

"Basically, 'Hyper-ballad' is about having this kind of bag going on and three years have passed and you're not high anymore. You have to make an effort consciously and nature's not helping you anymore. So you wake up early in the morning and you sneak outside and you do something horrible and destructive, break whatever you can find, watch a horrible film, read a bit of William Burroughs, something really gross and come home and be like, 'Hi honey, how are you?'."

[bujuluv1]

Best version on youtube. Thank you for this!

[omaquair]

Even if I like very much this song, what I found so fascinating, is that title... Hyper ballad... How can you hyper ballad yourself ? Makes me think about Dali, Jodorowski and all those surrealist guys.

[pagandude1]

@HYPERJOHNBASS hey thanks... that is truly the best damn description i have heard yet about this song.... i love Bjork to bits sometimes it is a little hard to get a handle on where Bjork is coming from with the occasional song but usually i just bask in her beautiful professionalism ...

[pagandude1]

this is one of the most beautiful, pagan and spiritual songs that Bjork put out---i'm still listening to it...

[3DSTARGATE1]

Beautiful song!

[spamstoper3]

5*********************

[MrsFrakkur]

Bjork's voice makes that she is the most talented singer in the world

[nightshadeah]

Bjork, I Love You.

 - Beawulfa

[breakingxmyxheart]

I didn't even realize until the end that Yeah Yeah Yeah's do a cover of this song. I love them <3 Honestly, I think I like their version better. My favorite song by Bjork so far is Army of Me.

[gsc2011]

The mental image of Bjork standing beside a cliff throwing car parts over the edge is just... Too much. Bjork is too much.