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Hyperballad Lyrics

Artist: Bjork
Album: Post

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 all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you

It's 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

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

Comments/Interpretations
by Tahnee Akkermans on 6/17/2008 10:47pm she might have written it about a woman/girl living with someone abusive and each morning she rehearses her suicide and imagines how it could happen so that she feels safer there knowing if the abusive person does anything worse she can escape.
by O. on 6/26/2008 3:55am this explains the way I understand the song: I go through all this Before you wake up So I can feel happier To be safe up here with you
by mike on 6/26/2008 10:49pm whitley covers this song so so well
by M on 7/18/2008 11:01am Which is exactly why her song is so powerful because she does this only to feel how safe she is with the person at the top. She could always escape and abusive person without hurting herself which at least holds true in amrica.
by Daniel on 7/18/2008 8:48pm Living on a mountaintop together can be seen as a symbol of being completely in love; the beautiful view from the top is how she sees the world when she's so in love. She's at such heights of emotion Throwing off objects and imagining her death is not so much rehearsing suicide as it is testing the relationship, thinking about what it would be like to lose that love, a daily reminder of just how precarious love is. This is a private act ("before you wake up"), doubts and fears she keeps to herself. Crashing down on the rocks below can be seen as falling out of love. The line, "will my eyes be closed or open" = if she loses her love, will she have been aware of that as it was happening.
by Heidi on 7/21/2008 4:00am I am not sure of the lyrics, but Daniel, most enjoyable read!
by lady_wraith on 7/24/2008 9:23pm I think Daniel's right, but one can never be 100% sure unless the artist him/herself says what the song's about... But yeah, it seems it's about being happy and in love but realizing how fragile one becomes in that state; the risk itself is what makes it so enjoyable, makes you value it that much more. A little rite not to take things for granted...
by Taylor on 8/14/2008 10:35pm Stop analyzing such a beauitufl song so much. I personally think it's simple, she throws things off the mountain to keep herself from throwing herself off. It allows her to be close to death without actually killing herself. She does it to feel better and be safe.
by Justin on 9/8/2008 10:01pm Daniel, you have it the right way it's not about suicide at all in my opinion. well understood
by ringo on 9/23/2008 3:21pm she stated somewhere it was about people hiding their real identities from their partners just to be happier with them but in the end the real you always comes out
by nick on 10/4/2008 5:05pm it's about doing the things you have to do everyday to make yourself right for the person you love. she has issues--her own issues--that she wants to negotiate/neutralize to be as good for her partner as possible. not suicidal at all, just mental health exercises.
by NoaH on 10/5/2008 6:45pm Totally Agree with Daniel. COuldn't been explained better =)That's the sensation it gives me eveytime i listen to this song... so warm and tender... but somehow also a little sad...
by tay on 10/7/2008 8:13pm she feels that at any attempt to commmit suicide for whatever reason the better decision is to stay on the mountain with that person. her daily habits of throwing things helps he analyze and reassure her safety staying with the person.
by joy on 10/15/2008 3:28pm what is the meaning of the word Hyperballad ?
by Gia on 10/17/2008 2:36pm This is such a beautiful song. And I agree 100% w/ Daniel.
by S. on 10/17/2008 8:17pm I just think its a beautiful song. It might have somthing to do with suicide... but the lryics are pure. When it says, When it lands Will my eyes Be closed or open? That is definatly talking about death. But yeah- only the artist can tell everyone what it means.
by Jonny on 10/29/2008 12:05pm The artist may not know entirely herself what it means and any poem or piece of text is open to interpritation, great song, n some good interpritations here
by matt on 10/30/2008 6:33pm wtf is this shit its confusing u guys r all weird
by audrey on 11/8/2008 9:18am vanrability and curiosity.. all of you are right. sometimes it is the literal.. sometimes not
by A.N. on 11/11/2008 8:39pm I just discovered this song yesterday and its taken me over. It is so powerful. I agree that its not about an abusive situation, and most likely not about suicide... I think is about an intrapsychic struggle... like she is going through a ritual to manage her emotional struggles...she is doing this to be happier with her lover- she is fighting her troubling thoughts and letting them go each day.
by Victor on 11/15/2008 10:47pm Abuse? No. In a nutshell the song is about having all of your nervous breakdowns, insecurities, what have you, by yourself so that you're amour doesn't have to deal with it. The Twilight Singers do an AMAZING version of it, FYI...

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