Bachelorette.
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This image is of the painted panels on the “doors” into the Garden of Earthly Delights.
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid
Homogenic was the first Björk album I ever heard and Bachelorette was always so misty mysterious and lyrically stunning. That whirly drive was something I wanted to retain. But, there was a certain righteous melancholy anger in the lyric. The warning to the Uncommitted. So, here we are. And the Bosch painting seemed to have a lot going on in it which fit with the mood of this arrangement.
LYRICS :
I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl. • You're the bird on the brim Hypnotized by the Whirl • Drink me, make me feel real. • Wet your beak in the stream • The Game we're playing is Life. • Love’s a two way dream • Leave me now, return tonight. • The Tide will show you the way. • If you forget my name, you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay. • I'm a path of cinders burning under your feet. • You're the one who walks me. • I'm your one way street. • I'm a whisper in water, a secret for you to hear. • You’re the one who grows distant when I beckon you near. • Leave me now, return tonight. The Tide will show you the way. • If you forget my name, you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay. • I'm a tree that grows hearts, one for each that you take. • You're the intruder’s hand. • I'm the branch that you break.
Songwriters: Björk Gudmundsdottir / Sigurjon Birgir Sigurdsson / Bertolucci Bachelorette lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Ltd., Jora Ehf
Credits :
Recorded and wrestled at Brick Hill Studio in Orleans, MA by Jon Evans
Piano/Vox : Humberto Cordero
Violins : Carla Kihlstedt
Trumpets : Korey Charles, Kurt Charles
Guitar/Percussion : Jon Evans
Bass : Joseph Marino
Drums : Matthias Bossi