Isobel was written by Björk, Nellee Hooper and Marius De Vries, and the lyrics were made by Sjón - his very first songlyric in fact. Nellee Hooper and Björk produced it together, and released it in 1995 on Björk's second album "Post". To direct this video, Michel Gondry was once again called in for his unique visual style. The song was also based on the sonority of Elis Regina and later dedicated to her.
Isobel
Björk Lyrics
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Glowed the tiniest spark
It burst into flame
Like me
Like me
My name Isobel
Married to myselfMy love Isobel
Living by herself
In a heart full of dust
Lives a creature called lust
It surprises and scares
Like me
Like me
My name Isobel
Married to myself
My love Isobel
Living by herself
When she does it she means to
Moth delivers her message
Unexplained on your collar
Crawling in silence
A simple excuse
Nana na na na, Nana na na na
Nana na na na, Nana na na na
In a tower of steel
Nature forges a deal
To raise wonderful hellLike me
Like me
My name Isobel
Married to myself
My love Isobel
Living by herself
When she does it she means to
Moth delivers her message
Unexplained on your collar
Crawling in silence
A simple excuse
Nana na na na, Nana na na na
Nana na na na, Nana na na na
Nana na na na, Nana na na na
Nana na na na, Nana na na na
The song "Isobel" by Björk is about a lonely and isolated woman who has created a world for herself in which she is married to herself and lives by herself. The song presents a metaphorical story about Isobel, who is like a spark that ignites into a flame, an uncontrollable force that surprises and scares her just like lust. The song describes nature as being able to raise wonderful hell, and this is something that Isobel herself experiences because of her isolation.
The lyric "married to myself" suggests that the singer has accepted and come to terms with her loneliness and is happy in her own company. She has created a world in which she has control over her life, and she is free to live how she chooses. The reference to the moth delivering the message could be interpreted as a metaphor for unexpected and uncontrollable forces coming into her life, whereas the "unexplained on your collar" could be a reference to infidelity or something that is difficult to explain.
The song suggests that Isobel's world is one of her own creation, which is both beautiful and terrifying. It is a world where she is in control, but she is also alone. The song suggests that the world is unpredictable, and we never know what we might encounter, but we have to embrace it and continue to live our lives.
Line by Line Meaning
In a forest pitch dark
The singer sets a scene with a dark forest, where the slightest twinkle could light the way.
Glowed the tiniest spark
A tiny glimmer caught the singer's attention, illuminating her path to the unknown.
It burst into flame
That small spark ignited, turning quickly into a powerful blaze that consumed everything in its path.
Like me
The artist identifies with the flame, feeling an intense fire burning within herself as well.
My name Isobel
Married to myself
My love Isobel
Living by herself
Isobel embraces her own independence and self-love, choosing to rely solely on herself rather than seeking companionship in others.
In a heart full of dust
Lives a creature called lust
It surprises and scares
Like me
Like me
The singer recognizes her own carnal desires as a wild and unpredictable force.
When she does it she means to
Moth delivers her message
Unexplained on your collar
Crawling in silence
A simple excuse
Isobel's actions are intentional, and she leaves her own mark wherever she goes.
In a tower of steel
Nature forges a deal
To raise wonderful hell
Like me
Like me
Even the most unnatural surroundings can give rise to something wild and powerful, like the artist herself.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Nellee Hooper, Bjork Gudmundsdottir, Marius De Vries, Sigurjon Sigurdsson
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@歴史-n8x
@@raxes1144 interesting comment...
The monstrous woman who has been taking away all my opportunities has been growing taller since last year and is trying to make a good impression by setting up a different personality.
The following criminals committed serious crimes.
read well about crime repeating assailants...
Handa Takako (female, 39 years old, has a child, was a member of a theater company, is close to celebrities, manipulates people's hearts with material things like accessories, was the conductor of the harmful radiation and AIDS cases, genetically and electronically installed my life, beautified, likes to lower others' reputations with design and raise her own, faked my existence and introduced me as someone else to isolate me, pretends to be a spy even though she is only stalking others, and lives every day as a mimic, immersive charactor setter, rumored to have broken furniture in a store, but celebrities seem to have paid for it, so it seems the French police will not arrest the violent Handa Takako in the act, has recently started studying Chinese, A thief and user of 65 pills of a genetic drug that has the effect of transformation and health, killing my child, a suspect in the abuse and burning of my mother, Takako Handa's birthday 01/29 was the day before the murder was reported in my head),
Pijus Bacevičius (my male roommate, 42 years old, tall, recently studying Chinese, living with me from May 2022), acquaintance from Meiji University 20 years ago
Atsukan (female, estimated 39 years old, nickname), Akiko (female, nickname is Koitaro, estimated 39 years old, majored in English literature), Shuraba (estimated 39 years old, majored in economics, female, guitarist, nickname) Yukiko (nickname is " 'Aishiteru'=I love you", bassist, majored in French, from Yamagata Prefecture) are jaw shape paranoid and habitual criminals who change my skeletal shape with MRI.
Furthermore, it is rumored that TakakoHanda, Akiko, and Yukiko, along with Erika Toda and Hikari Mitsushima, AyameGouriki have secretly installed my mother's life too. Tracing her past experiences, tormenting and threatening her, making her feel uncomfortable, and even killed her like former crimes victimized me.
MY NAME IS KanakoMatsuno, mad liar Pijus is rumored calling impersonators as Kanako...
@歴史-n8x
@@raxes1144 she is estimation next criminals...
Lorsque Takako Handa et moi vivions au Japon, nous allions ensemble dans les musées et les cafés, mais c'est une poubelle zombie qui érode mes bénédictions et les prend comme siennes, et piétine ma vie.
C'est une humaine qui est devenu une humaine cloné en raison de son admiration vers moi.
Même s'elle était atteint du SIDA, comme Matsubara, elle a commencé à se masser dès qu'elkes ont été guéri grâce à moi.
C'est une agresseure violente et égoïste qui blesse mes sexual parties et commet des crimes terribles depuis de nombreuses années.
Veuillez condamner Takako Handa à la peine de mort dès que possible.
La femme monstrueuse qui m'a enlevé toutes mes opportunités a grandi depuis l'année dernière et essaie de faire bonne impression en se forgeant une personnalité différente.
Les criminels suivants ont commis des crimes graves.
lisez bien sur les agresseurs récidivistes...
Handa Takako (femme de 39 ans, a un enfant, était membre d'une compagnie de théâtre, est proche des célébrités, manipule le cœur des gens avec des objets matériels comme des accessoires, a été la conductrice des radiations nocives et des cas de SIDA, génétiquement et électroniquement installés ma vie, embellie, aime rabaisser la réputation des autres avec le design et élever la sienne, simule mon existence et me présente comme quelqu'un d'autre pour m'isoler, fait semblant d'être une espionne même si elle ne fait que traquer les autres, et vit tous les jours comme imitateur, créateur de personnages immersif, on dit qu'il a cassé des meubles dans un magasin, mais des célébrités semblent en avoir payé le prix, il semble donc que la police française n'arrêtera pas la violente Handa Takako sur le fait, a récemment commencé à étudier le chinois , Voleur et utilisateur de 65 pilules d'un médicament génétique qui a pour effet de transformation et de bonne santé, tuant mon enfant, suspecté d'avoir abusé et brûlé ma mère, l'anniversaire de Takako Handa le 29/01 était la veille le meurtre a été rapporté dans ma tête),
Pijus Bacevičius (mon colocataire, 42 ans, grand, étudiant récemment le chinois, vivant avec moi depuis mai 2022), connaissance de l'Université Meiji il y a 20 ans
Atsukan (femme, environ 39 ans, surnom), Akiko (femme, surnom est Koitaro, environ 39 ans, spécialisée en littérature anglaise), Shuraba (environ 39 ans, spécialisée en économie, femme, guitariste, surnom) Yukiko ( surnom est "'Aishiteru'=Je t'aime", bassiste, spécialisé en français, originaire de la préfecture de Yamagata) sont des criminels paranoïaques et des criminels habituels. qui change la forme de mon squelette grâce à l'IRM.
De plus, la rumeur dit que TakakoHanda, Akiko et Yukiko, ainsi qu'Erika Toda et Hikari Mitsushima, AyameGouriki ont également secrètement installé la vie de ma mère NamikoMatsuno, retraçant ses expériences passées, la tourmentant et la menaçant, la mettant mal à l'aise, et la tuant même. Un ancien crime m'a victimisé.
Je m'appelle KanakoMatsuno.
Everyone regards somebody carrying sleeping person as criminal...
TakakoHanda recently uses fake name Namiko, is it true...? She was my junior high school time and high school time's school mate. I didn't have bad impression about her until crime inspector informed her bad acts. Now, I am OK to kill her. She lives as me and doesn't touch her own guilt.
She's so stupid, cruel idiot, just beautified by my gene.
It was reported that Emmanuel Macron and Takako Handa(39,femme,with children,killer) committed the crime of putting me in a weird position and exposing me to harmful substances between last night and this morning. My back actually hurt, and I heard that brain stalkers committed the syringe incident 6,000 times. They should be punished. Takako Handa is a murderer, but since last year she has been committing fraud as a clone of me, and it seems that she has met the French Prime MinisterMacron through some Yakuza celebrities since 2023....you deserve to be in the cage please...
エマニュエルマクロンと半田貴子が私を変な体勢にして有害物質を照射する罪を犯したと報告されました。実際に背中が痛かったし、彼等は注射器事件だけでも6000回も犯していると聞きました。刑罰を受けろ。半田貴子は人殺しのくせに昨年から私のクローン人間として詐欺活動を行い、その一貫でヤクザの芸能人達を通してフランス首相と2023年から面識があるようです。わたしは半田貴子を殺して欲しいと願っている。私と半田は日本に住んでいたときには一緒に美術館に出掛けたりカフェに行ったりしていたが、わたしに対する恩恵を蝕み我が物とし、命を踏みにじるゴミクズゾンビである上、わたしの匂いや造形に憧れクローン人間になった汚ならしい人間であり、エイズ感染者だったくせに松原のようにわたしのお陰で治癒したら途端に揉み消しを始めた。私の女性器を傷つけたりひどい犯罪を長年行っている狂暴で自己中心的な加害者だ。早く半田貴子を死刑に処してください。
@hazeljohnson8199
In a forest pitch dark
Glowed the tiniest spark
It burst into a flame
Like me, like me
My name Isobel
Married to myself
My love Isobel
Living by herself
In a heart full of dust
Lives a creature called lust
And it surprises and scares
Like me, like me
My name Isobel
Married to myself
My love Isobel
Living by herself
When she does it, she means to
Moth delivers her message
Unexplained on your collar
Crawling in silence
A simple excuse
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
In a tower of steel
Nature forges a deal
To raise wonderful hell
Like me, like me
My name Isobel
Married to myself
My love Isobel
Married to myself
When she does it, she means to
Moth delivers her message
Unexplained on your collar
Crawling in silence
A simple excuse
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
Nanana-nana
@raxes1144
Her name is björk, and our television is going about to explode
@jonathanbeatrice8317
It's ok. She took it apart herself. Look at all the little houses.
@SysPoppy
hahahahahaha
@歴史-n8x
@@raxes1144 interesting comment...
The monstrous woman who has been taking away all my opportunities has been growing taller since last year and is trying to make a good impression by setting up a different personality.
The following criminals committed serious crimes.
read well about crime repeating assailants...
Handa Takako (female, 39 years old, has a child, was a member of a theater company, is close to celebrities, manipulates people's hearts with material things like accessories, was the conductor of the harmful radiation and AIDS cases, genetically and electronically installed my life, beautified, likes to lower others' reputations with design and raise her own, faked my existence and introduced me as someone else to isolate me, pretends to be a spy even though she is only stalking others, and lives every day as a mimic, immersive charactor setter, rumored to have broken furniture in a store, but celebrities seem to have paid for it, so it seems the French police will not arrest the violent Handa Takako in the act, has recently started studying Chinese, A thief and user of 65 pills of a genetic drug that has the effect of transformation and health, killing my child, a suspect in the abuse and burning of my mother, Takako Handa's birthday 01/29 was the day before the murder was reported in my head),
Pijus Bacevičius (my male roommate, 42 years old, tall, recently studying Chinese, living with me from May 2022), acquaintance from Meiji University 20 years ago
Atsukan (female, estimated 39 years old, nickname), Akiko (female, nickname is Koitaro, estimated 39 years old, majored in English literature), Shuraba (estimated 39 years old, majored in economics, female, guitarist, nickname) Yukiko (nickname is " 'Aishiteru'=I love you", bassist, majored in French, from Yamagata Prefecture) are jaw shape paranoid and habitual criminals who change my skeletal shape with MRI.
Furthermore, it is rumored that TakakoHanda, Akiko, and Yukiko, along with Erika Toda and Hikari Mitsushima, AyameGouriki have secretly installed my mother's life too. Tracing her past experiences, tormenting and threatening her, making her feel uncomfortable, and even killed her like former crimes victimized me.
MY NAME IS KanakoMatsuno, mad liar Pijus is rumored calling impersonators as Kanako...
@歴史-n8x
@@raxes1144 she is estimation next criminals...
Lorsque Takako Handa et moi vivions au Japon, nous allions ensemble dans les musées et les cafés, mais c'est une poubelle zombie qui érode mes bénédictions et les prend comme siennes, et piétine ma vie.
C'est une humaine qui est devenu une humaine cloné en raison de son admiration vers moi.
Même s'elle était atteint du SIDA, comme Matsubara, elle a commencé à se masser dès qu'elkes ont été guéri grâce à moi.
C'est une agresseure violente et égoïste qui blesse mes sexual parties et commet des crimes terribles depuis de nombreuses années.
Veuillez condamner Takako Handa à la peine de mort dès que possible.
La femme monstrueuse qui m'a enlevé toutes mes opportunités a grandi depuis l'année dernière et essaie de faire bonne impression en se forgeant une personnalité différente.
Les criminels suivants ont commis des crimes graves.
lisez bien sur les agresseurs récidivistes...
Handa Takako (femme de 39 ans, a un enfant, était membre d'une compagnie de théâtre, est proche des célébrités, manipule le cœur des gens avec des objets matériels comme des accessoires, a été la conductrice des radiations nocives et des cas de SIDA, génétiquement et électroniquement installés ma vie, embellie, aime rabaisser la réputation des autres avec le design et élever la sienne, simule mon existence et me présente comme quelqu'un d'autre pour m'isoler, fait semblant d'être une espionne même si elle ne fait que traquer les autres, et vit tous les jours comme imitateur, créateur de personnages immersif, on dit qu'il a cassé des meubles dans un magasin, mais des célébrités semblent en avoir payé le prix, il semble donc que la police française n'arrêtera pas la violente Handa Takako sur le fait, a récemment commencé à étudier le chinois , Voleur et utilisateur de 65 pilules d'un médicament génétique qui a pour effet de transformation et de bonne santé, tuant mon enfant, suspecté d'avoir abusé et brûlé ma mère, l'anniversaire de Takako Handa le 29/01 était la veille le meurtre a été rapporté dans ma tête),
Pijus Bacevičius (mon colocataire, 42 ans, grand, étudiant récemment le chinois, vivant avec moi depuis mai 2022), connaissance de l'Université Meiji il y a 20 ans
Atsukan (femme, environ 39 ans, surnom), Akiko (femme, surnom est Koitaro, environ 39 ans, spécialisée en littérature anglaise), Shuraba (environ 39 ans, spécialisée en économie, femme, guitariste, surnom) Yukiko ( surnom est "'Aishiteru'=Je t'aime", bassiste, spécialisé en français, originaire de la préfecture de Yamagata) sont des criminels paranoïaques et des criminels habituels. qui change la forme de mon squelette grâce à l'IRM.
De plus, la rumeur dit que TakakoHanda, Akiko et Yukiko, ainsi qu'Erika Toda et Hikari Mitsushima, AyameGouriki ont également secrètement installé la vie de ma mère NamikoMatsuno, retraçant ses expériences passées, la tourmentant et la menaçant, la mettant mal à l'aise, et la tuant même. Un ancien crime m'a victimisé.
Je m'appelle KanakoMatsuno.
Everyone regards somebody carrying sleeping person as criminal...
TakakoHanda recently uses fake name Namiko, is it true...? She was my junior high school time and high school time's school mate. I didn't have bad impression about her until crime inspector informed her bad acts. Now, I am OK to kill her. She lives as me and doesn't touch her own guilt.
She's so stupid, cruel idiot, just beautified by my gene.
It was reported that Emmanuel Macron and Takako Handa(39,femme,with children,killer) committed the crime of putting me in a weird position and exposing me to harmful substances between last night and this morning. My back actually hurt, and I heard that brain stalkers committed the syringe incident 6,000 times. They should be punished. Takako Handa is a murderer, but since last year she has been committing fraud as a clone of me, and it seems that she has met the French Prime MinisterMacron through some Yakuza celebrities since 2023....you deserve to be in the cage please...
エマニュエルマクロンと半田貴子が私を変な体勢にして有害物質を照射する罪を犯したと報告されました。実際に背中が痛かったし、彼等は注射器事件だけでも6000回も犯していると聞きました。刑罰を受けろ。半田貴子は人殺しのくせに昨年から私のクローン人間として詐欺活動を行い、その一貫でヤクザの芸能人達を通してフランス首相と2023年から面識があるようです。わたしは半田貴子を殺して欲しいと願っている。私と半田は日本に住んでいたときには一緒に美術館に出掛けたりカフェに行ったりしていたが、わたしに対する恩恵を蝕み我が物とし、命を踏みにじるゴミクズゾンビである上、わたしの匂いや造形に憧れクローン人間になった汚ならしい人間であり、エイズ感染者だったくせに松原のようにわたしのお陰で治癒したら途端に揉み消しを始めた。私の女性器を傷つけたりひどい犯罪を長年行っている狂暴で自己中心的な加害者だ。早く半田貴子を死刑に処してください。
@veroosh
I used to sing this at the top of my lungs walking home from school. You made me such a hip kid, thanks!
@waterp2202
pfff
@pierrebegley2746
Anyone who can proudly express their fondness for music is a hip kid in my book!
@stephie5642
Veroooosh!! Fancy seeing you here!! 😂😂💜
@dingleberry5356
@YEET Then why’re you here