History of Touches
Bjork Lyrics
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To express my love for you
Stroke your skin and feel you
Naked I can feel all of you
At the same moment
I wake you up in the night
Feeling this is our last time together
We've been together
Being here at the same time
Every single touch we ever touch each other
Every single fuck we had together
Is in a wondrous time lapse
With us here here at this moment
The history of touches
Every single archive
Compressed into a second
All with us here as I wake you up
Björk’s song “History of Touches” is a deeply intimate, sensual exploration of the fragility and temporality of human relationships. The song begins with the singer waking up her lover in the middle of the night to express her love. She muses on the fullness of this moment, feeling him naked under her touch and experiencing every moment they’ve ever shared compressed into a single moment. This sense of heightened awareness and timelessness also carries an undercurrent of melancholy, as the singer senses that this may be their last time together.
Björk uses vivid, tactile language to create an atmosphere of intense physicality and emotional vulnerability. The singer “strokes” and “feels” her lover’s skin, and reflects on “every single touch we ever touch each other/Every single fuck we had together.” The song’s overarching theme of history and memory is also conveyed through the image of an “archive,” with all of their experiences compressed into a single second. By juxtaposing the intensity of the moment with a sense of transience and irreversibility, “History of Touches” creates a powerful, bittersweet meditation on the nature of human connection and the importance of cherishing every fleeting moment.
Line by Line Meaning
I wake you up in the middle of the night
I want to share my love for you at this moment
To express my love for you
I want to communicate my love
Stroke your skin and feel you
I am touching and feeling your skin
Naked I can feel all of you
I can feel your entire body as you are naked
At the same moment
I am experiencing everything all at once
Feeling this is our last time together
I sense that this might be our last moment together
Therefore sensing all the moments
I am experiencing all the time we have spent together
We've been together
We have shared many moments
Being here at the same time
We are both present in this moment
Every single touch we ever touch each other
Every time we have touched each other is here
Every single fuck we had together
Every time we had sex is here
Is in a wondrous time lapse
All of these moments exist in a magical time warp
With us here here at this moment
We are both here in the present
The history of touches
All of our physical interactions
Every single archive
Every moment is remembered
Compressed into a second
All of these moments exist in one moment
All with us here as I wake you up
All of these memories are here as I wake you up
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Bj�rk Gudmundsdottir
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KELEO2000
I wake you up
In the middle of the night
To express my love for you
Stroke your skin and feel you
Naked I can feel all of you
At the same moment
I wake you up
In the night feeling
This is our last time together
Therefore sensing all the moments
We’ve been together
Being here at the same time
Every single touch
We ever touch each other
Every single fuck
We had together
Is in a wondrous time lapse
With us here at this moment
The history of touches
Every single archive
Compressed into a second
All with us here as I wake you up
Julian yepes Angel
A juxtaposition in fate
Find our mutual coordinates
Moments of clarity are so rare
I better document this
Across the view is fears
All that matters is
Who is open-chested
And who has coagulated
Who can share and
Who has shot down the chances?
Show me emotional respect, oh respect, oh respect
And I have emotional needs, oh needs, oh ooh
I wish to synchronize our feelings, our feelings, oh ooh
What is it that I have
That makes me feel your pain?
Like milking a stone
To get you to say it, and
Who is open?
And who has shut up
And if one feels closed
How does one stay open?
We have emotional needs, oh needs, oh needs, oh ooh
I only wish to synchronize our feelings, our feelings, ooh
I'll show some emotional respect, oh respect, oh ooh
A juxtaposition in fate
Find our mutual coordinates
ex92
I wake you up in the middle of the night
To express my love for you
Stroke your skin and feel you
Naked I can feel all of you
At the same moment
I wake you up in the night
Feeling this is our last time together
Therefore sensing all the moments
We've been together
Being here at the same time
Every single touch we ever touch each other
Every single fuck we had together
Is in a wondrous time lapse
With us here here at this moment
The history of touches
Every single archive
Compressed into a second
All with us here as I wake you up
Steve Graham
I don't know why, but the beats in this song make me think of something flickering in malfunction, trying to absorb any vital energy in order to stay alive, trying to stand up but not being able to and crumbling down, then gradually dwindling out of weakness until it's completely dematerialized and non-existent.
Paweł Cech
i feel like it's somehow a synth made of disorted choirs from vespertine and combined with your view, whole concept is incredibly saddening.
Seagreentangerine
...related to Bjork's personal life, the track is all about disintegration of what went before...
҉sky
i can pretty much calculate how the instrumental was made. its just a slowed down sample (or synth) with a really low transient envelope, this is just how ableton processes the speed. it can come up with some really cool sound if you play with it for a while.
Valentino Miller
What do you mean "I don't know why"? The music is exactly as you describe it. It's the glitches of the music that conjure this image.
Buried
“This is our last time together.” Even though I’ve heard this song many times that line for some reason always makes me feel such deep sadness in my chest.
Esme Esmeralda
Same, it truly encapsulates the loss of love
Loose_System9699
burial hehehe hiii :3
Buried
@Loose_System9699 ;3
Utopia *
The duration of this MASTERPIECE is a great example of “quality over quantity”