Sweet Intuition
Bjork Lyrics

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close your eyes
listen closely
all that you've learnt
try to forget it

fuck logic
fuck logic
bravo to instinct

and sweet intuition

(Icelandic)

what makes you tick?
try to remember
all that you've learnt
try to forget it

believe in believing
believe in instinct
and sweet intuition

(Icelandic)

and inside we're all still wet
yearning and longing
repeat after me

fuck logic
fuck logic
bravo to instinct
and sweet intuition
sweet intuition honey
sweet intuition
sweet
sweet intuition honey
sweet

(Icelandic)

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Björk's song "Sweet Intuition" encourage listeners to let go of any preconceived notions or learned behaviors and embrace their instincts and natural intuition. The repetition of "fuck logic" emphasizes the need to disregard rational thinking and embrace the unknown. The lyrics also suggest that our true selves are raw and vulnerable, symbolized by the line "and inside we're all still wet." The lyrics encourage listeners to embrace this vulnerability and let their instincts guide them.

The use of Icelandic in the song adds to the sense of rawness and authenticity. The language is not widely spoken and gives the song a unique, otherworldly feel. The repetition of "sweet intuition" at the end of the song reinforces the message and encourages listeners to trust their instincts.

Line by Line Meaning

close your eyes
Shut your eyes and clear your mind.

listen closely
Pay attention and focus on what you hear.

all that you've learnt
Forget everything you've been taught.

try to forget it
Make a conscious effort to let go of preconceptions and biases.

fuck logic
Don't rely on reason or conventional thinking.

bravo to instinct
Applaud intuition and gut feelings.

and sweet intuition
Embrace the power of intuition and trust your inner voice.

(Icelandic)
Untranslatable Icelandic phrase.

what makes you tick?
What motivates and drives you?

try to remember
Recall your true self and what you really want.

believe in believing
Have faith in the power of belief.

believe in instinct
Trust your natural impulses and inclinations.

and inside we're all still wet
We all have a raw, primal nature beneath our surface exterior.

yearning and longing
Feeling a strong desire or craving for something.

repeat after me
Say the same thing I am saying.

sweet intuition honey
Intuition is a beautiful and natural thing.

sweet intuition
Intuition is a positive force to be celebrated.

sweet
Savor the sweetness of intuition.

sweet intuition honey
Intuition is as sweet as honey.

sweet
Savor the sweetness of life.

(Icelandic)
Untranslatable Icelandic phrase.

Contributed by Alyssa H. Suggest a correction in the comments below.

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

ebrahim sari

3y↑18

[Verse 1]
Close your eyes
Listen closely
All that you've learnt
Try to forget it

[Chorus 1]
(Sweet intuition) Fuck logic, fuck logic
(Sweet intuition) Bravo to instinct
(Sweet intuition) And sweet intuition
(Sweet intuition)

[Verse 2]
What makes you tick?
Try to remember
All that you've learnt
Try to forget it

[Chorus 2]
(Sweet intuition) Believe in believing
(Sweet intuition) Believe in instinct
(Sweet intuition) And sweet intuition
(Sweet intuition)

[Post-Chorus]
Sweet intuition
Sweet intuition
Sweet intuition
Sweet intuition

[Verse 3]
And inside
We're all still wet
Yearning and longing
Repeat after me:

[Chorus 1]
(Sweet intuition) Fuck logic, fuck logic
(Sweet intuition) Bravo to instinct
(Sweet intuition) And sweet intuition
(Sweet intuition) Sweet intuition, honey
(Sweet intuition) Sweet intuition
(Sweet, sweet intuition) Sweet, sweet intuition, honey
(Sweet) Sweet

[Post-Chorus]
Sweet intuition
Sweet intuition

All comments from YouTube:

Ken Sasaki

3y↑38

I feel like I'm traveling through space while I'm listening to this song... A hidden gem from Björk's awesome discography !

baron corcoran

1y↑13

hands down one of the most beautiful songs ever created.

ebrahim sari

3y↑18

Olivia M

7y↑36

Bjork is AMAZING!!!! She has always been way ahead of her time and as long as people like me survive, she will ALWAYS be appreciated !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Olivia M

@Villa MEDJ To each his own. :)

Olivia M

@Villa MEDJ Yeah.... what was the caliber of the gun held to your head to make you listen to her again? lol :P

Olivia M

@Villa MEDJ ok.......

Alyssa Graves

10y↑57

I love this beautiful song. And I agree, logic is overrated :)

Shattertry

8y↑6

+Alyssa Graves Intuition is still some kind of logic, just far more complex and elusive than mathematical logic, for which we tend to give too much credit, I agree.

Jon Carr

3y↑2

The term or the rapper?

kenny198807

2y↑9

Just when I think I heard it all, I hear this. One of my Fav's now

で作成されました2020

what about Nu flyver anton, Amphibian, Charlene, Scary

kenny198807

2y↑1

@で作成されました2020 Love those also, especially Scary....

Annabel Blabla

12y↑11

her voice is the most perfect thing <3

Katt

1y↑3

Since 12 years, I am waiting for the song to be just 2 minutes longer, some ecstatic drums supported by the horn in the background.

rainydays359

7y↑8

This is simply magical <333

Leo H

8y↑6

merveilleuse, belle, a la voix d'ange j love her she is magic

Jan Tyc

8y↑34

it helps me a lot while i needed help to make a right decision
warmth to bjork, thank you

llezzamagu1

8y↑11

THIS IS GREAT!

1missraver

10y↑2

Love this trak
Bjork Rocks <3

Graham John

11y↑16

sweet song. isn't Björk very photogenic — it took me a long time to realise that.

Dutch Anarchist

2y↑2

Like a lighthouse in a rough sea. Makes you not fear death.

DaveRave (AKA DAVE GØRDØN)

5y↑6

Would love to see either Madonna or Bjork make a mashup of each other's version. Hell they should actually do a duet! Like if she ever goes to Iceland on tour or something like that, that would be a really special thing especially if they did like what Madonna doing which is a residency for like a week or two in major cities around the world and the two could Co line something in Iceland or England even cuz it's not that far. But another thing, they really both have such unique tastes in music and with Madonna's new album it definitely is fitting with a lot of bjork's work. It's very eclectic and very worldly. Madame X is one of her best albums besides ray of light and the orc has always been very Icelandic but also brings in a lot of tribal African sounds and I think that would be a very interesting tour especially if they do a couple Duets together such as Madonna and Bjork singing hyperballad together. It's totally both their style as is Big Time sensuality

Zendrig

14y

Beautiful song. I suggest to follow the link in the sidebar to the PS22 Chorus. These kids delivered a very different but equally beautiful version of this song.

Alexander Thomas

3y↑3

The clarity of this song is soo analogue those organ pipes when they start to kick in.... Sounds like your there with a 300b valve state amp

inkajoo

7y↑23

I was working on a game with a creative partner (with chronic pain) who hated facts and logic, he had a great imagination but he hated anything technical or limiting fact of reality. we had a bad falling out but i think i learned a lot from the experience.

URiTA JAPAN Music Channel URITA 25TH

11y↑2

So Beautiful!!

Gaeilgeoir

13y

Very nice collage! ^_^

Antonio Aguilar

7y↑43

I think logic and intuition should work together, you should not choose only logic or only intuition, but use both in equal parts.

inkajoo

7y↑8

indeed using one or the other too strongly can get you into trouble

Antonio Aguilar

7y↑4

Roger Levy I agree.

glyalkalgunk

7y↑10

thats too much relativism. treat it like they are both separate and unrelated things, not opposite, not puzzle like, nor good or bad. Intuition is subjective, while Logic is concrete.
The music seems to be a fight between those two. The progressive arpegios and the "Fuck LOGIC" freedom voice.
She's tired of far too Logical stuff , she's stucked, so the best way out is to follow your Intuition.

Bitchcraft Witch

6y↑1

Antonio Aguilar yes

Bitchcraft Witch

6y↑1

Rodrigo Davi yes

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Kiki

12y↑2

I know that. I love her music BUT I heard another version where she doesn't sing and it sounds different. I was wondering if anyone has it because I wanted that song as well. Don't get your panties up in a bunch now. :D <3

Russell Moxham

13y

@Gaeilgeoir Actually there are plenty of names like Melkorka and Kormákur that have been in Iceland for centuries and derive from Old Irish because of the Celtic contingent during the Age of Settlement. But you're quite right that Icelandic is not a Celtic language. There are a few words that may have Celtic origins but Icelandic is overwhelmingly Germanic.

Blue Collar Beer Snob

2y↑2

Bravo to instinct!

Russell Moxham

13y↑1

@jovialduke No, it's a Germanic language. Old Icelandic is pretty similar to Old English, without all the loanwords that Old English absorbed from Latin and Greek because of Christianity. And Old Icelandic is really just a tiny stone's throw away from Old Norse, the ancestor of all the mainland Scandinavian languages. Doubtless there is a Celtic influence in Icelandic history, but the language remained overwhelmingly Germanic.

Larissa Børglum

9y↑23

I'm picking up on similarities to "Bedtime Story" by Madonna, which I know Björk co-wrote. (The lyric "Inside, we're all still wet," for example.) I'd like to know more about the connection.

therealglitter808

9y↑20

Ano Nymous This is a slightly re-worked version of original demo song Bjork wrote and submitted to Maddonna that would become "Bedtime Story" according to the wikipedia history of the song "Bedtime Story" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_Story_(Madonna_song)

Justin

6y↑2

Google it

Belfegoreo

38w

I thought she said “inside we’re all silhouettes”.

Matt Thompson

10y↑10

I wonder why she did it twice. I love this version better =)

fossilmusictv

10y↑13

because it is sweeter than the futuristic techno-bubbly one ;-)

Russell Moxham

13y↑2

@phialen I doubt she'd like that description. Hers was a hippy background that drew from cultures around the world, she was drawing musical inspiration from around the world (or the West at least) before she ever came to Britain to pursue her career, and I suspect she would see herself very much as a woman of the world: probably an Icelander first, but then a woman of the world. I don't think being Germanic comes into it, especially since too many people throw that word around for bad reasons.

UlisesAyres

14y↑15

Close your eyes listen closely all that you've learnt try to forget it Fuck logic, fuck logic bravo to instinct and sweet intuition

Gaeilgeoir

13y

@RussMoxham Fascinating! I'll have to look those books up :-D Takk fyrir/Go raibh míle maith agat ;-))

Russell Moxham

13y

@Gaeilgeoir No, munich64 is right on this one. DNA evidence indicates that around 40% of Icelandic women are descended from Celtic (British/Irish) women. (Around 70% of the men descend from Scandinavian men.) It's conceivable that the Icelandic saga tradition drew a lot of inspiration from Ireland, because there was a parallel to it there but not really that much in mainland Scandinavia.

Kiki

12y

Thanks I found it already! :D

Gaeilgeoir

13y

@jovialduke Icelandic is most certainly not Celtic. It's Scandinavian/Norse. The Celts had a minor impact of early Icelandic life, as Irish monks were originally there, but that's all.

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Russell Moxham

13y

@Gaeilgeoir I lived in Iceland and have a degree in Icelandic. I have a copy somewhere of 'Gaelic influence in Iceland: Historical and Literary Contacts: a Survey of Research (Studia islandica)' by a guy called Gísli Sigurðsson. I don't remember what name Melkorka is a version of or whether there's a current version of it in Irish (probably not) but I do remember it's an Irish/Gaelic name. Such names stick out because almost all established Icelandic names are clearly, intelligibly Norse.

Gaeilgeoir

13y

@RussMoxham Thanks for the interesting insights! I didn't know those placenames specifically :-D

Raka(punta)

15y↑11

and inside we're all still wet longing and yearning...

pianoman74

13y↑1

She should consider it a God's gift to be Icelandic. Because she's like most Icelanders, so INCREDIBLY down to earth, and that after all that success! Still feels like the girl next door, which lets her appear so nice to me. Björk involved in some scandals like Janet, Rihanna & Co.? Never witnessed any.

ShonColle

7y↑3

pianoman74 Actually Bjork was involved in a scandal back in the 90s for punching a photographer/paparazzi at an airport so...

rolf speckgens

12y↑4

really cool from 3:12 onwards...

Jose Cardenas

6y↑4

I love the Madonna version a lot better

Mark Wallner

2y↑1

L take

Tiago Pelles

9y↑20

Bjork is amazing, but the version "Bedtime Story" of the Madonna is better.

Joseph

9y↑26

+Tiago Pelles bjork wrote bedtime story as well

Sofia HT

8y↑16

+Tiago Pelles meh would have been better with bjork's vocals

TarantulaCandy

7y↑2

+Maya Meh Madonna is better. had Bjork done bedtime story nobody will give it nearly as much attention.

Digital Ghost

7y↑11

TarantulaCandy Madonna get's more attention because she's always been focused on marketing her image.

TarantulaCandy

7y↑6

+Digital ghost. Madonna gets more Attention because she's Madonna. don't try to give the BS that the rest go the label artist don't work on their image and marketing..Bjork is HUGE on her marketing visuals...she's just not as interesting, and this comes across when they do interviews when all the "props" are gone and you have rely only on yourself..

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Camilo LABABSA

12y

énorme

MiViPi

14y

must...have...this...song!

ROD Val

7y↑65

Madge and Björk have never bashed each other so i don't get why their fans have the need to bash Madonna on the Bedtime Story music video and to bash Björk here.

Digital Ghost

7y↑26

Sadly, people always want to pit female artists against each other.

Timothy P

4y↑18

So many fans love both of these groundbreaking artists. Even with bedtime story, the two artists complemented each other perfectly... madonna took a bjork song and turned it into something very different, more mainstream sounding, while still honoring bjork's vision....i love them both.

Brujita 〈3

2y↑3

@Timothy P i love them both too

Jacob

5y↑3

This is the same philosophy as Human Behavior.

Kiki

12y↑1

Also, there's no need to go calling people names. I am well aware that she sings this song. :)

sofia vasquez

3y↑3

2:58 You didn't have to do her dirty like that! The Possibly Maybe music video has way better moments than this lmaooooo.

Ohlord

15y↑2

I didn't know that photos^^they're beautiful , the song too

Fahad Aljaberi

4y↑1

Is this song found in spotify?

blake

No it's unreleased

lilith anthropocene

@blake it was released on Spotify as a b side for army of me single

AgentM

14y

They are the original lyrics before Madonna recorded it.

ジョン

8y↑3

quiet fireworks...

msq3762

6y↑4

Bjork actually wrote Bedtime Story for Madonna. Remember that before you start bashing her mindlessly...

Eccremocarpus scaber

4y↑2

msq3762 who doesn’t know that?

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Gaeilgeoir

13y

@munich64 That may be, but the Irish monks were the first Europeans to set foot on Iceland.

munich64

13y↑1

@Gaeilgeoir Actually, many of the women first brought to Iceland were Celtic. Norse warriors took slaves from the Irish and Scottish coasts.

Russell Moxham

13y↑2

@pianoman74 Great as she is, 'down to earth' is not a description that immediately leaps to my mind when I think of Björk and many Icelanders see her as they've seen her since the '80s: as a liability, a loose cannon and/or a sacred monster at least as much as down to earth. Few Icelanders had any time for her until The Sugarcubes had success overseas. As for scandals--how about knocking ten shades of shit out of that reporter at the airport a good few years ago?

endre bee

Russell Moxham ... and? The reporter was harassing her. Besides, I don't think that's as much of a scandal as other artists might have.

Russell Moxham

13y

@Gaeilgeoir Actually they're personal names (Kormákur = Cormac; not sure how to render 'Melkorka' in Old or Modern Irish--Meall-? Mil-?) but hey :)

Russell Moxham

13y

@UlisesAyres Hmmm--I for one have always heard it as 'bow to instinct' ;)

Kiki

13y

Does anyone have this songs but without her singing? =]

Tracy Castillo

12y↑1

Lol sorry my cousin got on this account by mistake, um you mean instrumental? Just look up Sweet Intuition Instrumental. If you look it up as SWEET SWEET INTUITION you'll get this version.

hyacinthnights

13y↑2

I'm loving the conversation below lol

Nat Fernan14

8y↑1

maraca culia

11y↑1

what is the year of the photo in the 1:05 ?

Gaeilgeoir

13y

@RussMoxham lol, I'm not familiar with a personal name starting with either...though "mil" means "sweet" ;-)) Do you speak Icelandic?

jovialduke

13y↑2

@phialen not really, icelandic is as celtic as it is germanic, and she looks almost half inuit.

RareLohtxs

why are u so fire. It doesn't make sense

Gaeilgeoir

13y

@RussMoxham lol, that looks like a Google translation :) ...unless you *meant* to say "his thanks aren't on you", haha...How about Fadhb ar bith/no problem ? ;P

Honey Moon

9y↑21

bjork did it better!

Cesar Henrichsen

Wait is that Mylene Farmer?

Jean 54

3y↑2

My god… I miss this bjork so much. I really don’t like the last album. Boring no soul. Bjork , do simple songs please . Pleaseeeee listen this song. Stop your logic.

blake

2y↑3

Utopia wasn't my thing either. Hopefully Fossora returns to a classic Björk sound.

Jean 54

@blake i Hope ^^

Tracy Castillo

12y

Sade like the band?

André Rühling

credo

Kiki

12y

Rightttt your cousin. ;)

yippee

Fk logic

ploperator

8y↑2

The melody on this song is one she's already used before a lot of times. She should put in more effort when it comes to writing music. Less mucking about with blip blop noises and funny clothes and cgi and art installations and all that rubbish.

ploperator

*****
Yes but she recorded it. Same old tune.

Timothy Pullins

7y↑24

This has to be a fucking joke dude hahahaha.

Caalamus

6y↑5

This isn't a proper release. It's a bootleg of something she gave away... to madona of all people. So judging this as though it's some finished project just makes you seem silly.

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