Mutual Core

I shuffle around the tectonic plates in my chest.
You know I gave it all,
try to match our continents
to change seasonal shift,
to form a mutual core.

As fast as your fingernail grows,
the Atlantic ridge drifts
to counteract distance.
You know I gave it all,
can you hear the effort of the magnetic strife?
Shuffling of columns
to form a mutual core.

This eruption undoes stagnation.
You didn’t know i had it in me,
withheld your love, an unspent capsule.
I didn’t know you had it in you,
you hid the key to our continuity.
I didn’t know you had it in you.
This eruption undoes stagnation.
You didn’t know,
you didn’t know.

What you resist persists, nuance makes heat
to counteract distance
I know you gave it all,
offered me harmony if things were done your way.
My Eurasian plate subsumed,
forming a mutual core

This eruption undoes stagnation.
You didn’t know I had it in me,
withheld your love, an unspent capsule.
I didn’t know you had it in you.
This eruption undoes stagnation
you didn’t know i had it in me
this eruption undoes stagnation
you didn’t know,
you didn’t know”.





music and lyrics by björk
organ arrangement by björk
beat by 16bit, matthew herbert and björk
programmed by 16bit, matthew herbert and björk
choir arrangement by björk
engineered by damian taylor and sveinn kjartansson
mixed by damian taylor and björk
produced by björk