M3  1996

By ???


"[unknown title]"


The Q: "Tell me about 'Hyper-Ballad'. Why do you talk about having to
throw things off a cliff - car-parts, bottles and cutlery - just so that
you can "feel happier to be safe up here with you". What does that 
mean?"

Bjork: "Well, It's about when you fall in love, you never know that this 
might be the last time you will fall in love in your life, so it becomes 
very precious to you. And you become overprotective. So everytime you 
meet the person you love, you only show your goodside to the person, you
make sure they never see your bad side, so you can keep this love.

It used to happen to all my friends. They're always: "Hi honey" always 
sweet like this to the one.

In about three years, the "bag" behind their back is too heavy, so they 
hoave to go get rid of all the bag so they can continue to be sweet. 
They are agressive, but only when away from the person they love, so 
they can come back and they have no more bag. And they go: "Hi honey, 
how are you?" I think alot of people do this. With normal friends, you 
can show all your sides. Like with with your best friend, you can be 
humorous, insane, protective, a prankster, sweet or you can be sad, all 
in the same day. But with a lover, you are just very sweet. You keep all 
the energy behind your back. And I think you do this when you fall in 
love. You split your character into two: the dark and the bright. And 
you only show the bright. So "Hyper-Ballad" is Hyper and Ballad. The 
verse is the dark side and the chorus is the bright side.

The chorus is I'm here with you, and it's only me and you. And then you 
have to go and mmmmmmmmm [makes a deep guttural growling sound]. Because 
everybody has a darkside, everyone."