Jenny Hval - Blood Flight lyrics
[Jenny Hval - Blood Flight lyrics]
I carefully rearranged my senses
So they could have a conversation
Taught them to switch places
From each pore in my
Skin grew shimmering eyes
And fingerprints filled the eye
The eye sockets
From the ears grew two tongues
And I sang for people passing a strange song
Told them stories without moving my lips
Mouth half-open, still
They assumed the words came from themselves
These unfamiliar thoughts
And I sang to them "Ah ah ah, ah ah ah
Ah ah ah, ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah
Oh oh oh, ooh ooh"
I sang to them ooh
Such is the speech of the body
The ribs painted their fingernails
Black, of course
And on the edges of the cunt
Grew little teeth
The clitoris, that great sphinx
Opened it's eye
So many blind years, acting Oedipus
So many blind years, acting Oedipus
Meanwhile, the vocal cords were listening
For the wind, the wind howl!
The wind howl, howl howling
Whispering a familiar language of breath
Secret tales for them to learn
Then from my veins came a strange itching
And I felt a pull through the shoulder blades
I should have seen it coming!
Huh, the blood was itching
And etched a hole at the nape of the neck
And it flew out into the night
Like a long, red ribbon to the sky!
Into the sky
And up we went, blood and I
Spread over the city
The dark sky lay against my skin so close
Like an eyelid like an eyelid
Like an eyelid like an eyelid
Like an eyelid like an eye
So they could have a conversation
Taught them to switch places
From each pore in my
Skin grew shimmering eyes
And fingerprints filled the eye
The eye sockets
From the ears grew two tongues
And I sang for people passing a strange song
Told them stories without moving my lips
Mouth half-open, still
They assumed the words came from themselves
These unfamiliar thoughts
And I sang to them "Ah ah ah, ah ah ah
Ah ah ah, ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah
Oh oh oh, ooh ooh"
I sang to them ooh
Such is the speech of the body
The ribs painted their fingernails
Black, of course
And on the edges of the cunt
Grew little teeth
The clitoris, that great sphinx
Opened it's eye
So many blind years, acting Oedipus
So many blind years, acting Oedipus
Meanwhile, the vocal cords were listening
For the wind, the wind howl!
The wind howl, howl howling
Whispering a familiar language of breath
Secret tales for them to learn
Then from my veins came a strange itching
And I felt a pull through the shoulder blades
I should have seen it coming!
Huh, the blood was itching
And etched a hole at the nape of the neck
And it flew out into the night
Like a long, red ribbon to the sky!
Into the sky
And up we went, blood and I
Spread over the city
The dark sky lay against my skin so close
Like an eyelid like an eyelid
Like an eyelid like an eyelid
Like an eyelid like an eye