I know I have blogged before about the Icelandic song "Svefn-g-Englar" and how powerful it is. But I just can't give it up or give it credit (there are no words to) for the amazing transformation it can have over your mood, over your psyche. NME magazine writes about the group (Sigur Ros) behind the song: "...so quiet, so shakily fragile, it feels criminal to breathe at the same time as jón þór birgisson sings."
The English words go like this:
Im Here Again
Inside You
Its So Good Staying Here
But I Stay A Short While
I Float Around In Underwater Hibernation
In A Hotel Connected To The Electricity Board And Nourishing
Tyoowoohoo
But The Wait Makes Me Uneasy I Kick The Fragility Away
And Shout I Have To Go - Help
Tyoowoohoo
I Explode Out And The Peace Is Gone
Bathed In New Light
I Cry And I Cry - Disconnected
A Ruined Brain Put On Breasts
And Fed By Sleepwalkers
Inside You
Its So Good Staying Here
But I Stay A Short While
I Float Around In Underwater Hibernation
In A Hotel Connected To The Electricity Board And Nourishing
Tyoowoohoo
But The Wait Makes Me Uneasy I Kick The Fragility Away
And Shout I Have To Go - Help
Tyoowoohoo
I Explode Out And The Peace Is Gone
Bathed In New Light
I Cry And I Cry - Disconnected
A Ruined Brain Put On Breasts
And Fed By Sleepwalkers
No song has ever so wonderfully matched word with music to make an eerily beautiful echo of just what life feels like sometimes...and if ever a song sounded like it came straight from a dream "Svefn-g-Englar" is the one!
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