my throat was stuffed
my mouth was sewn up
banned from making noise
i was not heard

all calmly

remove this hindrance
my throat feels stuck
i was not allowed
i was not heard

i was not heard
i was not heard
i was not heard

there is vocal sadness
i was separated
from what i can do
what i’m capable of

need to break up
vicious habits
do something
i haven’t done before

in vow of silence
explore the negative space
around your mouth
it implodes
black hole
with jaw fallen in
in fallen jaw
jaw fallen in
i am not hurt

this tunnel has enabled
thousands of sounds
i thank this trunk
noise pipe

i have followed a path
that took sacrifices
now i sacrifice this scar
can you cut it off

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Mouth Mantra

Crédits

Production : Björk et Arca
Ecriture : Björk et Oddný Eir
Composition : Björk
Programmation : Björk et Arca
Ingénieurs du son : Chris Elms, Frank Arthur Blöndahl Cassata et Bart Migal
Mixage : The Haxan Cloak

Remix

Mouth Mantra (The Haxan Cloak)	6:24	The Haxan Cloak
Mouth Mantra (Strings version)	6:09	Vulnicura Strings

Mouth mantra
the orchestra for vulnicura was unusual in the way that it had 5 cellos 5 violas and 5 violins. ... (most orchestras have around 30 violins, 12 violas and 6 cellos ) this was because i wanted a dark muddy sound, to match the heavyness of sorrow on a heartbreak album . mouth mantra is not about heartbreak though, it is a song i wrote earlier about having to go to a vocal nodule surgery the lyric is about all the moments i have sung and all the high notes my throat has allowed me to sing and the gratitude for that appreciate all the air that has gone through it so in this song, i decided to add to the timbre of the album as a whole and this be where i would make these muddy deep strings as dense as possible and spent months making it more rhythmic, added friction and thick...

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