Like a virus needs a body As soft tissue feeds on blood Some day I'll find you, the urge is here Like a mushroom on a tree trunk As the protein transmutates I knock on your skin, and I am in The perfect match, you and me I adapt, contagious You open up, say welcome Like a flame that seeks explosives As gunpowder needs a war I feast inside you, my host is you The perfect match, you and I You fail to resist My crystalline charm Like a virus, patient hunter I'm waiting for you, I'm starving for you My sweet adversary My sweet adversary My sweet adversary
I met Thomas Knak once and talked to him about making this song. I told him it's my favorite song in Björk's catalogue and commented on how incredible it is that it yields such musical depth and complexity but with very few elements (and how that is probably the best example of musical talent you can get from a musician etc etc) and he told me that to record it, he went to a studio where Aerosmith was making something and they didn't even have to change anything because they were taking dozens of channels and he only needed like the half dozen that weren't being used lol
I remember with great pleasure Björk's concert in 2007 in the Huentitán Canyon in Mexico. When she sang her hits using cutting edge instruments like the “Reactable” it blew my mind. She is a genius, she is always several steps ahead of what we hear in the music mainstream.
what makes this song so eerie to me is the piano. The whole album kept the instrumentation so quietly that its hard to hear. But here, the piano is so distinct that it feels like, "why is there this present?" And its presence is what baffles me.
Björk recorded this piano and voice track years before Medúlla. During the recording sessions, Tanya Tagaq recorded a improvisation for Björk and she placed it on top of her old track (this version)
It has no point of comparison with any singer. She found a unique way to sing. By listening to her we can know in which part she is almost smiling with her mischievous face. This woman really broke the mold. Bjork became music. This song is amazing.
