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Björk

Saint

Release date: 24th November 2017

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About This Track

'Saint' by Björk is an alternative track from the album 'Utopia', released in 2017. The lyrics present an intimate, almost intrusive figure, with the speaker imagining care offered in sickness and grief, and insisting on total presence. A recurrent dreamlike set-up turns toward bodily imagery and a sense of being entered, with the address made explicit in the line “She insists on total presence”. The overall mood is devotional but disquieting, poised between tenderness and something more invasive.

"Saint" is a track by Björk, from the album Utopia, released 24th November 2017. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Björk.

About the Artist

Björk

Björk

Lyrics

Saint

[Verse 1]

She always knows when people need stroking

And is attracted to deathbeds and divorces

I dreamt she cared for my dying grandfather

Lying naked face down on his bed

[Verse 2]

She insists on total presence

And knows how to get through to the rest of us

She has entered me thousandfold often

And undone knots at my most awkward

[Refrain 1]

Music, music loves too

[Verse 3]

She reaches out to orphans and refugees

Embraces them with thermal blankets

Her favourite childhood moments

Were at a hospital for the disabled

[Verse 4]

I've seen her offer empathy to widows

She attends funerals of strangers

Her strongest memory

Is feeding children with leprosy

[Refrain 2]

Music heals too

I'm here to defend it

Ambassador

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Track details

From Utopia

2017
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Album
Utopia
Utopia
Björk
24th November 2017
Release year
2017
  1. 1Arisen My Senses (feat. Arca)
    5:00
  2. 2Blissing Me (feat. Arca)
    5:06
  3. 3The Gate (feat. Arca)
    6:34
  4. 4Utopia (feat. Arca)
    4:43
  5. 5Body Memory (feat. Arca)
    9:47
  6. 6Features Creatures
    4:50
  7. 7Courtship (feat. Arca)
    4:45
  8. 8Losss (feat. Arca & Rabit)
    6:51
  9. 9Sue Me (feat. Arca)
    4:58
  10. 10Tabula Rasa (feat. Arca)
    4:42
  11. 11Claimstaker (feat. Arca)
    3:19
  12. 12Paradisia
    1:45
  13. 13Saint (feat. Arca)
    4:41
  14. 14Future Forever (feat. Arca)
    4:47
  15. —Courtship
  16. —Future Forever
  17. —Tabula Rasa
  18. —Saint
  19. —Losss
  20. —Utopia
  21. —Body Memory
  22. —Sue Me
  23. —Claimstaker

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Cornucopia Live
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Fossora
Fossora
2022
Arisen My Senses
2018
Vulnicura (Live)
Vulnicura (Live)
2015
Vulnicura Strings (The Acoustic Version: Strings, Voice and Viola Organista Only)
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2015
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2015

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  1. Notget (Live)Cornucopia Live
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  3. Arisen My Senses (Cornucopia Live)Cornucopia Live
  4. Arisen My Senses (Live)Cornucopia Live
    3:56
  5. Arpeggio (Cornucopia Live)Cornucopia Live
  6. Arpeggio (Live)Cornucopia Live
    1:48
  7. B11*
  8. Berghain
  9. Berghain (remix)
  10. Blissing Me (Cornucopia Live)Cornucopia Live

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Björk
Lyricist
Björk
Producer
Arca, Björk
Engineer
Bart Migal, Bergur Þórisson, Chris Elms
Beatmaker
Arca
Electronics
Arca
Flute
Áshildur Haraldsdóttir, Berglind María Tómasdóttir, Berglind Stefánsdóttir, Björg Brjánsdóttir, Dagný Marinósdóttir, Emilía Rós Sigfúsdóttir, Hafdís Vigfúsdóttir, Melkorka Ólafsdóttir, Pamela de Sensi, Sigríður Hjördis Indriðadóttir, Sólveig Magnúsdóttir,
Flute Arranger
Björk
Mastering Engineer
Mandy Parnell
Mixing Engineer
Marta Salogni
Recording Engineer
Bergur Þórisson
Synthesizer
Arca
Vocal Arranger
Björk
Steinunn Vala Pálsdóttir
, Þuríður Jónsdóttir
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