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In the album booklet, the sub-title for this song is “11 months after”, signifying that this song is about the events dating 11 months after the break up of the relationship between Björk and Matthew Barney.
In a interview with Pitchfork, she said
Pitchfork: It very much does. Towards the end of the record, there is a Buddhist sentiment about the obstacle being the path. You sing, "Don’t remove my pain, it’s my chance to heal." That’s how we figure things out, isn’t it? That the only way out is through, that having things be easier is not helpful in the long run.
When I say that, it might come across that I'm incredibly wise. But it's the other way around. I'm fucked and I'm trying to talk myself into it, like, "Go, girl! You can do it!" It's me advising myself. It's not me knowing it all - not at all. It's just a certain route you just have to go; I went through it.
It’s really hard for me to talk about it. It really is in the lyrics. I’ve never really done lyrics like this, because they’re so teenage, so simple. I wrote them really quickly. But I also spent a long time on them to get them just right. It’s so hard to talk about the subject matter; it’s impossible—I’m sorry. There’s so many songs about that exist this in the world, because music is somehow the perfect medium to express something like this. When I did the interviews about Biophilia, I could talk for four hours about tech and education and science and instruments and pendulums—all the things we did. This one, I couldn’t put any of that stuff on top of it, because it has to be what it is. And I can’t talk about it. It’s not that I don’t want to, I’m not trying to be difficult. It really is all in there.
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