This song is one of the most strongest songs I've ever heard - and one of the strongest music videos I've ever witnessed.
It seems to me that she really wants away from all the world and wants to focus on nature. In the video, she wears very "hippy" clothes and almost seems that of American Indian descent. She's trying to say that probably her mother is superficial. Her mom has cucumbers on her eyes while getting pampered and just laying around. She wants to be one with the nature, as she has an eye drawn on her palm, the usually egyptian/Native American symbol of all knowing. She wants her mother to embrace her and actually care.
Interesting... But Karin's mother died in 2006. The Knife song "We Share Our Mother's Health" was written just after her death and deals with losing the connection to your heritage through a parent's death. I doubt Karin would make casual slanderous comments about her mother in this song.
"on the seventh day i rest
for a minute or two
then back on my feet and cry for you"
Interesting... But Karin's mother died in 2006. The Knife song "We Share Our Mother's Health" was written just after her death and deals with losing the connection to your heritage through a parent's death. I doubt Karin would make casual slanderous comments about her mother in this song.
"on the seventh day i rest
for a minute or two
then back on my feet and cry for you"
This line makes me think she's still grieving for her mother in between raising her children and carrying on her day to day activities.
This line makes me think she's still grieving for her mother in between raising her children and carrying on her day to day activities.
The first verse is from her daughter's perspective - as with many Fever Ray songs, the child's perspective is often represented - the daughter is perhaps fascinated by Australia and maybe has books on it and talks about it constantly in the way kids become obsessed so wholly with things.
The next verse is I think Karin fantasising about growing up all over again from childhood and and wondering what path her life could have take a turn had she chosen a different course.
The theme's of age and alternate perspectives are all over this album. The video for "Seven" shows Karin as an old woman still looking after 'children' (the farm animals) as though she see's no end to the demands on her time by 'underlings'. The clip for this song is less directly Native American influenced than it is any kind of tribal person from any ancient culture. Her character enters a domestic setting and commands the water in the pool to bubble and leap on her command as though she sees herself as far removed from simple domesticity and her connection to the earth has strengthened since bringing two children into the world. Domesticity/tired mum with kids at her feet is a somewhat enforced lifestyle so she feels like a stranger in that world.
This song is one of the most strongest songs I've ever heard - and one of the strongest music videos I've ever witnessed.
It seems to me that she really wants away from all the world and wants to focus on nature. In the video, she wears very "hippy" clothes and almost seems that of American Indian descent. She's trying to say that probably her mother is superficial. Her mom has cucumbers on her eyes while getting pampered and just laying around. She wants to be one with the nature, as she has an eye drawn on her palm, the usually egyptian/Native American symbol of all knowing. She wants her mother to embrace her and actually care.
Interesting... But Karin's mother died in 2006. The Knife song "We Share Our Mother's Health" was written just after her death and deals with losing the connection to your heritage through a parent's death. I doubt Karin would make casual slanderous comments about her mother in this song. "on the seventh day i rest for a minute or two then back on my feet and cry for you"
Interesting... But Karin's mother died in 2006. The Knife song "We Share Our Mother's Health" was written just after her death and deals with losing the connection to your heritage through a parent's death. I doubt Karin would make casual slanderous comments about her mother in this song. "on the seventh day i rest for a minute or two then back on my feet and cry for you"
This line makes me think she's still grieving for her mother in between raising her children and carrying on her day to day activities.
This line makes me think she's still grieving for her mother in between raising her children and carrying on her day to day activities.
The first verse is from her daughter's perspective - as with many Fever Ray songs, the child's perspective is often represented - the daughter is perhaps fascinated by Australia and maybe has books on it and talks about it constantly in the way kids become obsessed so wholly with things.
The next verse is I think Karin fantasising about growing up all over again from childhood and and wondering what path her life could have take a turn had she chosen a different course.
The theme's of age and alternate perspectives are all over this album. The video for "Seven" shows Karin as an old woman still looking after 'children' (the farm animals) as though she see's no end to the demands on her time by 'underlings'. The clip for this song is less directly Native American influenced than it is any kind of tribal person from any ancient culture. Her character enters a domestic setting and commands the water in the pool to bubble and leap on her command as though she sees herself as far removed from simple domesticity and her connection to the earth has strengthened since bringing two children into the world. Domesticity/tired mum with kids at her feet is a somewhat enforced lifestyle so she feels like a stranger in that world.