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While you are away
My heart comes undone
Slowly unravels
In a ball of yarn
The devil collects it
With a grin
Our love
In a ball of yarn
He'll never return it
So when you come back
We'll have to make new love
He'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
While you are away
My heart comes undone
Slowly unravels
In a ball of yarn
The devil collects it
With a grin
Our love, our love
In a ball of yarn
He'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
He'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
Oh he'll, he'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
He'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
My heart comes undone
Slowly unravels
In a ball of yarn
The devil collects it
With a grin
Our love
In a ball of yarn
He'll never return it
So when you come back
We'll have to make new love
He'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
While you are away
My heart comes undone
Slowly unravels
In a ball of yarn
The devil collects it
With a grin
Our love, our love
In a ball of yarn
He'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
He'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
Oh he'll, he'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
He'll never return it
When you come back
We'll have to make new love
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My take on this song is that, obviously, it deals with a long distance realtionship. Her (for the sake of Björk writing this) love falls apart while her partner is away. Her love for this person becomes "strands"; strands of which can connect the two over their distance. However, the devil (could perhaps be the devil himself, conflicts, or another lover) steals these strands (mischeviously). He doesn't plan on giving them back- signifying a loss of innocence or something irreplaceable. And this is where my interpretation differs from, I'm sure, many of those around me. When she says "we'll have to make new love" she could mean she wants to be with the partner again, and restrengthen their love. But it could also mean she wants to make "new love" with someone else, telling them both to move on. The strands