my name isobel : married to myself
my love isobel : living by herself

my name isobel : married to myself
my love isobel : living by herself

in a heart full of dust
lives a creature called lust
it surprises and scares
like me : like me

when she does it she means to
moth delivers her message
unexplained on your collar
crawling in silence
a simple excuse

nana na nana : nana na nana

in a tower of steel
nature forges a deal
to raise wonderful hell
like me : like me

my name isobel : married to myself
my love isobel : living by herself

in a forest pitch-dark
glowed the tiniest spark
it burst into flame
like me : like me

nana na nana : nana na nana
nana na nana : nana na nana

when she does it she means to
moth delivers her message
unexplained on your collar
crawling in silence
a simple excuse

CD1

Isobel was released as the 7th song of the album Post and it was later released as the second single of it in 1995. The song was produced by Björk & Nelle Hooper and lyrics were written by Icelandic poet Sjón. A video directed by Michel Gondry was made for this song

CD2

"Isobel was born in the forest. After the pebbles turned to skyscrapers, she ends up a grown woman living in the city with only instinct as her guide. Isobel dances naked on tables and falls in love with all the wrong people and causes pain. So she escaped and isolated herself. That's why she's called Isobel and not Isabel."

"It's the story of a girl that grows in the middle of the brazilian florest while baby-buildings becomes sky-scrapers. Then suddenly, she see's herself in a whole town full of crafty people. Then she asks for a moth to help so the insect goes cover the mouth of these people."

"There's an epic continuity between 'Human Behaviour', 'Isobel' and 'Bachelorette'. I'm not sure if it's a joke or serious - probably a bit of both. It's basically a character I invented called Isobel.






In 'Human Behaviour', she's a little girl. In 'Isobel', she moves to the big city and big lights. She functions with her intuition wich isn't very good in cities and crashes with a lot of ill-behaved people. So she goes back and trains a lot of moths and sends them back, as messengers of intuition, into the city to people who are not working with their intuition. In 'Bachelorette' she takes over and trees grow over the city. It's part autobiography part storytelling.

There's a side to me that's really casual and that's in them. There's a side to me that's very dramatic and very romantic and there's a side to me that's pretty hardcore. I guess the line of songs were meant to be like an epic, 19th Century novel but at the same time taking the piss. I can be a little too dramatic at times."











































































































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