Imagine the most powerful and fantastic natural force that generates sound and you probably think of thunderstorms.
Björk harnesses lightning to make this song and app : the Bassline is the sound of an electrical discharge created by a Tesla coil forming a leaping musical pattern — the arpeggio.
As the vocal arrangement and lyrics yearn for miracles, the basslin teeters between musical and natural sound, and between heard sound and felt vibration.
The lyrics of thunderbolt are saturated by words of longing, desire, craving, need, hunger, wish. Björk’s desire is for lightning shocks, for waves to strike her, for the storm to revive her — to be in "universal intimacy" with nature’s powerful forces in her craving for miracles ;
The most dangerous of natural forces, and the grandest of natural sound producers is lightning —heard in the baseline of thunderbolt.
Lyrics (For the morons that don't understand what she's saying)
Quote:
Stirring at waters edge
Cold froth on my twig
My mind in whirls
Wanders around desire
May I, can I or have I too often
Craving miracles
May I, can I or have I too often now
Craving miracles
Craving miracles
No one imagines the light shock I need
And I’ll never know
From whose hands deeply humble
Dangerous gifts as such to mine come
May I, should I or have I too often
Craving miracles
May I, can I or have I too often
Craving miracles
Craving miracles
My romantic gene is dominant
And it hungers for union
Universal intimacy
All embracing
May I, should I or have I too often
Craved miracles
May I, can I or have I too often
Craved miracles
Crave
Waves irregularly striking
Wind stern in my face
Thunderstorm come
Scrape these barnacles off me !
May I, may I or should I too often
Crave miracles
May I or should I or have I too often
All my body parts are one
As lightning hits my spine
Sparkling
Prime runs through me
Revive my wish
Inviolable
May I, can I or have I too often
Craving miracles
May I, can I, should I or have I too often
Craving miracles
Not only did she write the song on her own, she produced it, made the choir arrangements and also made the teslacoil bassline + the beat.
It's easily one of the best songs off of the album.
