Virus Lyrics

[Chorus 2]
The perfect match, you and I
You fail to resist
My crystalline charm


[Verse 4]
Like a virus, patient hunter
I'm waiting for you, I'm starving for you
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh

[Outro]
My sweet adversary, ooh
My sweet adversary, oh
My sweet adversary

Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh

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Genius Annotation

“Virus” is track #7 on Björk’s album Biophilia.

In this song, Björk talks about a parasitic relationship, in which she is the parasite and her lover is the host.

Knowing Björk, it could also be seen as the parasitic relationship between man and Earth. In that case the song would assume a whole different new meaning…

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Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

What did Björk say about "Virus"?
Genius Answer

i’d been fighting this candida issue in my throat and i had to really change my diet and use different medication and it sort of seems to pop up and its kinda hilarious. It’s like I have this new neighbour that i have to sort of learn to live with. And obviously you know this fungus is inside all of us and it’s never about eliminating it. You have to kind of just live with it.
— Björk

On first hearing the song “virus” might sound like a slow, elegant waltz of lovers, but Björk’s lyrics describe the deadly dependancies between species in the natural world. This is nature deadly and dangerous.

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