Clip - Violently Happy

"Violently Happy is about when you're a junkie on exchanging emotion, not at one but at the level 200. That thing. And then the person goes away and you really miss someone. When you're with that person you're really peaceful because you get what you need back and you both give everything you need to give. And that person goes away and all that exchange is not there so you get your kicks elsewhere, you end up running on rooftops in blizzards, drinking 97 tequilas just to feel. You know what I mean. So it starts off really happy then the longer the person's away from you, it starts getting self-destructive."
Bjork i-D, #154, june 1996

VIOLENTLY HAPPY

Since I
met you
this small town
hasn't got room
for my big feelings

Violently happy - 'cause I love you
Violently happy - but you're not here
Violently happy - come calm me down before I get into trouble

I tip-toe down to the shore
stand by the ocean
make it roar at me
and I roar back

Violently happy - 'cause I love you
Violently happy - but you're not here
Violently happy - overemotional
Violently happy - I'll get into trouble real soon if you don't get here BABY

Violently happy - 'cause I love you
Violently happy - I'm aiming too high
Violently happy - it will get me into trouble
Violently happy - I'm driving my car too fast with ecstatic music on

Violently happy - I'm getting too drunk
Violently happy - I'm daring people to jump off roofs with me
only you can calm me down
I'm aiming too high
soothe me