Jenny Hval

I'm a house of bones. Skin stretched over walls, a mirror in my mouth Let your golden rays hit my frozen face, a cataract of sound Let your honey drip from your fingertips, O let me have your lips Your lips of gold of whispering the lips My gaze spills you...

First step shine like a silver fox Then light as feathers from a phoenix swing That falls to the ground that I... with quick... It's so... you warm my back 'cause I try to leave this town behind There are fox fur and feathers all over the suburbs And fa...

I have walked this body to the rim of its end I have walked this body to the rim of its end Along my spine, along my spine A sudden swing A swing of skin A skin of wing Out on the rim 

In my dream, you are slippery My interest grows immediately You have seaweed between your fingers, lips and limbs Amphibious, androgynous Amphibious Ninety-eight percent water I try to write love songs But my words remain in my hands And my hands fall...

Self-doubt, it's what I do. This music, this sound, this voice and these words. All that carry "me", it's not writing nor music, fuck, it's certainly not "art." When the boundaries seem unclear we don't have a language That day you fainted, your eyes looked...

She had this dream about a song She was certain that it was about a burial The ritual, beautifully written Even the groove was filled with sadness Every beat went all the way down Into the two holes in the ground It had the most moving chord changes Sh...

I wake and find outside My door a black lake Rippling against the hand The wall behind me A bulging eye I lift and sink with ebb and flow My heart is a black lake Rippling inside my chest The wall between us A bulging embrace I woke to find that I...

I woke and found outside my door A black lake rippling against the hand Its tongues lick the flesh from my bones And replace skin with waves A bulging eye I called into the black lake and dove head Over heels into the water And pulled out my heart from...

I carefully rearranged my senses So they could have a conversation Taught them to switch places; From each pore in my skin grew shimmering eyes! And fingerprints filled the eye sockets From the ears grew two tongues And I sang for people passing a stran...

[Verse 1: Jenny Hval] And sometimes I dream you've left me And I'm so lost I wake up high High on madness A sexual holding pattern Stuck in erotic self-oscillation This landmine of a heart The only one I am a heart I am a heart [Chorus: Jenny Hval]...

Dawn came quiet Dawn came cool The inside of my eyelid Is glazed with honey dew Dawning beauty Is dazzling me The hissing of her body Is pleasure to my ears I can see that she is laying down open The pleasant apple-milk from the breast Luring and e...

Me by your eye Me by your hand Me by the manosphere Me in your private time Me by ankle Me where no one is watching you Me in your very own right Me by your very own boner Where do you think I'm hiding Me by your hand Me by your fingers Me by your k...

I arrived in town With an electric toothbrush Pressed against my clitoris After a few weeks I run out of batteries Humming silently between my lips I am the engine now I learn how to make that humming sound Together we make it in the city Silently br...

Transient, restleeeees I'm not there, or not there yet But if I'm coming, I must be hollow enough I follow nobody, I mustn't rest When I'm near come someone else I'm so tired of subjectivity I must justify my presence by losing it Must not keep a st...

I need a song now But there is no sound Give me that sound I have a mouth And I want to sing like a face that is split open I want to sing like a continuous echo of splitting hymens I have a mouth and it opens It continues to open It is still opening...

Golden locks Dripping, melting out of me Golden showers The waste products of the body: Hair and fingernail We sit in a worn tea room drinking worn tea Chipped China, chipped China “You just need to get laid” He says “Your eyes look dull, and the hair...

O, Heaven, O, Heaven, the next Queens-bound train is two stations away. From Tvedestrand, my white gown that curls around the harbour fetal-style. I never was a girly girl, forgive me! From the very back of the church choir I am standing, lone alto range. Gi...

Alice lost, she took a long rest in an unknown place She thought, "Where do all these creatures come from? And why are they here?" Like in a club of fur Strange feeling, strange feeling They must be drawn to something They must be drawn to something She...

When I went to America I found myself to be not myself. I could not align with the landscape. It reminded me, my body, of being newborn. I understand why people want to be reborn, I understand why people speak in tongues. I understand why people want to feel n...

Dawn came quiet Dawn came cool The inside of my eyelid Is glazed with honey dew Dawn came quiet Dawn came cool The inside of my eyelid Is glazed with honey dew 

I am a house of bones I am a house of bones I am a house of bones I am a house of bones I am a house of bones I am a house of bones I am a house of bones I am a house of bones 

How gentle to go swimming Inside her secret swimming And breathe with secret gills Through thick-shake water a set of oars Rippling the water Pass her on to me, pass her on to me To me Inside a secret tomb Therein lie my secret bones She passes on...

I called you, but only in my mind What I really did was to Undress not the body but me and you Word by word til we almost touched I wanted to say everything But instead I gave up writing I gave up sublimation I gave up trying But I promise you that I...

I have a darkness inside Come on and be swallowed Come on in and you'll drown Come on and be swallowed Come on in and you'll drown There are days out on the hills And sparks do find us Honey dew, honey dew 

I have walked this body to the rim of its ends From there I have seen everything else It was there I felt the flexing of the bicep And the sudden swing of hips The traffic island of the heart (This is where my story begins) A basilica of stone waiting...

What am I doing here? We're almost done now. What are you doing here? Are we communicating? Am I promoting? I want to tell you something There should be something I could tell you, there should be something I could do to reach you directly, but there is no...

That night, I watched people fucking on my computer Nobody can see me looking anyway It's late And everything turns into a kind of dirty My skin starts breaking with LCD I feel desire One I don't know, one I don't own I'm free I turn off the light and...

Joan of Arc follows me around Australia I hear her voice in my head And catch bits of nature in my mouth: Rotting leaves, bird shit, mud, flood water I can smell what's there on the inside. Oslo, March: Quiet Words enter me from everywhere. In Brisbane...

Think big, girl, like a king, think kingsize. Did you learn nothing in America? I've placed four big bananas in my lap In New York I don't dream. I always wanted to be less subculturally lonely, but here I see no subculture. No, no future. No big science. No...

And I'll never know pleasure like this What is this desire? This biting Hitting into another place What is this that can't be untamed? And you I feel full of holes Separate And when I wake up I see white flowers on the bed No one ever asks me how do...

I am the heir of breasts and fire A thousand apples dream my dreams A fringe of serpents line the brows And blood is thinned and kept in veins Eyes open, eyes closed Mouth closed, mouth open And the lips contain the tongue The walls melting Skin clogs...

There's spring Holds a killer in her claws She comes up with the river That climbs the mountain sides She climbs up the ribs Climbs up the leafs With a swing in her hips The spring time, the spring time is here It sprung for majestic stars, clouds It...

I saw what you did underneath the table Beneath the fine layer of sweat That encapsulates your hands and face As if you are my egg Is that sweat from my body? My voice turned to milk in your mouth I gave you words: The milk was from my breast Take my...

Paint the paper in milk pleasures Running down my bones I got milk running down my legs Milk dripping from the bulbs Seems like they're blowing bubbles Look like speech bubbles My bones look like nipples The sky-breasted breast The sky-breasted sky 

Let me see the sun, let the sun see me I'm begging you Athena O I need the fire, the rushing of the fire Release me from the night Let us have the truth, let the truth have us We're pleading you, divinity The sun is blinding our eye Our bleeding stone...

In Oslo it's swap and people walk through the city quietly like friendly zombies like a sleeping army a secret rhythm a sudden sticks a slow burning flame of safety lies at the heart, we can feel it, but we cannot find it. In and out between us a thin silver t...

Failed every period Did baroque badly Afraid of blood Dream was too lonely I chose keeping it together In these IKEA white walls Of my post-war Nordic silence But only desire is real I must find some kind of art form Where I can call my tongue back...

Not all limbs have erections Sometimes even you have to decide Which is up And which is down Which travels and which is stationary Which travels to stations, and which travels aimlessly And whether desire can perhaps best be described As a train running...

Did you notice how beautiful colored eyes are? Have I been saved? Don't know what to do; are we being saved? Renée, Renée The camera is a mirror, but mine, not yours For a hundred days you are a virgin or a young boy You are not sure; I'm never sure Inn...

I clutch my phone With my sweaty palm In my hand I clutch my heart In the coffin for my heart In my hand It's so loud And I get so afraid It's where I start speaking 

Milk pleasures Milk pleasures Milk pleasures Milk pleasures Milk pleasures Milk pleasures Milk pleasures Milk pleasures Milk pleasures Milk pleasures ...Running down my bones Running down my bones Running down my bones 

I'm six or seven and dreaming that I'm a boy. I emerged out of the water and went into the garden with a small silver hand between my thighs Later, in the shower, I see a boy naked. He is contagious, and I can feel mine. I was told not to stare then, but my e...

As I write this I must pretend someone's holding my hand Probably someone dead (Would be the only one to hold me now, ice cold) I was waiting, forbidden No one knew I was waiting, not even you I was not speaking You were travelling And you came to me as...

Some days I feel like my body is a cushion, held up by thin wires, and I can see myself from above holding wires in my hands 

[Verse 1] You are your own disco ball hovering above you like A comforting reminder that not even you belong to you So you put your jazz hands in the air And they get tangled in your hair But you'll always stand the victors Exercising everything by tappi...

What is it to take care of yourself? Getting paid? Getting laid? Getting married? Getting pregnant? Fighting for visibility in your market? Realizing your potential? Being healthy, being clean, not making a fool of yourself, not hurting yourself? Shaving in al...

What is it to take care of yourself? What are we taking care of? A million bedrooms with hands softly lulling our divine cocks and cunts, without telling anyone, a million ships come alone out on the calmest seas. So are we loving ourselves now? Are we motheri...

[Verse] You might be in pieces but let's call it something else Let's say that you are your own disco ball It sounds better, more promising It doesn't just sound like you're broken But what, but what breaks is the light shines on you You break it away an...

Like capitalism It works like unrequited love that brings It never rests Just like I need the love I'm not getting from you And all the people in the world Or in between you and I in that way And in the way of our slump It must be disgusted But I nee...

Hey, you Hey, you Hey, you, I know who you are I know who you, you are Have patience in your living Have patience in your living Your distances are vast I know who you are Open up to me so I can pull in the night when you are ready Wake from a memory...

I don't know who I am I have never really truly Never truly really Never really loved I've never really loved I've never truly really loved In memory of The sea took him Too young to die Mysterious circumstances I've never really loved a dog I've...

What is human? Is there really nothing but seeing or seen The voice is wordless tissue The fog from Heart of Glass Listen to the lips, they feed you The voice is a second flesh that cannot be seen This body is not for vision, the seer cannot go there Bu...

This is a thirst that resembles me Sparks do find us How do you smell it? How do you know? How do you spell it? This is a thirst to enter This is a thirst glazed with honey dew, honey dew This is a thirst that resembles me Inside I'm glowing This is...

This is a thirst that resembles me Sparks do find us How do you smell it? How do you know? How do you spell it? This is a thirst to enter This is a thirst glazed with honey dew, honey dew This is a thirst to enter and I enter in This is a thirst that...

I'm in a big house, having big dreams And next time I wake up There's blood on the bed Didn't know it was time yet Or is it not mine? I feel cold in this hotel As if surprised to find I still don't have it in me And yet so Hollow Unsure if I'm young...

How thick is a surface? Why this and not that? The only question you should ask Or maybe what is the deepest human longing? I've said it before and I'll say it again I'm complex and intellectual But I will say it is to be loved Why this and not that? T...