“Possibly Maybe” cover by Final Fantasy & Ed Droste

Final Fantasy & Ed Droste → Enjoyed: A Tribute to Björk’s Post → “Possibly Maybe”

Lyrics

Your flirt finds me out
Teases the crack in me
Smittens me with hope

Possibly maybe probably love

As much as I definitely enjoy solitude
I wouldn’t mind perhaps
Spending little time with you
Sometimes
Sometimes

Possibly maybe probably love

Uncertainty excites me
Baby
Who knows what’s going to happen?
Lottery or car crash
Or you’ll join a cult

Probably maybe possibly love

Mon petit vulcan
You’re eruptions and disasters
I keep calm
Admiring the lava
I keep calm

Possibly maybe probably love

Electric shocks?
I love them!
With you dozen a day
But after a while I wonder
Where’s that love you promised me?

Possibly maybe probably love

How can you offer me love like that?
My heart’s burned
How can you offer mer love like that?
I’m exhaused
Leave me alone

Possibly maybe probably love

Since we broke up
I’m using lipstick again
I’ll suck my tongue
As a remembrance of you...

Notes

This is Owen Pallett and Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear’s contribution to Stereogum’s compilation. Listen to the cover and read Ed’s description at Stereogum.

Ed Droste Owen Pallett

“I’m just making this up as I go along:

“There are two ways of looking at a singer.

“One is the white way, where the singer stands above and looks farther than her audience. She is a blank canvas for us to project ourselves upon. She is a figurehead for our emotions. She distills out thoughts in her ramblings.

“The other is the black way, where the singer is just a person who lives in a house, owns a microphone and maybe a guitar and a computer, has some writing ability, and spends a great deal of time working on producing some cultural product for the world to consume.

“For a long time, I thought about Bjork in the white way. I had a poster of her on my wall when I was 14. I transcribed ‘Venus As A Boy’ for vibraphone when I was 15. I accompanied a friend who sang one of her songs at a talent show. Then, when Homogenic came out, I started to ‘lose faith’. When I heard ‘Five Years’, I didn’t understand what she was singing about. I didn’t like the way she said ‘fucking Buddhist’. When I saw her Olympic Island show, touring Vespertine, all I could see was a fireworks show, a string quartet, Matmos and an Alexander McQueen dress, and I left early.

“Only when her manager told me that she edits all her songs on ProTools herself did I start to think about her the black way. Then I went back and realized what a great musician she was. So creative at solving problems!

“Anyway, our version of Possibly Maybe is an exercise in idolatry, reminiscent of my high school attitude toward musicians. I’m so happy with it! It was my first time using Max/MSP drum programming and processing on a song. But it’s not really how I feel about Bjork. I much more identify with the Xiu Xiu cover and the Atlas Sound cover. People making music in rooms.

“And furthermore, I hope that more people start thinking about Bjork this way that I’ve described as ‘black’... it makes Volta a much better album. And this tribute album becomes a lot more acceptable when you hear it as ‘a bunch of people with instruments playing songs written by a girl with some instruments’. She’s not Rihanna, people, she’s a real boy!!” —Owen [source]