Thumbsucker-Jenny Hval/Félicia Atkinson

[00:27.58]Come with me [00:30.54]Fall into the wildscape [00:33.54]Reverse the church bells [00:36.37]Swiping in the mud [00:39.65]With two fingers [00:44.81]And one in your mouth, wandering [00:57.75]I was a thumbsucker, what am I now? [01:00.68]I was a thumbsucker, what am I now? [01:03.67]Am I a traveller, was I ever? [01:09.59]Or do I just colour 'round the clear lines? [01:12.84]Do I just turn away from every confrontation? [01:21.76]Biting until bleeding [01:24.66]She says she knows [01:26.98]This is my strange voice [01:30.39]She say she's close [01:32.11]Once I was a thumbsucker [01:35.97]Doesn't say to what [01:37.92]Once I was a runaway [01:40.87]The forest is all sorts of forests [01:45.52]Hid in tight places and World War II bunkers [01:49.05]It seems to be adapting itself, she says [01:51.17]Found secret tree huts, spiralling [01:54.41]Alternating between mountains and marshland [01:58.60]A self-harming vampire, she always says [02:00.63]Of the tender kind, she always says [02:03.55]A compensation, she always says [02:06.33]For something too wild, for something too wild [02:09.26]For something too wild, something too wild [02:12.35]For something too wild, for something too wild [02:16.79]In this way [02:17.52]Alternating mouth and thumb [02:18.74]Forest and human [02:19.95]Both transforming [02:21.29]Forest and humans [02:22.74]Producing nothing. Until [02:28.14]Are equals [02:28.62]I got afraid that I'd dug too deep [02:30.83]Stirred up something in the body [02:33.38]The glands of instinct, fear and desire [02:39.58]Clanking from a distant engine [02:42.46]Iron shafts and idler-wheels [02:45.74]And then there is release [03:02.18]Whatever it is you are doing to yourself [03:12.78]You are always performing some kind of internal construction work [03:26.49]I was a thumbsucker, what am I now [03:29.14]Am I a runaway, was I ever? [03:32.19]It's all in the wrist [03:37.19]Sketching out the wildscapes [03:39.68]Sucking on the church bells [03:41.90]The hunger of the clappers [03:47.69]Withdrawing word by word [03:51.98]Back into the rabbit hole [03:56.58]