Listen to Year of Love song with lyrics from Jenny Hval

Year of Love

Jenny Hval11 Mar 2022

Year of Love Lyrics

Year of Love - Jenny Hval

Lyrics by:Jenny Hval

Composed by:Jenny Hval

 

We were married on a rainy day

 

Isn't that how the song goes

 

I wore black jeans and codeine

 

I guess I wanted to make sure

 

I seemed "relaxed"

 

"It's just for contractual reasons" I explained

 

Signing the papers

 

As if I truly believed that a contract was further

From the institution than the industrial happiness complex

 

But in the year of love

 

I signed a deal with patriarchy

Now watch me step

 

Into the place where you can see me:Look at mе

 

You think that I'm different but I'm a stagehand

Look it's there under the ring

The imprint on my skin

 

Oh a year later I'm on stage

 

When a man proposes to a woman

 

Right in front of me in the middle of a song

I thought I knew what was about

 

And I am holding a disco flashlight

 

It is meant to make the audience

 

Feel like multitudes of colors

 

That belong to nobody in particular

That they share between their bodies

But now all it does is light up a proposal

A normcore institution

 

I am giving it my voice but then again I already did

 

Oh already did

 

But in the year of love

 

I did what I never thought I would

And you may think I'm different

But listen all contracts can be sung

 

In my voice I'm just a stagehand

 

Look it's there under the ring

 

The imprint on my skin

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