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Björk first wrote it for Bernardo Bertolucci's film Stealing Beauty, but the film project was withdrawn and the song went on Homogenic. She said she wanted epic lyrics, so she sat at a kitchen table with the poet Sjón, drank a lot of red wine and told him the whole story for hours and days, and he wrote the words from it. She described the theme as Isobel going to the city and said the song completes a loose trilogy with Human Behaviour and Isobel. Besides strings it uses timbales, timpani, an Alp horn and accordion.

The second single from the album reached number twenty-one in the UK, number two on the UK independent chart and number six in Iceland. NME made it Single of the Week. Michel Gondry's video casts Björk as a woman who finds a book called My Story buried in her garden, which begins to write itself and leads her to a publisher, played by Toby Huss, and to a musical about her own story that nests inside itself. It won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for a Grammy.