BETH / REST
By
Bon Iver
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Errant heat to the star
And the rain let in
The hawser rolls, the vessel’s whole and Christ, it’s thin
Well I?d know that you’d offer
Would reveal it, though it’s soft and flat
Won’t repeat it, cull and coffer’s that
For the soffit, hang this homeward
Pry it open with your love
Sending lost and alone standing offers
It is steep / it is stone
Such recovery
From the daily press, the deepest nest, in keeper’s keep
All the news at the door
Such a revelry
Well, it’s hocked inside of everything you said to me
It was found what we orphaned
Didn’t mention it would serve us picked
Said your love is known
I’m standing up on it
Aren’t we married?!
I ain?t living in the dark no more
It’s not a promise, I?m just gonna call it
Heavy mitted love
Our love is a star
Sure some hazardry
For the light before and after most indefinitely
Danger has been stole away
This is axiom
FLUME
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I am my mother’s only one
It’s enough
I wear my garment so it shows
Now you know
Only love is all maroon
Gluey feathers on a flume
Sky is womb and she’s the moon
I am my mother on the wall
With us all
I move in water, shore to shore
Nothing’s more
Only love is all maroon
Lapping lakes like leery loons
Leaving rope burns, reddish ruse
Only love is all maroon
Gluey feathers on a flume
Sky is womb and she’s the moon
BEACH BABY
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When you’re out tell your lucky one
To know that you’ll leave
Don’t you lock when you’re fleeing
I’d like not to hear keys
Only hold till your coffee warms
But don’t hurry and speed
Once a time put a tongue in your ear on the beach
And you clutched clinging heels
BLOOD BANK
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Well, I met you at the blood bank
We were looking at the bags
Wondering if any of the colors
Matched any of the names we knew on the tags
You said, see look that’s yours
Stacked on top with your brother’s
See how the resemble one another
Even in their plastic little covers
And I said I know it well
That secret that you knew but don’t know how to tell
It fucks with your honor and it teases your head
But you know that it’s good girl
‘Cause its running you with red
Then the snow started falling
We were stuck out in your car
You were rubbing both of my hands
Chewing on a candy bar
You said, ain’t this just like the present
To be showing up like this?
As a moon waned to crescent
We started to kiss
And I said I know it well
That secret that we know that we don’t know how to tell
I’m in love with your honor, I’m in love with your cheeks
What’s that noise up the stairs, babe?
Is that Christmas morning creaks?
And I know it well, I know it well
And I know it well, I know it
And I know it, I know it
And I know it, I know it
RE:STACKS
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This my excavation and today is kumran
Everything that happens from now on
This is pouring rain
This is paralyzed
I keep throwing it down two-hunded at a time
It’s hard to find it when you knew it
When your money’s gone
And you’re drunk as hell
On your back with your racks as the stacks are your load
In the back and the racks and the stacks of your load
In the back with your racks and you’re un-stacking your load
Well I’ve been twisting to the sun and the moon
I needed to replace
The fountain in the front yard is rusted out
All my love was down
In a frozen ground
There’s a black crow sitting across from me
His wiry legs are crossed
He is dangling my keys, he even fakes a toss
Whatever could it be
That has brought me to this loss?
On your back with your racks as the stacks are your load
In the back and the racks and the stacks of your load
In the back with your racks and you’re un-stacking your load
This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization
It’s the sound of the unlocking and the lift away
Your love will be
Safe with me
MINNESOTA, WI
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Armour let it through, borne the arboretic truth you kept posing
Sat down in the suit, fixed on up it wasn’t you by finished closing
Ramble in the roots, had the marvel, moved the proof be kneeled fine’s glowing
Storing up the clues, it had it’s sullen blue bruised through by showing
Settle past a patience where wishes and your will are spilling pictures
Water’s running through in the valley where we grew to write this scripture:
Never gonna break
Never gonna break
Never gonna break
Never gonna break
Not for a part in any gamut of the dark
Doubled in the toes annex it, it minute closed in the morning
Did not lose it in the stack’s stow, I’m a lay that call back on ya
You know it won’t beseech you, we’re laying in an open field
I will let you grow, no need to notice
So carry on my dear, what is clear up in the daylight is we’re hung here
Fall is coming soon, a new year for the moon and the Hmong here
Never gonna break
Never gonna break
Never gonna break
Never gonna break
All that it seems
Bellows tracing through the streams
Never gonna break
Never gonna break
Never gonna break
Never gonna break
All at it’s seams
Swallows swelling for the beams