FLUME
By
Bon Iver
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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
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
BABYS
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Summer comes to multiply, to multiply
Summer comes to multiply, to multiply
And I, I’m the carnival of peace
I’ll probably start a fleet with no apologies
And the carnival of scenes, it grows more and more appealing
But my woman and I, my woman and I know what we’re for
Summer comes to multiply, to multiply
Summer comes to multiply, to multiply
FOR EMMA
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“So apropos
Saw death on a sunny snow”
“For every life…”
“forego the parable.”
“Seek the light.”
“…my knees are cold.”
Running home
Running home
Running home
Running home
“Go find another lover;
To bring a- to string along!”
“With all your lies,
You’re still very lovable.”
“I toured a light
So many foreign roads
For Emma, forever ago.”
TOWERS
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For the love, I?d fallen on
in the swampy August dawn
what a mischief you would bring young darling!
when the onus is not all your own
when you’re up for it before you’ve grown
from the faun forever gone
in the towers of your honeycomb
I’d a tore your hair out just to climb back darling
when you’re filling out your only form
can you tell that it?s just ceremon’
now you’ve added up to what you’re from
build your tether rain-out from your fragments…
break the sailor’s table on your sacrum…
fuck the fiercest fables, I’m with Hagen
for the love, comes the burning young
from the liver, sweating through your tongue
well, you?re standing on my sternum don’t you climb down darling
oh the sermons are the first to rest
smoke on Sundays when you?re drunk and dressed
out the hollows where the swallow nests
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