PERTH
By
Bon Iver
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I’m tearing up, acrost your face
Move dust through the light
To fide your name
It’s something fane
This is not a place
Not yet awake, I’m raised of make
Still alive who you love
Still alive who you love
Still alive who you love
In a mother, out a moth
Furling forests for the soft
Gotta know been lead aloft
So I’m ridding all your stories
What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!
You’re breaking your ground
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
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
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.”
LUMP SUM
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Sold my cold knot, a heavy stone
Sold my red horse for a venture home
To vanish on the bow
Settling slow
Fit it all, fit it in the doldrums
Or so the story goes
Color the era
Film it as historical
My mile could not pump the plumb
In my arbor ’till my ardor trumped
Every inner inertia
Lump sum
All at once rushing from the sump-pump
Or so the story goes
Balance we won’t know
We will see when it gets warm
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