| Bon Iver – Skinny Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is about being in love with a woman who has some emotional instability, who has a psychological issue of which she's not aware or doesn't understand that forces her to sabotage the relationship. Come on skinny love just last the year - (you want so badly for her to be able to stay stable and committed to the relationship - just please last the year. things will be better when we get through this) Pour a little salt we were never here My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer (staring at the remnants of the failed relationship) I tell my love to wreck it all (she is sabotaging the relationship. she tells him to wreck it all) Cut out all the ropes and let me fall (she's telling him to let her go. she doesn't know what she's doing or why, but can't help it) My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Right in the moment this order's tall (it's so hard for him to accept what she's asking. he knows why she's doing it but he can't make her see. he doesn't want to let her go because he knows it's wrong) (this next part is talking about the frustration he feels - all the things he's told her - she can't listen. he's mostly mad at himself for not having been able to help her, for how he handled things) And I told you to be patient And I told you to be fine And I told you to be balanced And I told you to be kind And in the morning I'll be with you But it will be a different kind And I'll be holding all the tickets And you'll be owning all the fines Come on skinny love, what happened here? (how did this happen to our love? how did you get to this place in your head?) Suckle on the hope in light brassieres My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Sullen load is full, so slow on the split And I told you to be patient And I told you to be fine And I told you to be balanced And I told you to be kind And now all your love is wasted And then who the hell was I? And I'm breaking at the britches And at the end of all your lines (this next part is the anguish he feels because he knows in his heart that no one will ever love her, take care of her, fight for her the way that he would and has. he loves her and is worried about her and wants her to be okay in the future, but he knows that no one will ever give to her the way that he has and would. he feels helpless). Who will love you? Who will fight? Who will fall far behind? |
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| Bon Iver – RE: Stacks Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is using poker as a metaphor for being in a relationship, in this case, a failed relationship. When you play poker, you gamble, as you do in a relationship. In poker, you put your chips in the pot when you think you might win, but you are risking them, and they may all get taken away. In a relationship, if you are really committing, you put your heart into it. You risk getting your heart broken (all your chips taken away). When you are drunk and gambling, you throw your chips into the pot and often make bad decisions, the liquor causing you to feel more optimistic about your hand than you should, causing you to gamble with reckless abandon. You behave the same way in love. You can become drunk with what you love about a person, with how you feel when you are with them, with how you envision the future with this person. Love actually changes the chemsitry of the human brain, like alcohol. Your vision gets clouded by love as it does by liquor. And you may not be able to see the downsides of the relationship in to which you are putting your chips (your heart), and you overplay your hand (put your heart into a relationship that's probably going to hurt you). You are throwing down 200 at a time, losing your money (having your feelings hurt because of the issues in the relationship, your heart chipped away at). And then your money's all gone and you are drunk as hell. Your heart's been broken and you are sitting there feeling the bad effects of the liquor. I've twisting to the sun I needed to replace The fountain in the front yard is rusted out All my love was down In a frozen ground - this is talking about where he's at after the relationship was over. His love has been pushed under a frozen grown, but it's waiting for spring and will bloom again. There's a black crow sitting across from me; his wiry legs are crossed And he's dangling my keys he even fakes a toss Whatever could it be That has brought me to this loss - I think of this as the black crow with the keys as an illusion as his mind wanders back and imagines that his love and relationship will come back, the black crow fake tossing his keys to her house back to him. Whatever could it be that brought me to this loss - a familiar feeling/question you experience as you morn the loss of your love. Why did this happen? How come I didn't see it? How could I have put my chips into this pot and had my heart broken so badly? This is what I'm feeling now. |
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