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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
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
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Makes the meaning pretty obvious given the previous comments...
Interviewer: The place name’s on the album, do they relate to the content of the songs at all?
Justin Vernon: Yeah, they all do, take ‘Towers’ for example: ‘Towers’ is the name of the dormitory that I lived in in college; it’s made up of these two towers – North and South – my girlfriend lived in one and I lived in the other. It’s about falling in love, but also about what happens when you’ve long fallen out of love and those reminders are still there. You drive by them, these two buildings, and you look, and you realise that we really built that up. That we really built that love into these things, and for a long time afterward looking at them really made me feel sad; to see these empty buildings that I don’t go in to anymore. But then, as time goes on, they start to become kind of joyous in their own way: you can look at them and think ‘that love was great and these buildings still stand tall’. But there’s also an element of the fact that they’re just buildings – they’re gonna fall down one day, and they’re not that important because there’s new love in your life and you’ve got to break things down that get built up.
I especially like;
"for the love, comes the burning young
from the liver, sweating through your tongue"
An emotional filter is such a big part of a relationship and is often taken for granted especially when you're young.
"break the sailors table on your sacrum?"
THAT PART IS ABOUT DOING IT. you know where your sacrum is right? low back. and where would that be in relationship to a table and breaking it? on the table. so where does that leave the girl? with sacrum on the table. how would she break it? it would be pretty hard to break by just laying there. i think you get it. also sailors pretty much always reference some type of sleaze, and are college boys any better than sleazy sailors? i think no.
actually the song is ridiculously brilliant, and its about losing your innocence, and finding out who you are as an adult sexually and personally.
"the sermons are the first to rest"
oh aren't they in college?
"filling out your only form"
your BODY! you only get one.
not a survey.........sheesh.
and I'm pretty sure "fuck the fiersiest fables" is pretty literal. because isn't that what college is? living out some grand idea, PARTICULARLY sexually? like you are supposed to live out some dream of sleeping around and being free? but it hurts. hence the hagan part i'm thinking (who stabs someone in the back). because you're doing it, but your not really an adult yet, but you think you are supposed to, and it hurts, but you don't want to stop it either.
hence:
"your standing on my sternum don't climb down darling" pretty sure thats about weight on his chest. not that he's going to support someone. its about pressure, from a person, you get it.
"smoke on sundays when you're drunk and dressed" what else would you do on sunday, freshman year?
when it clicked, it was crazy. this man is FUCKING BRILLIANT. this song is, beyond words. so amazing
he can taste the alcohol. the person is drunk, obviously, and he is experiencing their drunken entanglement and thinking about how all morals have gone out of the window. literally.
the fact that its called towers makes it so much clearer. too. the towers are dorms, the girls aren't fully women yet, and it hurts to be messing around because your not ready, but your not ready to stop either.
:KJHAS:FHISGJS:DJGS this song is so fucking brilliant i can't even handle it.
I googled the tune cos, the riff and the subject matter is really similar to this tune wot i wrote.
I think I optimistically thought there maybe a connection, evidently there isnt!!
but finding this great site, thought id share with u cos u might like it.
"This Island Is Manmade"
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