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.
@mikec Thanks for posting this. It explains why I like this song so much. Apart from the beautiful melody, the story resonates with my own experience at 17 and still seeing the landmarks in my hometown that remind me of that time in my life.
@mikec Thanks for posting this. It explains why I like this song so much. Apart from the beautiful melody, the story resonates with my own experience at 17 and still seeing the landmarks in my hometown that remind me of that time in my life.
Source: thealchemyindex.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/child-of-winter-child-of-sun-justin-vernon-bon-iver-interview/
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.
Thank you. Beautiful. Love this song so much
Thank you. Beautiful. Love this song so much
@mikec Thanks for posting this. It explains why I like this song so much. Apart from the beautiful melody, the story resonates with my own experience at 17 and still seeing the landmarks in my hometown that remind me of that time in my life.
@mikec Thanks for posting this. It explains why I like this song so much. Apart from the beautiful melody, the story resonates with my own experience at 17 and still seeing the landmarks in my hometown that remind me of that time in my life.