What does calgary by bon iver mean

The song passes so easily you could mistake these shifts for happenstance. Four years ago, anyone who mentioned Vernon and "crafty" in the same sentence was probably referring to whittling or homemade jams. Skip to content Search query All Results. Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. Jagjaguwar The sun is setting.

They "have to keep a dialogue" to survive the paces of marriage. Try to rekindle the spark. They depend on each other, make each other happy.

I think "you know that all the rope's untied" is like saying, "in the end, no matter what. I think the line about the one piece swimmer is a memory flying by. They're remembering their past, their youth. Their life is flashing before their eyes. Who knows. But he's woken up on a different plane of existence, still beside her. No matter what problems arise, no matter what "demons" come, they'll never be strong enough to put out the joy in his heart when she's in it.

So basically, the best love song ever. Aquarius on June 17, Link. Aw, thank you : Even if it's not what Justin Vernon was thinking off when he wrote it, I'll always hear it this way. Aquarius on June 24, Reading your take literally made me cry. So perfect. Very beautiful interpretation I seldom use the word beautiful. Congrats friend. Song Meaning i'm thinking that it is an old couple hair, old, long , with flashbacks to their younger days?

I get a similar vibe from this. Or might just be a couple heading towards a break-up. Obviously the narrator here has seen this coming, and is now trying to explain why it's for the best. Teach our bodies: haunt the cause. Or at least they or she feels that way. Rttu on May 24, My Interpretation I think it's more of her loving him more.

He stayed around to take care of the kids and now he's leaving, asking her to move on and such. RavioliFaceMan on May 22, Link. No Replies Log in to reply. Song Comparison I think it might be about a girl only wanting him for wanting someone. So in a weird way it's weird to be so proud of this record and the music because it's even more different than For Emma is to anything I've ever done before. There will be some Bon Iver fans hoping for a second For Emma, but this album is not that; it is a broader and more densely populated record: there are duelling saxophones and pedal steel and Bruce Hornsby -style keyboards.

A couple of the tracks were begun before For Emma was released, remaining for some while in their most skeletal form before Vernon gradually set to working on them. It was steady: Minnesota came. And then four months would pass, and another song would come. It was just very slow-moving. So it's very hard to look back on this record and see it as a timepiece for me. When the songs did arrive, Vernon could recognise them immediately as Bon Iver material rather than possibilities for any of his other projects.

It was something outside, and something over there. While For Emma was an album preoccupied with a particular time in Vernon's life, the new album — simply called Bon Iver — seems more concerned with place; its 10 song titles are all references to locations.

But not all of these places are geographical locations so much as sentiments or states of being. I wonder if being away from home on the road for so long has crystallised his perception of place and belonging.

Shattered, maybe. It's becoming more and more unclear to me where my place is. I'm really confused right now. And I know that I have roots here now with this place, and I know that I can come back here, but I wonder, am I supposed to live here? And so in a way it feels kind of late, but I think that I'm ready to have a stare in the face of me and this place and wonder if I should be here still.

Later, we drive through downtown Eau Claire, past the apartment Vernon also keeps, and the empty building he had once hoped to set up as a music venue; we visit the local restaurant and the farmers' market — at this time of year all asparagus and cheese curds.

And everywhere we stop — the coffee shop, walking along the main drag, or in the bar where he and his family have drunk for years, friends and acquaintances stop to greet him, a flurry of bear hugs and back-slaps and promises to catch up soon. And so it is hard not to see Vernon as a man buoyed by belonging, firmly rooted here, in his hometown.

But life as a touring musician has unsettled him somewhat. He talks of fragmented friendships, of not being able to mow his own lawn for the whole summer, of the fact that his girlfriend, the Canadian musician Kathleen Edwards , lives in Toronto. He talks of belonging to people and projects as much as places, but also of what seems like a new kind of loneliness: "There's something to do when you go home at night that I haven't figured out yet," he admits at one point.

The musical collaborations have perhaps given him a place to put down some kind of roots, but you can't help but feel it is in Bon Iver that he truly belongs. So I always had it, and it was always a really good balance. And in a weird way, I've stopped creating the way I started creating.

Which I miss a little bit. Or I don't understand why I'm creating the way I am now.