The opening track of Bon Iver’s third album, 22, A Million, “22 (OVER S∞∞N)” introduces the album’s more electronic-centric sound. The song features a sample of Mahalia Jackson’s iconic live version of “How I Got Over,” as performed at the March of Washington, minutes before Martin Luther King Jr’s...
[Verse 1]
(It might be over soon, two two)
Where you gonna look for confirmation?
And if it's ever gonna happen
So as I'm standing at the station
It might be over soon
[Verse 2]
(All these years)
There I find you marked in constellation (two, two)
There isn't ceiling in our garden
And then I draw an ear on you
So I can speak into the silence
It might be over soon (two, do, two)
(It might be over soon) two, two
[Verse 3]
(And I'm gonna shout all my trouble over)
Oh and I have carried consecration
And then You expelled all decision
As I may stand up with a vision
Caught daylight, goddamn right
Within a rise there lies a scission
(It might be over soon)
22 (OVER S∞∞N) was written by Clara Ward & Justin Vernon.
22 (OVER S∞∞N) was produced by April Base & Justin Vernon.
Bon Iver released 22 (OVER S∞∞N) on Fri Sep 30 2016.
Regarding his sampling of Mahalia Jackson’s live recording of “How I Got Over,” Vernon told Uncut:
If there’s anybody who’s ever sung for all of humanity, it’s her. I couldn’t have sung that. I had to have that piece of music in there. It just made me happy.