The closer for Bon Iver’s 22, A Million. It was premiered live on August 12th, 2016 at Eaux Claires music festival. The attendees were all given a small hymnal-like booklet with the lyrics.
The track number, 10, is placed at the beginning of the song title (00000 Million), it reads 1,000,000.
[Verse 1]
Must've been forces, that took me on them wild courses
Who knows how many poses that I've been in
But them the main closest, hark! It gives meaning mine
I cannot really post this, ah, feel the signs
[Chorus]
I worried 'bout rain and I worried bout lightning
But I watched them off to the light of the morning
Marking the slope, slung low in the highlands
(Where the days have no numbers)
If it's harmed me, it's harmed me, it'll harm me, I let it in
[Verse 2]
Oh, the old modus: out to be leading live
Said, comes the old ponens, demit to strive
A word about Gnosis: it ain't gonna buy the groceries
Or middle-out locusts, or weigh to find
[Chorus]
I hurry 'bout shame and I worry 'bout a worn path
And I wander off, just to come back home
Turning to waltz, hold high in the lowlands
('Cause the days have no numbers)
It harms me, it harms me, it harms me like a lamb
[Verse 3]
So I can depose this, partial to the bleeding vines
Suppose you can't hold shit, how high I've been
What a river don't know is to climb out and heed a line
To slow among roses or stay behind
[Chorus]
I've been to that grove
Where no matter the source is
And I walked it off, how long I'd last
Sore-ring to cope, whole band on the canyon
(When the days have no numbers)
Well it harms me, it harms me, it harms me, I'll let it in
00000 Million was written by Fionn Regan & Justin Vernon & Michael Lewis.
00000 Million was produced by April Base.
Bon Iver released 00000 Million on Fri Sep 30 2016.
Vernon explained to The New York Times,
Being 22 is me, and then the last song being a million, which is this great elusive thing: like, what’s a million?
The album deals a lot with duality in general and how that works into the math. I was big into Taoism in college, and the paradox of duality, a...