[Verse 1]
Climb
Is all we know
When thaw
Is not below us
No, can't grow up
In that iron ground
Claire, all too sore for sound
[Verse 2]
Bet
Is hardly shown
Scraped
Across the foam
Like they stole it
And, oh, how they hold it
Claire, we nearly forfeit
[Chorus 1]
I... I'm growing like the quickening hues
I... I'm telling darkness from lines on you
Over havens fora
Full and swollen morass, young habitat
All been living alone
Where the ice snap and the hold clast are known
[Verse 3]
Home
We're savage high
Come
We finally cry
Oh, and we don it
Because it's right
Claire, I was too sore for sight
[Chorus 2]
I... we're sewing up through the latchet greens
I... un-peel keenness, honey, bean for bean
Same white pillar tone as with the bone street
Sand is thrown where she stashed us at
(All been living alone) All been living alone
Where the cracks at in the low part of the stoning
[Outro]
Enough of this
Give us the grown
Give us the grown
Wash. was written by Justin Vernon.
Wash. was produced by Justin Vernon.
Most of the Bon Iver, Bon Iver song titles are named after places, but the clue to this piano ballad is in the lyrics. The song is addressed to Claire, however it appears frontman Justin Vernon is not singing of his love for a girl by that name but to his hometown Eau Claire in Wisconsin.
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