We was the sixth track to be released from Bon Iver’s fourth studio album i,i. The track was released on August 8, 2019, the day after fans were able to hear i,i in its entirety at listening events held worldwide.
Justin Vernon (Writer) on Apple Music: “I was working on this idea one morning with t...
For only takers, stand and take in where you are
Turn around and face it, you're adjacent to the scar
"I want mine here though"
We heard that story before (Woo, hahaha)
What you think we're taming with the towers and the oar?
You keep evading boy, you putting me flat on the floor
It's okay, you were young when you were gave it
But you stayed there
And you’d expect it when we photograph our scars
Some lonely fable that we took in then right from the start
I want it back
I want it back
Won’t you tell me how to get it back?
I want it back
I want it back
Why won't you tell me how to get it back?
My, my, my, my
I'm coming over for another story told
I'm saying homie that it's not what you been sold
It's hardly what you'd know
The ordinary something neither of us holds
No folding gold for protecting from the lords
Who's that really we leave out in the cold?
But they're depending, so you just keep giving pause
"I must defend it", oh, the tariffs hit you hard
Just keep adding up boy, you'll be below regard
We was written by BJ Burton & Justin Vernon & Brad Cook & Wheezy & Phil Cook & Andrew Sarlo.
We was produced by BJ Burton & Andrew Sarlo & Wheezy & Justin Vernon & Chris Messina & Brad Cook.
I was working on this idea one morning with this engineer, Josh Berg, who happened to be out with us. And this guy Bobby Raps from Minneapolis was also at my studio just kind of hanging around, and he brought this dude named Wheezy who does some Young Thug beats, some Future beats. So I had this lit...