Bon Iver - I, I Album Lyrics

Yeah

You recording, Trevor?
Yes

All my life
Ini was
Ooh, mine was a lover of a wrong kind
Keepin' what you tellin' me
I know mine

Livin' in a lonesome way
Had me lookin' other ways
('Cause I am, I am, I am lost here, again)
But on a bright fall morning, I'm with it
I stood a little while within it
Man, you have to know
Know the way it goes

Goes, goes
I am, I am, I am, I am
Go, go
I am, I am, I am, I am

If forgiveness is a chore
What you waiting for?
And we been here before?
And I can't ignore it anymore
You know the way it goes
How much longer then? (I'll show you in)
(I'll tell you why)

I am, I am, I am, I am
I am, I am, I am, I am

Ain't no say what I do in
Every day say they don't like it
I say, "Hey don't like it"
I say, "Hey don't like it"
I say, "Hey don't like it"
I say, "Hey don't like it"
I say

If that ain't just the truth
I am, I am, I am, I am
I like you
I like you
And that ain't nothin' new

And if it don't happen like that
Well then it don't happen at all
Keepin' what you tell me (said Ini)
Now I won't lie

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

What you think we're tamin' 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 comin' over for another story told
I'm sayin', 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

Danger been steppin' in
I'm happy as I ever been
Couldn't tell you what the cadence is
It's folded in the evidences

So you wanna leave a mark?
You're honing in on Meadow Park?
I heard you guys are very safe
Caught up with the featherweights

The dawn is rising
The land ain't rising, no
No, no
Flash hope
Pass the throw

Comin' in very late
Just above our pay grades
You ask me not to pull alarms
We have to act our ages

The dawn is rising
the land ain't rising, no
No, no
Catch up
You wanna go the fast way?

Bonded weights
Don't favor them
If it's all that you don't do
It's lacerate
And you better let them pass away

Stay, go?
Better that you find a new way
Before my eyes?
Couldn't learn it any other way
By the way

I waited outside
I took it remote
I wanted a bath
"Tell the story or he goes"
"Tell the story or he goes"

Full time, you talk your money up
While it's living in a coal mine
Tall time to call your Ma
Hey Ma, hey Ma
Tall vote, you know you mope it up
Well, you wanted it your whole life
You're back and forth with light

I waited outside
I was tokin' on dope
I hoped it all won't go in a minute
With the past that you know
I wanted all that mind, sugar
I want it all mine
I had a heavy mind, sugar
It took it, it was right

Full time, you talk your money up
While it's living in a coal mine
Tall time to call your Ma
Hey Ma, hey Ma
Tall vote, you know you mope it up
Well, you wanted it your whole life
You're back and forth with light

(Back and forth with light, back and forth)
(You're back and forth)
(Back, back, back and forth)

I waited outside
Then you took me in the room
And you offered up the truth
My eyes crawling up the window to the wall
From dusk 'til dawn
Let me talk to 'em
Let me talk to 'em all

Full time, you talk your money up
While it's living in a coal mine
Tall time to call your Ma
Hey Ma, hey Ma
Tall vote, you know you mope it up
Well, you wanted it your whole life
You're back and forth with light

Mmm
Mmm

I will see you off now down the back of the ridge
There's just something that I got to show you
There is domer and there's rot and the common case
It ain't nothin' what you say is true

With your long arms, try and just give some time
Presently, it does include my dues
Ain't your standard premonitions, all this phallic repetition
Boy, you tell yourself a tale or two

Man like you
Man, improve

Well, I know that we set off for a common place
And the lines have run too deep
How much caring is there of some American love
When there's lovers sleeping in our streets?

So Cerberus Ride! Bring those dead alive
Like Pirate Jenny on the Black Freighter
It'll be a long day of fixing, make something else your mission
Boy, why this shit so hard to cue?

Man like you
How you do?

More love
More love
More love

All along 'em I can hear me
I go for the caste
I fall off a bass boat
And the concrete's very slow
And the concrete's very slow
All along the sideline's bigger
I'm over the dash
I'm having a bad, bad toke
But the berries still to come
All along 'em I can hear you

I can hear, I can hear
I can hear, I can hear crying (I can hear)
I can hear cry (crying)
I can hear, I can hear (crying)
I can hear, I can hear crying
(I can hear, I can hear)

All along me I can hear you
I'd occupy that
Can't sit back long while you're forming that
Oh, my mind, our kids got bigger
But I'm climbing down the bastion now
You take me out to pasture now
Well, I won't be angry long
Well, I can't be angry long
We burnt up in my bed
Standing on the mattress, Laul
Laul, can't we just patch this up?
And I cannot seem to carry it all
All along we I can hear me

I can hear, I can hear
I can hear, I can hear crying (I can hear)
I can hear cry (crying)
I can hear, I can hear
I can hear, I can hear crying
I can hear crying
I can hear, I can hear
I can hear, I can hear crying
I can hear cry
I can hear, I can hear
I can hear, I can hear crying

All around me I can hear 'em
So what is gonna happen now?
If you don't look away
What's there to pontificate on now?
There's someone in my head
Tell them I'll be passing on
Tell them we're young mastodons
And it can't be that it's all
And it can't be that it's all
I'm telling you that I do feel you
It's suddenly paths, mama
It ain't about class, mama
And it won't be very long
Oh, it won't be very long

Hey-hey, hey-hey
Hey-hey, hey-hey

(I can hear)
I can hear (crying)
I can hear, I can hear (crying, crying)
I can hear
(I can hear crying)
(Crying, crying)

Whoa
Whoa
Whoa
Whoa

Well angel, mourn Sivanna
Well ain't been gone too far
But headed out towards Ponoma
Where you won't be alone

Where there's'is thrift store manager in a poke camadee
Had a gas mask on his arm
And one by one, by one
We'll all be gone

We'll all be gone by the fall
We'll all be gone by the falling light

Brick layer
With a hat down on his feet
I'll say no more
I won't let no cavalry

How long
Will you disregard the heat?
Half beat
It's no misnomer though

I've the feeling that I better go
So
I slide right out the door, oh

Shattered in history
Shattered in paint
Oh, and the lengths that I'd
Stay up late
But brought to my space
The wonderful things I've learned to waste

I shoulda known
That I shouldn't hide
To compromise and to covet
All what's inside
There is no design
You'll have to decide
If you'll come to know if I'm the faithful kind

Time and again
(Got all that I need)
It's time to be brave
Content to the phrases
That at dawn, we ain't mazes
Just some kind of pages

This for my sister
That for my maple
It's not going the road I'd known as a child of God
Nor to become stable
(So what if I lose? I'm satisfied)

Am I dependent in what I'm defending
And do we get to hold what faith provides?
Fold your hands into mine
Do I believe in
Seeing every time

I know it's lonely in the dark
And this year's a visitor
And we have to know that faith declines
I'm not all out of mine

Well, I thought that this was half a love
Well, I thought that this was half a love, love
Follow to the rising sea
Well, I thought that this was half of a love

Well, I thought that this was half a love
Well, I thought that this was half a love
Follow to the rising sea
Well, I thought that this was half a love

Ooh

When I'm fallin' to the right

Salem burns the leaves
Then she returns to cure and see
Heavy fate
After years of waitin'

'Cause abnormalities
Surely are everywhere you see
So what I think we need
Is elasticity
Empowerment and ease

So I won't lead no lie
With our hearts the only matter why
How long it's lasted
I've not received reciprocity

To speak supportively
Big guy, there's no automatic peace
But I bet you'd keep
All these in-betweens that bar my youth

Though no anorberic dream
Far as I know
I tried too hard to see
What I thought it'd be
Asking constantly
How's it gonna be?

So I'm gonna weep a while
You don't even know how hard
I've learned a lesson
Don't ask me
I've torn the banner from the line

Well you find the time
Don't you?
For the Lord
But you can find the time
Oh can't pass it around?

Fever last too long
Fever's rashing on
There's no fountain in Silver
How art?
How art?

Just calm down (calm down)
And she'll find time for the Lord

How often you gonna see now
Truly what you cease to be
Will you adjust your scenery
Well you find time don't you?
For the lord

But keep it rational
Keep it rational
There's no fountain

(If you wait, it won't be undone)

Well it's all just scared of dying
But isn't this a beach?
And if I know one thing at all
Is I cannot just be a peach
Oh, you come in all woke now
So, please enjoy the feast
We are weightless like a wayless beast
So what is it we don't teach?

When we were children we were hell bent
Or oblivious at least
But now it comes to mind, we are terrified
So we run and hide for a verified little peace

So what of this release?
Sunlight feels good now, don't it?
I don't have a leaving plan
But something's gotta ease your mind
But it's all fine or it's all crime anyway

There were six of us sitting creekside
Sifting fistfuls through the green
Every which way could be seen
Was the sand and time, not a pantomime
More like anodyne
Was a friend of mine you'd've known, you'd've known

I could prophet
I could rob I however
Everywhere isn't everywhere
This not a veil or a fairytale in the least
(So what of this release?)

So what of this release?
Some life feels good now, don't it?
Don't have to have a leaving plan
Nothing's gonna ease your mind
Well it's all fine and we're all fine anyway

(If you wait, it won't be undone)