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Local Natives covers Johnny Cash' Out Among The Stars. From the film "Johnny Cash - Out Among the Stars (With Brandon Flowers, Father John Misty & Local Natives)" directed by Arturo Perez Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTYgi9V34yI#t=607

This is NOT my track, nor do I own any rights. I just thought their performance in the film was brilliant and wanted to give people the ability to listen to it as an isolated track.

LYRICS:

It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas
Closing time another day is done
When a boy walked in the door and points a pistol
He can't find a job, but Lord, he's found a gun

He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation
Then he lets the old man run out in the street
Even though he knows they'll come with guns a blazing
Already he can feel a great relief

Oh, how many travelers get weary
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
Don't you think they'd love to start all over
And fly like eagles out among the stars?

He pictures the arrival of the cruisers
Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes
He knows that when they're shooting at this loser
They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives

Oh, how many travelers get weary
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
Don't you think they'd love to start all over
And fly like eagles out among the stars?

The evening news carries all the details
He dies in every living room in town
And in his own a bottle's thrown in anger
And his father cries, he'll never live this down

Oh, how many travelers get weary
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
Don't you think they'd love to start all over
And fly like eagles out among the stars
And fly like eagles out among the stars

Bon Iver - Hinnom, TX (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)

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Justin Vernon and Sean Carey at the 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session. Amazing performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Tp5fl18Ho#t=189

This is NOT my track, nor do I own any rights. I just thought their brilliant performance deserved it's own isolated upload.

LYRICS:

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

Bet
is hardly shown
scraped
across the foam
like they stole it
and oh, how they hold it

Claire, we nearly forfeit

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

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

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
where the cracks at in the low part of the stoning

Bon Iver - Wash. (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)

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Justin Vernon and Sean Carey at the 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session. Amazing performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Tp5fl18Ho#t=491

This is NOT my track, nor do I own any rights. I just thought their brilliant performance deserved it's own isolated upload.

LYRICS:

Turn down the lights,
turn down the bed,
turn down these voices,
inside my head

Lay down with me,
tell me no lies,
just hold me close,
don't patronize me [2x]

Cause I can't make you love me
if you don't,
you can't make your heart feel
something it wont,
here in the dark,
these final words
I will lay down my heart
and I feel the power
but you don't, 
no you don't

Cause I can't make you love me,
if you don't [2x]

I'll close my eyes, 
Then I wont see
The love you don't feel,
when you're holding me
Morning will come, 
and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then
To give up this fight
And I will give up this fight...

Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
I can't make your heart feel,
something it wont,
Here in the dark
These final words
I will lay down my heart
And I feel the power
but you don't,
no you don't

I can't make you love me if you don't 
If you don't,
no you, no you wont

I found love darlin' [5x]
Love in the nick of time 
I found love darlin' yeah,
Love in the nick of time

Bon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)

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Justin Vernon and Sean Carey at the 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session. Amazing performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Tp5fl18Ho#t=759

This is NOT my track, nor do I own any rights. I just thought their brilliant performance deserved it's own isolated upload.

LYRICS:

Summer comes to multiply, to multiply
Summer comes to multiply, to multiply

And I, I'm the carnival of peace
I'll probably start a fleet with no apologies
And the carnival of scenes, it grows more and more appealing
But my woman and I, my woman and I know what we're for

Summer comes to multiply, to multiply
Summer comes to multiply, to multiply

Bon Iver - Babys (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)

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Justin Vernon and Sean Carey at the 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session. Amazing performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Tp5fl18Ho#t=1111

This is NOT my track, nor do I own any rights. I just thought their brilliant performance deserved it's own isolated upload.

LYRICS:

Errant heat to the star
And the rain let in
The hawser rolls, the vessel’s whole and Christ, it’s thin

Well Iʼd know that you’d offer
Would reveal it, though it’s soft and flat
Won’t repeat it, cull and coffer’s that
For the soffit, hang this homeward
Pry it open with your love
Sending lost and alone standing offers

It is steep / it is stone
Such recovery
From the daily press, the deepest nest, in keeper’s keep

All the news at the door
Such a revelry
Well, it’s hocked inside of everything you said to me

It was found what we orphaned
Didn’t mention it would serve us picked
Said your love is known
I’m standing up on it

Aren’t we married?!
I ainʼt living in the dark no more
It’s not a promise, Iʼm just gonna call it

Heavy mitted love

Our love is a star
Sure some hazardry
For the light before and after most indefinitely

Danger has been stole away

This is axiom

Bon Iver - Beth/Rest (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)

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Iron & Wine's performance at the 4AD Session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrcPRw6yYU

LYRICS:

Mary Anne, do you remember
the tree by the river
when we were seventeen?

Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer
and the mare in the pasture
pitch black and baring its teeth.

I recall the sun in our faces,
stuck and leaning on braces,
and being strangers to change.

Radio and the bones we found frozen,
and all the thorns and the roses
beneath your window pane.

Now I'm asleep in a car, I mean the world
to a potty-mouth girl,
a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.

Time isn't kind or unkind, you liked to say.
But I wonder to who
what it is you're saying today.

Now I'm asleep in a car, I mean the world
to a potty-mouth girl,
a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.

Time isn't kind or unkind, you liked to say.
But I wonder to who
what it is you're saying today.

Mary Anne, do you remember
the tree by the river
when we were seventeen?

Dark canyon road, I was coy in the half-moon;
happy just to be with you,
and you were happy for me.

Iron And Wine - Tree By The River (4AD Session)

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Iron & Wine's performance at the 4AD Session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrcPRw6yYU#t=213

LYRICS:

May your eyes be wide and seeing
May you learn from the view where you're kneeling
Know the fear of the world that you're feeling 
Is the fear of a slave

May you know how the fight was started 
Won' as much from the snake as the garden
Wear them both like a glove that you can't wain

May your mouth betray your wisdom
May you get what they failed to mention
May your love be your only religion
Preach it to us all

May you lose what you offer gladly 
May you worship the time and it's passing
Stars wont ever wait for you to watch them fall

We're the smoke on a burned horizon 
We're the boat on a tide that's rising
Both the post and the pig you're untying 
The butcher gone for the blade

Someday we may all be happy
Someday all make a face worth slapping 
Someday we may be shocked to be laughing 
At the way we behave

May your hands be strong and willing
May you know when to speak and to listen 
May you find every friend that you're missing
There's no check in the mail

May you end there bruised and purple
Know that peace is the shape of a circle
Around and around you go, biting your tail

Little children, the wind is whipping 
Short hands on a clock still ticking 
Both the egg and the red fox grinning 
His belly full for the day

Someday we may all want nothing
And I'll forget we'll get what's coming
Someday I'll say the world was something 
That we just couldn't change

May your tongue be something wicked
Know your part in the calf and the killing 
See straight through the captain you're kissing
Helm loose in his hand

May your words be well worth stealing
Put your hand on your heart when singing
The choir's sick of the song but they've still got to stand

Iron And Wine - Biting Your Tail (4AD Sessions)

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Iron & Wine's performance at the 4AD Session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrcPRw6yYU#t=426

LYRICS:

When the arrogant goddess of love came to steal my shoes
She had a white-hot pistol and a homemade heart tattoo
Singing, "one's to give and one's to take away
But neither of them will keep you off your knees"
Her children bowed ad bolted off the stage
While the lion and the lamb kept fighting for the shade tree

When the winsome god of war came to set me free
He had a couple of coke bottles full of gasoline
Singing, "all I love is all that I allow"
And he blew me a kiss off a big burned hand
I nearly choked with smoke and fell down
While the lion and the lamb kept shooting at a tin can

When the gun shy goddess of love came back to patch things up
She had a purple heart and mother's milk in a plastic cup
Singing, "one will lay you gently in the grave
And one's the flag you fold before you go"
When the curtain rose the crowd was blown away
While the lion and the lamb kept fucking in the back row

Iron And Wine - Big Burned Hand (4AD Session)

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Iron & Wine's performance at the 4AD Session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrcPRw6yYU#t=601

LYRICS:

Halfway home in the hilltop trees
And all our footprints in the snow
And the evening glow leaving

Low night noise in the wintertime
I lay beside you on the floor
Counting your breathing

Cause I can't see nothing in this half moon
Lay me down if I should lose you.

Halfway-working on a worn-out house
And all our friends the ragged crows
And aching bones whining.

Where are we when the twilight comes?
The dark of valley and the breeze
And the frozen leaves chiming?

Cause I can't see nothing in this half moon
Lay me down if I should lose you...

Iron And Wine - Half Moon (4AD Session)

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Iron & Wine's performance at the 4AD Session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrcPRw6yYU#t=776

LYRICS:

Mother don't worry
I killed the last snake that lived in the creek bed
Mother don't worry
I've got some money I saved for the weekend
Mother, remember being so stern
With that girl who was with me?
Mother, remember the blink of an eye
When I breathed through your body?

So may the sunrise bring hope
Where it once was forgotten
Sons are like birds
Flying upward over the mountain

Mother, I made it up
From the bruise on a floor of this prison
Mother, I lost it
All of the fear of the Lord I was given
Mother forget me
Now that the creek drank the cradle you sang to
Mother forgive me
I sold your car for the shoes that I gave you

So may the sunrise bring hope
Where it once was forgotten
Sons can be birds 
Taken broken up to the mountain

Mother, don't worry
I've got a coat and some friends on the corner
Mother, don't worry
She's got a garden we're planting together
Mother, remember the night
That the dog had her pups in the pantry?
Blood on the floor and the fleas on their paws
And you cried 'til the morning

So may the sunrise bring hope
Where it once was forgotten
Sons are like birds 
Flying always over the mountain

Iron And Wine - Upward Over The Mountain (4AD Session)

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Father John Misty covers Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" in honour of them being named CBC Music's Best Canadian Band of all Time.

Indie star Father John Misty stopped by the b.b. gun's The Shed while in Vancouver on tour. Misty immediately picked up on the vibe of the little room and played an exclusive set to an audience of about 25 people. This is the b.b. gun session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krmom_hjEE

LYRICS:

In the suburbs I
I learned to drive
And you told me we'd never survive
Grab your mother's keys we're leavin'

You always seemed so sure
That one day we'd be fighting
In a suburban war
Your part of town against mine
I saw you standing on the opposite shore

But by the time the first bombs fell
We were already bored
We were already, already bored

Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm movin' past the feeling
Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm movin' past the feeling again

Kids wanna be so hard
But in my dreams we're still runnin' and screamin' through the yard
And all of the walls that they built in the seventies finally fall
And all of the houses they built in the seventies finally fall
Meant nothin' at all
Meant nothin' at all
It meant nothin

Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm movin' past the feeling
Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm movin' past the feeling and into the night

So can you understand?
Why I want a daughter while I'm still young
I wanna hold her hand
And show her some beauty
Before all this damage is done

But if it's too much to ask, if it's too much to ask
Then send me a son

Under the overpass
In the parking lot we're still waiting
It's already past
So move your feet from hot pavement and into the grass
Cause it's already past
It's already, already past

Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm movin' past the feeling
Sometimes I can't believe it
I'm movin' past the feeling again

I'm movin' past the feeling
I'm movin' past the feeling

In my dreams we're still screamin'
We're still screamin'
We're still screamin'

Father John Misty - The Suburbs (Arcade Fire cover)

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Taken from Bon Iver's much loved 2007 debut album 'For Emma, Forever Ago', fan favourite 'Creature Fear' journeyed from soft ethereal acoustics to thumping rock mayhem. A thrilling highlight from their world premiere performances of 'Cercle' at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE festival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L05VwDlgWE

LYRICS:
I was full by your count
I was lost but your fool
Was a long visit wrong?
Say you are the only

So many foreign worlds
So relatively fucked
So ready for us
So ready for us
The creature fear

I was teased by your blouse
Spit out by your mouth
I was loud by your lowered
Seminary soul

Tear on tail on
Take all on the wind on
The soft bloody nose
Sign another floor

The so many territories
Ready to reform
Don't let it form us
Don't let it form us
The creature fear

So did he foil his own?
Is he ready to reform?
So many torahs
So many for us
The creature fear

Bon Iver - Creature Fear (Vivid LIVE 2016)

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A song about fear, childhood and the changing of seasons, the tender 'Michicant' featured not only the achingly beautiful falsetto of Bon Iver but also a breathtaking alto sax solo from bassist Michael Lewis. A stunning highlight from their world premiere performances of 'Cercle' at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE festival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMue0xUbV5g

LYRICS:
I was unafraid, I was a boy, I was a tender age
Melic in the naked, knew a lake and drew the lofts for page
Hurdle all the waitings up, know it wasn't wedded love
4 long minutes end and it was over it'd all be back
And the frost took up the eyes

Pressed against the pane could see the veins and there was poison out
Resting in a raze the inner claims I hadn't breadth to shake
Searching for an inner clout, may not take another bout
Honey in the hale could fill the pales of loving less with vain
Hon, it wasn't yet the spring

Aiming and it sunk and we were drunk and we had fleshed it out
Nose up in the globes, you never know if you are passing out
No it wasn't maiden-up, the falling or the faded luck
Hung up in the ivory, both were climbing for a finer cause
Love can hardly leave the room
With your heart

Bon Iver - Michicant (Vivid LIVE 2016)

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A stripped-back acoustic rendition of 'Calgary' taken from Bon Iver's world premiere performances of 'Cercle' at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE festival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01YD6v5TYqs

LYRICS:
Don't you cherish me to sleep
Oh
Never keep your eyelids clipped
Hold me for the pops and clicks
I was only for the father's crib

Hair, old, long along
Your neck onto your shoulder blades
Oh
Always keep that message taped
Cross your breasts you won't erase
I was only for your very space

Hip, under nothing
Propped up by your other one
Face 'way from the sun
Just have to keep a dialogue
Teach our bodies, haunt the cause
I was only trying to spell a loss

Joy, it's all founded
Pincher with the skin inside
Oh
You pinned me with your black sphere eyes
You know that all the rope's untied
I was only for to die beside

So it's storming on the lake
Little waves our bodies break
There's a fire going out
But there's really nothing to the south
Swollen orange and light let through
Your one-piece swimmer stuck to you

Sold, I'm ever
Open ears and open eyes
Oh
Wake up to your starboard bride
Who goes in and then stays inside
Oh, the demons come, they can subside

Bon Iver - Calgary (Vivid LIVE 2016)

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Joined onstage by the beautiful harmonies of British folk trio The Staves, Bon Iver delivered a soul-stirring acapella rendition of 'Heavenly Father'. A perfect finale to their world premiere performances of 'Cercle' at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE festival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAoADCSpD-8

LYRICS:
Ever since I heard the howlin' wind
I didn't need to go where a bible went
But then you know your gifts seemed heaven sent
Just lead me to a choler, dad, that's the thing

I don't know how you house the sin
But you're free now
I was never sure how much of you I could let in
Am I free now
Won't you settle down baby here your love has been
Heavenly father
It’s defiantly lava
Why you don't carry other names?

Heard about a day where it dropped the Know
To go another day as we learn to close
Cause I'm a known coward in a coward wind
But you’re free now
You turn around now and you count to 10
To see you go now
Well I know now honey that I can't pretend
Heavenly father
Is whose brought to his autumn
And love is left in end

I just been up here for god damn years
Can you see now?
Filling up hulls with god damn fears
I am free now
I know about it darlin', I've been standin' here
Heavenly father
Is all that he offers
A safety in the end

Bon Iver - Heavenly Father (Vivid LIVE 2016)

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Justin Vernon reimagines the stirring folk melody of "Beth/Rest" with solo saxaphone, played by Michael Lewis. This was captured at Bon Iver's now-legendary performance of "Cercle" at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmtjI3ox620

LYRICS:
Errant heat to the star
And the rain let in
And the hawser rolls, the vessel's whole and Christ, it's thin

Well, Iʼd know that you'd offer
Would reveal it, though it's soft and flat
Won't repeat it, cull and coffers that
For the soffit, hang this homeward
Pry it open with your love
Sending lost and alone standing offers

It is steep, it is stone
Such recovery
From the daily press, the deepest nest, in keeper's keep
All the news at the door
Such a revelry
Well, it's hocked inside of everything you said to me

It was found what we orphaned
Didn't mention it would serve us picked
Said your love is known, I'm standing up on it
Aren't we married?!
I ainʼt living in the dark no more
It's not a promise, Iʼm just gonna call it

Heavy mitted love
Our love is a star
Sure some hazardry
For the light before and after most indefinitely
Danger has been stole away

This is Axiom

Bon Iver - Beth/Rest (Vivid LIVE 2016)

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