From The Album "Self Record" (2005).

Lyrics:
We built a wall
Standing there, so big and tall
Keeping us
From the rust of what's hurting us all
To feel a spark
Of hope in the dark, no matter what the cost
To know that nothing
Ever will be completely lost

I'm at the wall
Staring, looking up at the names
Mistakes we've made
Broken families, no, these aren't just little games
Hand the torch
To the man who is looking for his blood
The warmth of searching
For the blood just might be enough

I am stable, I am breakable
I am boarded up and begging you
I am hoping, I am coping
It is storming out here
I am broken, I am stolen
I am chained up and begging you
I am bolder, I am older
I am just a brother, babe
I am spinning, I am hitting
I am loved but not gone
I am open, it is pouring in
Gonna make you love him more than you even can
The kid says mia, I say my-a
They freed us, no matter what I say
I am older, I am bolder
I am just a sister, babe
I am older, I am bolder
I am just a mother, babe
I am older, I am bolder
I am just a father, babe

Justin Vernon - Redemption: 1 (An Army Man And His Self-Discovery)

Bon Iver - Beth/Rest (piano version)

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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)

Bon Iver – For Emma (a cappella version for The Take Away Shows)

Bon Iver – For Emma (Live, A Cappella & With Instruments Versions from The Take Away Shows)

Bon Iver - Haven, Mass (B - Side)

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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)

I don´t own any rights, just like good music and love this tune for years.

For world peace,
for the good in us,
for health to everybody,
for a way.

The Whippgrass- Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)

Bon Iver - Skinny Love (Live Jools Holland 2008).mp3

Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything.

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

Svein Grimholt

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