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Saturday 2 October 2010

Bon Iver- Skinny Love Lyrics and Song Meaning

Come on skinny love just last the year
Pour a little salt we were never here
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer
  • Skinny love may be a reference to love wasting away, becoming skinny? Especially as it is followed by "Just last the year" meaning he doesn't want it to shrink away so soon. 
  • "Pour a little salt" could be reference to healing? as salt has healing properties and "we were never here" means that they could just forget everything that went wrong. 
  • "Sink of blood and crushes veneer" could link to a fight? Stereotypical domestic smashing plates ect. could have lead to a cut up hand being washed in the sink.
I tell my love to wreck it all
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Right in the moment this order's tall
  • "I tell my love to wreck it all" Perhaps telling her to just leave then, go on and throw away everything they had?
  • "Cut out all the ropes and let me fall" Telling her to let him go, cut away everything that ties him to her so the heartache stops?
I told you to be patient
I told you to be fine
I told you to be balanced
I told you to be kind
  • His expectations? or him just pleading with her to be patient- and things will get better, be fine- be happy, be balanced- consistent? and be kind- try to make it work, be nice to each other make each other happy rather than being bitter?
In the morning I'll be with you
But it will be a different "kind"
I'll be holding all the tickets 
And you'll be owning all the fines
  • Different "kind" I think could go two ways, it could be a reference to a literall opposite to being king and could mean a fight, or it could be a suttle reference to sex/intimacy perhaps trying to rekindle things.
  • "I'l be holding all the tickets, You'll be owning all the fines" could mean that she perhaps treats him badly? He knows everything he wants her to be maybe what she used to be and she is "holding fines" for failing to be the person he fell in love with?
Come on skinny love what happened here
Suckle on the hope in lite brassiere
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Sullen load is full; so slow on the split
  • "What happened here?" what's gone wrong?
  • "Suckle on the hope" asking her to keep trying, links to baby getting stronger as it suckles its mother? metaphorical to their love?
  • "Sullen load" a heavy, sad weight on his shoulders, things are getting slower and slower on "the split" perhaps literally meaning their parting.
I told you to be patient
I told you to be fine
I told you to be balanced
I told you to be kind

Now all your love is wasted?
Then who the hell was I?
Now I'm breaking at the britches
And at the end of all your lines
  • "All your love is wasted?" maybe she feels she has wasted her time on a hopeless relationship?
  • "Then who the hell was I?" She makes him feel he didn't mean alot to her? 
  • "Breaking at the britches at the end of all your lines" Everything she is saying is breaking him, he's pleaded with her to try and make it work and she has given up and see's the whole thing as a waste.
Who will love you?
Who will fight?
Who will fall far behind?
  • He is asking who will love her when she causes so much pain.
  • Who will fight through it? 
  • Who will fall, how many more people are going to fail to obtain her love?

1 comment:

  1. suckle on the hope of this lite brassiere
    i think it means someone's trying to get milk from a bra
    like trying to milk a rock, they are trying to get nourishment but the other person is not naked, which in a trech could mean they don't have intimacy, one is looking for skin the other gives a brassiere
    but I do think it means he's trying to get something he's not going to get, love or anything else

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