29 #Strafford APTS

This song was created by co-producer BJ Burton and Bon Iver mainman Justin Vernon from an acoustic demo that Vernon had made. "It was exciting," Burton recalled to Uncut, "because we hadn't done this kind of thing with his music before, vary the speed and pitch, play with tape manipulation and deterioration. All those crackles on that song are from this weird tape machine I got in Greensboro, North Carolina, from some farmer's wife for $200." The title does not appear in the lyrics, but the Strafford Apartments may be its setting. Sharing smoke In the stair up off the hot car lot Sun shine hard on the video spot Hm, mm, mm, mm Vernon appears to be addressing somebody that he is smoking weed with in the Strafford apartment stairway. Bon Iver's drummer, Sean Carey accompanies Vernon on the vocals.

[Verse 1] Sharing smoke In the stair up off the hot car lot Sun shine hard on the video spot Hm, mm, mm, mm Sure as any living dream It's not all then what it seems And the whole thing's hauled away [Chorus] A womb An empty robe Enough You're rolling up You're holding it You're fabric now Paramind Paramind [Verse 2] Hallucinating Claire Nor the snow shoe light or the autumns Threw the meaning out the door (Now could you be a friend) There's no meaning anymore (Come and kiss me here again) [Chorus] A womb An empty robe Enough You're rolling up You're holding out You're bent prize Canonize Canonize [Bridge] Motor up and yeah, you're own, ooh And yeah you're on your own (Marijuana has you talkin'...) [Verse 3] Fold the map and mend the gap And I tow the word companion And I make my self escape Oh, the multitude of other It comes always off the page [Chorus] I hold the note You wrote and know You've buried all your alimony butterflies [Post-Chorus] Sub find Some night