Re: Stacks by Bon Iver

Pretty Lyrics:

This my excavation and today is kumran
Everything that happens is from now on
This is pouring rain
This is paralyzed

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This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization
It's the sound of the unlocking and the lift away
Your love will be
Safe with me

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Pretty Interpretation:

"Kumran (usually spelled 'Qumran') is the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. It symbolizes a personal catharsis. Says Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) [regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls]:

When they found them it changed the whole course of Christianity, whether people wanted to know it or not. A lot of people chose to ignore it, a lot of people decided to run with it, and for many people it destroyed their faith, so I think I was just looking at it as a metaphor for whatever happens after that is new shit.

"The song also hints at a slow shedding of the skin, rather than a complete catharsis. It’s not a 'crispy realization' or a click of a lock in the door-—-a clean break from the past. In the final line he says that some of the past’s love will continue with him, like a pendant or a memory that won’t fade. . . . 'It is not about getting over things and moving forward, it is about going through the sadness, taking some of it with you and being made whole because of it.'"

---from http://wordsworthmedia.wordpress.com/, Bon Iver Excavates Kumran on “re: stacks”, July 14, 2008