Bon Iver - RABi - Official Video

[@KieronSchenko]

Something that will never cease to amaze me about Bon Iver is Justin Vernon’s ability to spin riddles, often grammatically nonsensical lyrics, full of intrigue and mystery, and somehow make it the most relatable story you’ve ever heard.

[@piersnivans5983]

Thank you for giving me a way to explain it!

[@samwheat2480]

This.

[@KieronSchenko]

@@keysersoze6156 grammatically nonsensical, I said.

[@KieronSchenko]

@@keysersoze6156 no not at all, it’s all good!

[@andrewnonnenmacher5817]

With some nuggets of clarity…”when we were children we were hellbent, or oblivious at least. Now it comes to mind, we are terrified, so we run and hide, for some verified little peace.”

[@thejesuschrist]

These lyric videos are glorious!

[@rubenskorstad1128]

I love you man

[@rastaguru13]

Amen! 🙏🏼🕊

[@jakmerriman4499]

oh, my Lord (pardon the irony), Jesus likes Bon Iver, too.

[@Benjamin-hb6uy]

I have to laught

[@nietsnik]

Good to see Jesus got great taste :P

[@ArchitectGG]

I get it. This speaks to my soul. I was hell bent and oblivious, now the world terrifies me and all I seek is peace. I've had a leaving plan for years. "Who cares what happens, if it gets REALLY bad I can just 'leave'. That's my peace. But we don't have to have leaving plans. "Some life feels good, don't it?" Yeah, I guess it does. I hope others understand the song in the same way. It would be good to speak to others who connect with this song

[@mathildeb2710]

I'm on this level too - this song makes so much sense to me too - coming to terms with having felt like leaving all this bullshit behind but it's all fine and we're all fine anyway

[@jayaye6]

I'm with ya. The brainwash of Christianity didn't work on me and it took me a long time to decypher all of the noise. This song bottles it all up so easily. Don't have to have a leaving plan...

[@R_A120]

Its 'sunlight feels good' not 'some life'

[@ArchitectGG]

@@R_A120 It's both. Watch the video, read the lyrics.

[@R_A120]

@@ArchitectGG Dang you right, thanks for the correction

[@thehazelwitch4575]

idk what’s going on but I’m not gonna question it. thank you bon iver for a completely unexpected, beautiful day.

[@alejandrordo]

How do you do it? How do you connect at the same time with so many people all around the world? How is it that all your creations feel so intimate and instantly become part of our lives? Thank you Bon Iver, thank you Justin for sharing your emotions with the rest of us.

[@alecharden9863]

22 days until the new album drops and we basically get the entire album today 🙌 22 a million lives on

[@Kleoath]

"I don't have a leaving plan" "sun light feels good now don't it" These lyrics are very representative of my life right now. Bon Iver always seems to know how I feel with their releases. Making me feel at peace when I'm sad and making me feel grateful when I'm happy. I think this is my new favourite song.

[@mars3857]

BlueRrew exactly! That’s how I feel too!

[@quentinmcbullwinkle9805]

It's all about you.

[@xoxox1031]

I love u Justin, thanks for this amazing music. Colombia loves u

[@bobjohnson6917]

This was the perfect way to release an album

[@cappuccino04]

I’ve always knew Foucault had some good musical taste!

[@dapogorman4572]

This album is a product of PoWeR ReLaTiOns

[@thejesuschrist]

amen!

[@mmii869]

@@thejesuschrist wait, Jesus listens to Bon Iver? Truly this is the strangest timeline

[@johanng2076]

@@thejesuschrist Heavenly Father 🙌

[@7joshronaldo]

Justin nows feels liberated in the truth instead of drowning... there’s so much to accept about... the animation really completes the whole thing

[@shimonweinbach2248]

I think the song is part of a larger theme of him losing and finding a new, transformed type of faith. I think a lot of 22 a million deals with that theme already, but in this album he is more resolute - there doesn't need to be a faith in God disconnected from this earth, no need for concepts of heaven and hell (although he does admit that this is a beach). Heaven, the next world, God, can all be safety nets protecting us from really feeling what this life is and admitting that we don't know (well its all fine or its all crime anyway). So there is this departure from the faith in the unseen god, which is faith that is just a thought, an assurance, and entrance into faith which is based in actually Experiencing the goodness, actually being able to feel at home in this world with full acceptance of what is (sunlight feels good now, don't it?), actually leaning into this world unconditionally with no leaving plan. It's interesting to see Justin's development from 22 a million to this album. t666 is replete with references to his relation to prayer. On the one hand Justin sings "I'm still standing in the need of prayer" (followed by a circuitry-laden high pitched yell) but also implores "please come off your kneel". He still needs prayer, still needs to turn to the divine, but we can feel that he is conflicted by this type of prayer, that it's a need he would rather do without. On i,i, "faith" countervails this attitude, showing that Justin has transformed from needing that proverbial "fix" of prayer to reassure him (It's not going the road I'd known as a child of God Nor to become stable(So what if I lose? I'm satisfied)) God is not something to hold on to. He no longer needs Religion and faith to buttress his insecurities and provide a safety net. He has come to terms with the fact that, yes, he may lose, but he is satisfied with that as well. But this doesn't mean he is out of faith. Justin writes "I know it's lonely in the dark/And this year's a visitor/And we have to know that faith declines/I'm not all out of mine" In the interim between our loss of one system of faith, and before finding the new, transformed one, we all have to grapple with that darkness, with that dead space in between who we were, and who we are becoming. Recall that each of Bon Iver's albums reflect a different season. The promo video for i,i hailed the album as being the season of fall. On the track "iMi" Justin sings "Livin' in a lonesome way/Had me lookin' other ways/ ('Cause I am, I am, I am lost here, again)/ But on a bright fall morning, I'm with it/I stood a little while within it/ Man, you have to know/Know the way it goes) In the fall it seems as if everything is dying. Justin stands on a bright fall morning with his old faith dead, his compass is outdated, and as we all know, that brings loneliness, confusion, directionless. Whereas perhaps the Justin Vernon of 22 A Million, might have kneeled and prayed and wept and asked for guidance, here he stands a little while within it. Justin is no longer standing "in the need for prayer" but standing within it. He accepts that he cannot pray himself out of his troubles, cannot swim against the tide of the apparent nonsensical absurdity that reality is (there is no design!). And so he just stand a little while within it, without running away. And that is where the magic happens. In that interim of unknowing, of coming to terms with our own emotions, with what we are feeling, instead of what we "believe in" we start to feel that good, good sunlight. Justin implores others to to remember "the way it goes". That this is the cycle of life. In nature and in ourselves. So, we have to know that faith declines, but Justin reassures us that he isn't out of all of his faith. It's just a different one. One not lost in ideologies or belief systems -- what leads to being weightless beasts” but one found in what is called in the Bible the Living God. The God that IS. HERE and NOW. Sunlight feel good now don't it?

[@zac-zooey]

Hearing this live last January gave me chills to my spine and had me weeping through the lines... "Don't have to have a leaving plan.. Nothing's gonna ease your mind" Justin's talent is in another level that it cures your soul deeply. Best concert investment of my life, so far!

[@jessicadesmarais23]

He has this way of making me shiver. The magic just happens everytime.

[@irenee5024]

How do I tattoo a video?

[@MasDouc]

You'd look like such a tool with all this garbage tattooed on you

[@irenee5024]

@Manguy mcDudebro its actually pretty big tho

[@irenee5024]

@@MasDouc that's your opinion

[@dr.feather123]

@@MasDouc your username kind of tells me you didn't mean to say all of those shenanigans in your comment, but if my gut feeling isn't right, then you truly deserve it.

[@MasDouc]

@@dr.feather123 I'll let you figure it out

[@SaiKishoreG]

I gotta say I'm lucky.. almost sleeping time here in India and I come across this and its all kinds of nostalgia..

[@mizzdee021]

Bon Iver: announces to release new album on 30th of August Also Bon Iver: releases new album 22 days earlier than said release date.

[@samonthebrink]

this is probably my favorite off of the whole album

[@annamzon]

The part from 2:25 - 2:53 is just absolutely stunning

[@hydrola7956]

And fucking beautiful, about armonics.

[@gbluecheez]

Thank you justin and co. For another amazing album 😍

[@incognitoct]

Amazing performer. Love how his voice is used like an instrument

[@tomasandrada8631]

There are no words to describe how amazing your music is. i love you justin vernon

[@woebegone_kenobi]

Just listened to all of 22, a million... So glad another song came out today

[@sabrinap8050]

There’s so much going on in this, I think I just felt over a thousand emotions at once...

[@meepsleep]

this is top 4 favorite videos on the internet of all time

[@AlexisLeague]

22 days to go, a million reasons to love the album already

[@nunopena3871]

22, a million

[@tom88irl1]

I never listen to ANY song on repeat but today this song changed all that!

[@caresseofficial6741]

Bon Iver is a whole new landscape and here we can see a small creek.

[@marcdejager2178]

Blessed to be here so early. Thank you Justin Vernon.

[@ThommyKane]

this song is about living in the moment. I got it completely.

[@katierountree6856]

Oh Bon Iver, I love you. So heart touching. Every time.

[@lucascosta9775]

this guitars have such a "Who are you" and "Hold on" Tom waits Vibe!

[@EMƏRSON]

Editor: How creative you want? Bon Iver: Just a lil' bit.

[@meltedusb7533]

abstract*

[@liammartin686]

Did anyone else shed tears? Not something I was really anticipating.... Thank you Justin and co.

[@b.andromeda]

release date august 30, 22 days early....... 22....... 22 a million. Also the purple "if you wait" is the same font as "keep waking up high" from 8 circle, just a thought :) O also just a little thing- this is the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed but it has also ruined my life because nothing else can ever close to being this beautiful.

[@JDfromTBC]

IT MIGHT BE OVER SOON but I DON'T HAVE A LEAVING PLAN

[@oli7120]

soOooOoOn

[@samnorris6533]

Twoooo twoooooo

[@ArchitectGG]

Aaaahhhhhh

[@mayito3334]

god that line just hits home

[@michaelhenry6190]

It’s all fine and we’re all fine. 🙏☺️

[@ellajacob7102]

They’ve done it again. Justin is a god damn genius.

[@samuellovett2592]

Bon Iver is one of many reasons, why I became inspired to learn how to play music. Been playing guitar for 10 years and counting now. Thanks a million and keep on keepin' on Justin!

[@fernandocontreras8389]

Do you know the chords for this one?

[@marcellustone]

Well it's all just scared of dying But isn't this a beach? And if I know one thing at all Is I cannot just be a peach Oh, you come in all woke now So, please enjoy the feast We are weightless like a wayless beast So what is it we don't teach? When we were children we were hell bent Or oblivious at least But now it comes to mind, we are terrified So we run and hide for a verified little peace So what of this release? Sunlight feels good now, don't it? I don't have a leaving plan But something's gotta ease your mind But it's all fine or it's all crime anyway There were six of us sitting creekside Sifting fistfuls through the green Every which way could be seen Was the sand and time, not a pantomime More like anodyne Was a friend of mine you'd've…

[@dominicschorr]

helping me cry today. Thank you

[@gabecoyne9903]

I could profit (prophet), I could rob I (rabi) 👌

[@earthprisoner127]

I had a bad break up and got depressed then listened to For Emma album. And now it sure is sunlight feels good 🥲

[@oscarreyesreyes1938]

best song on the album

[@dunken27]

Best track on the Album for me..right up there with the video too. Superb!

[@sph33_]

Thanks for making the world a better place

[@chevronlotussacredsounds8541]

This album is beyond beautiful. I am torn and crushed inside of my life. This piece of art is healing. Thank you. Bless.👽

[@jakmerriman4499]

my personal favourite - I feel as though this piece, like 'Faith', tells a story of delusion, a tale of believing there is more to life (a seemingly captivating ideal, however, in truth, a parasite that manifests itself into a lack of appreciation for what we have now).

[@quandovcmenosesperarumaarm5786]

Eu me sinto tão bem escutando as músicas dele. Me dá uma paz ❤❤🌾

[@grandmotherproductions9380]

Holy s***, this is f***ING Beautiful

[@lionmenmusic6144]

i think bon iver opens his best novels and randomly picks lines and makes a song from them YOU THINK IT TOO

[@PotatoIsNotCute]

The ending of this album, this reigning in of autumn crisp, is Bon Iver's first time out of the shade. After three (four with Blood Bank) albums of first longing, then loneliness, then emotional power, and then existential confusion, "some life feels good now, don't it?" This song isn't scared of the future. Maybe a bit nervous, but not scared. It's ready. Because what's ahead is bright. I love this song so much.

[@coreybrown4920]

Thanks for a great morning Justin! After a few listens, I think this might be the best of the album

[@savehila7380]

My interpretation of the song is about coming to grips with mortality obviously by the first few lyrics “well it’s all just scared of dying” and later “something’s gotta ease your mind”. And the interesting thing is the imagery reflects Dante’s decent into Hell, with the three headed dogs (Cerberus), angels (Virgil), devils, Ancient Greek pillars (referring to Aristotle in the 1st level of hell) & also at 2:51 the yellow circle thing that sort of resembles Dante’s map of the levels of hell. That’s all I could find and I’m not sure if it’s even intentional.

[@scottrichardson5401]

Im sure it is intended

[@SethDombachProductions]

My heart is so full

[@b.frankvisuals]

As for me, this might be the most important song of my life. Do you think it was written just for me? I don’t want a different clan. To re-release a different plan. Than the one that we have among us. Some life feels good now don’t it?

[@mathildeb2710]

If you wait it won't be undone...

[@Hamuelin]

i, i releases August 30th... I think you may wanna rethink that lmfao, we're 22 days off and only need one more 30 sec track xD

[@Em4gdn1m]

damn, really? all but 1- 30sec track has been released?

[@tukikizi9175]

It's not necessary, believe me.

[@lukeberrie3942]

I’m assuming this has something to do with the listening parties that happened last night. Justin probably assumed the album would leak so he said “fuck it” and released the whole thing 😂 Also, Yi (the first song) is loitering around somewhere on the Bon Iver subreddit. Seek it out if you haven’t already :)

[@harrylongman9262]

and the 30 sec track is on reddit. (justin posted himself with username u/eauxclairesWI )

[@BearHeart13]

An amazing composition and lyrics; combined, they hit me in the gut before I even knew the words.

[@JacquesEllis]

Very Dylan, love it. Probably my favourite song

[@serialkizza]

Man this song just makes me feel a bittersweet happiness - everything will and is going to be alright we got this people

[@arwenathelmsdeep]

this sound sorta echoes Big Red Machine's "Gratitude" and that makes me love it even more

[@ANDRENEVERDIE21]

Noticed that too🤗

[@allssfm]

Just one more song and that's it! The new full album will be here for us to enjoy. Such a great day!!

[@tomwesley1170]

The intro probably wont be uploaded here. It's already available on reddit though. Sadly everything is out now.

[@allssfm]

@@tomwesley1170 Thanks! Didn't know that. Is "Yi" just a instrumental opening?

[@tomwesley1170]

@@allssfm it is a very short instrumental opening, yes.

[@kh.adeebahmed2528]

#BonIver never ceases to amaze us, and I think I speak for all of us on this.

[@thatguyjavi]

ALBUM OF THE YEAR GUARANTEED

[@giuseppe4569]

Those great sounds...

[@wendyherrera]

YES THEY GAVE US A NEW SONG EVERY HOUR IM SO EXCITEEEDDDD

[@JiroAndroid]

If 22, A Million was like Bon Iver's Kid A, then this album was A Moon Shaped Pool.

[@TheGreatConstantini]

I don’t what to say. Beautiful. Extracting meaning is fun, but perhaps futile. As many have noted, Fears, mortality, living in the moment. I also feel there’s some message about race and acceptance. But the best thing is that it doesn’t really matter. It makes me feel good. And if that is Justins intention, it worked. Sometimes I just try to look at the Bon Iver work as poetry deep fried in music. Crisp and satisfying!

[@catspurlee]

Me after listening to every song: This is my favorite.

[@alexandraappel4712]

me too

[@shrexyeverafter]

Renchie Chavaria imogen!!!!! 💗

[@catspurlee]

@@shrexyeverafter yeeeessss. I looove her too 😊

[@tristanruff3546]

Why is everyone so sure this album is complete perfect? I love some of the songs and I'm pretty sure I will like the rest, but u can't judge a bon iver album before hearing it at least 10 times in the right order.

[@mathildeb2710]

you can though

[@imcryingbutthatsok9229]

Just to let you know, all the way from a small little country in southeast Asia. We love you Justin.

[@BreyMusicTV]

this is so beautiful in such a trippy way

[@whatson94]

my favorite so far

[@Kelsouzap]

ell it's all just scared of dying But isn't this a beach? And if I know one thing at all Is I cannot just be a peach Oh, you come in all woke now So, please enjoy the feast We are weightless like a wayless beast So what is it we don't teach? When we were children we were hell bent Or oblivious at least But now it comes to mind, we are terrified So we run and hide for a verified little peace So what of this release? Sunlight feels good now, don't it? I don't have a leaving plan But something's gotta ease your mind But it's all fine or it's all crime anyway There were six of us sitting creekside Sifting fistfuls through the green Every which way could be seen Was the sand and time not a pantomime More like anodyne Was a friend of mine you'd've known, you'd've known I could prophet I could rob I however Everywhere isn't everywhere This not a veil or a fairytale in the least (So what of this release?) So what of this release? Some life feels good now, don't it? Don't have to have a leaving plan Nothing's gonna ease your mind Well it's all fine and we're all fine anyway

[@DanielZeeglerMusic]

These new songs are so beautiful and full of space- great work y’all

[@emilylouise158]

I can't stop listening to this song

[@psychrockvinyl]

Could watch and listen to this all day

[@hedi_dreamland]

2024 still awesome When I decided to reach my goal, I met this song❤

[@henkjanssen1252]

This reminds me a lot of the work that Justin released before Bon Iver, i.e. We Will Never Die... good times.

[@Rowan_C]

I want to be able to handle this all.

[@Em4gdn1m]

Might take some time my friend. 22, A Million took me a while to be able to slightly grasp it all.

[@cincylaw14]

Enjoy the ride

[@PushingUpDazies76]

It's our minds ... Running, thinking and now rethinking.... 👆

[@luispiano9691]

I love sharing these songs with witchy spiritual friends. They can understand that the title doesn’t necessarily define the content. Alchemy…

[@psychrockvinyl]

Man i just can’t get enough of this

[@abcd-ro1qs]

This song kinda starts like good ole 'head music' reminiscent of the 60s a bit - the lyrics simple, simplistically moving---'fairy tales' 'six of us sitting creek side' - taking me back to my childhood and the little creek behind my house - how we knew every creature that lived on that stretch and I do believe they knew us - they never bothered to hop or crawl or slither away from my brother catching them - giving up the chase and being docile in his hands as he caught them up and carried them closer to me so I could marvel at them and caution, "Don't hurt them Jimmy, they trust us." None of us having a 'leaving plan'. 'Well we're all fine and it's all crime anyway!'

[@tonetao8038]

This one is even more most excellent

[@babydoe7504]

Mhmm. Yes. Counting down the days until Vail. This is brilliant.

[@camillagama3656]

Várias músicas novas de Bon Iver hoje, obrigada Deus eu sei que tu me sondas

[@ktsp9698]

Era tudo que eu precisava 💜

[@gabrieldias7937]

Br's que curtem Bon Iver

[@pulguinha1303]

Amém

[@eusalvador]

Amém

[@canalmeucanal824]

Achei que só eu e mais uma pessoa gostava shajahaa Mas Bon Iver afinal é gênero gospel ?

[@alsalvacion6554]

Is it just me or there are double entendres in the phrase, "I could prophet, I could rob I, " like it sounds like "profit and rabbi" simultaneously. Like he's saying that he could do what religions do and profit on people's fear of death. Idk, it's just a little snippet of genius I found while listening to this 24/7

[@promusicality]

This comment shows a fundamental misunderstanding of Judaism.

[@ronaldwagner3]

promusicality lmfao

[@michaeld.williamsiii9026]

Love this!!!!💙🌙🤘🏾 Thank you Justin Vernon/Bon Iver!

[@35PHaaton]

So many "thank you, justin" in the comments. I'm flattered lol Joking aside, this as much "thank you, justin" i've seen in my life. I don't get that much and in my own little head, I don't know why, seeing all those comments made me feel better. Anyway, lovely day with all these music being uploaded. Thanks, Bon Iver. Thanks, Justin Vernon.

[@Kaal_Gr8]

Having a shit childhood and not being raised by the best parents out there made me develop anxiety and hate life, these songs got me through some tough times when i thought life had no meaning and suicide was the only way out of it all...... I just hope this bands music will change someones life for the better, coz *there will be a better day*¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[@blueskies7933]

This song made me happy

[@beckyiskoo]

Can’t wait to see them October 8th!!!

[@xankyxankyxanky]

This somehow reminds me of Self Record (Whippgrass and stuff). Love the album Justin, well done!

[@adam-mcclure]

This was the best way to release an album.

[@mars3857]

“Nothing’s gonna ease your mind” Wow

[@martynasvil]

loving every second of it

[@mysticowlmandoesstuff]

If you wait, it won't be undone Well, it's all just scared of dying But isn't this a beach? And if I know one thing at all Is I cannot just be a peach Oh, you come in all woke now So, please enjoy the feast We are weightless like a wayless beast So what is it we don't teach? When we were children we were hell-bent Or oblivious at least But now it comes to mind We are terrified So we run and hide For a verified little peace So what of this release? Sun light feels good now, don't it? And I don't have a leaving plan But something's gotta ease your mind But it's all fine, or it's all crime anyway There were six of us sitting creek side Sifting fistfuls through the green Every which way could be seen Was the sand and time Not a pantomime More like anodyne Was a friend of mine You'da known, you'da known I could prophet I could rob I, however Everywhere isn't everywhere This is not a veil Or a fairy tale in the least So what of this release? Some life feels good now, don't it? (I think I need it) Don't have to have a leaving plan (Have to let it) Nothing's gonna ease your mind Well, it's all fine and we're all fine anyway But if you wait, it won't be undone

[@justwiln]

The album is outstanding

[@frankerwin1437]

God I love this song

[@snehadahal2265]

I just love the muscial transition of his songs. You can't just love his previous albums and not this.