Bon iver what does skinny love mean

Bringing him back to that sad vulnerable place and it ends with him still wounded Because some won't fight too hard for love, after awhile most will just fall far behind: Who will love you? Brilliant song, brilliant lyrics, amazing all together lyriclover81 on July 09, Link. Hello all, May I first start my expressing my entire love for this song - truly fantastic in everyway I'm afraid that I don't have anything to add to the meaning of the song, simply because I believe all points have been covered.

One small point that I do have to say is this Skinny love has received 45 posts from people obviously passionate about Bon Iver's lyrics. Fair shout, the man is clearly incredible. Now I'm from England and I find artists like Bon Iver and Bonnie "Prince" Billie to be clear foundations of what America truly has to present to the world, completely contradicting all the small-minded peasants that happily follow an ignorant fraternity of people that find America to be a threatening country and therefore some sort of enemy.

Bon Iver has a wonderful story surrounding a truly amazing album However, Bonnie "Prince" Billie has a wonderful album developing into an amazing story So my rather drawn out point is this I'm sure it seems so ridiculous that one man can be so passionate about a seemingly trivial fact, but this man's music has affected me in a big way and I would really like to see the backing from his home country that he truly deserves.

My apologies, please don't let my lack of attention to detail defer you from the point in hand. X drewiedrewdrew on December 12, I absolutely love this song! Alot of people have put what they think the song is about, usually about relationship troubles and the term 'skinny love' is refering to the amount of love in the relationship, or it is the nickname for the mans partner.

When i first heard the song i thought it was about suicide, i know a bad thought, but the lyrics 'Sink of blood' gave me that idea, silly really. But i also thought that it might be about a fathers daughter who is suffering from an eating disorder, maybe, and it could have been about their parents being woried about them.

The Skinny Love refers to his own inability to love completely which is why it is skinny. He says in the interview posted by djfrisk that the song is not about who you think its about. He is pleading with himself to be able to hold on to this other person enough to "last the year. Startlingly honest, but I think that is the quality that makes these songs so great.

I agree with you, lyriclover81! Yes, I also interpreted the "pour a little salt" line as evoking an image of salting the land so that it would infertile, thus killing any memory of the relationship and any memory of it, so "we were never here". Ghostly on January 28, Yes it is all about the pain we get from relationships, but I feel like this is an experience based on his dad or to someone who is really close with him.

He was trying to tell us their part of the story. I felt such sad vibe in this song but for some reason, I don't believe that its coming from him but from someone else rather. Something you may find interesting though is why Vernon begs himself to be patient, fine, balanced, and kind. In the Bible, in Corinthians, love is defined: "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud" It matches up nicely with the chorus, so maybe Vernon wishes he could feel a true love for another.

DrDoctorDoo on February 11, My Interpretation I gotta say, I've listened to most of the versions of this song, and I have to say that Birdy's version is technically fine, but it just sounds like a sad girl singing a song. The version of this that Bon Iver sings on Jools is by far the best. He's not just sad, but he captures the essence of a failing relationship.

You can just feel the anger, depression and desperation in his voice when he sings it. With that said, this is my interpretation. First, I believe skinny love to just mean a relationship where the love has faded and the relationship is weak. But I believe the proper term should be "anorexic love", because he is trying to inject all the love he can into the relationship, but it seems as if she keeps rejecting it, and letting the love waste away.

He knows it won't work out because she can't nurture the love, so he's just begging that it last long enough so that he can prepare himself for the inevitable breakup. Just pour salt to help the wound heal, and pretend they were never there fighting. Then he starts surveying that damage done in the relationship. Its like if you've been punched in the mouth, you run to the sink to wash up and you're spitting out blood and teeth into the sink. The interesting thing is veneer is what you use for fake teeth, but it's also a term to describe polishing something to make it look better than it really is.

So "crushed veneer" is also another was to say that his view of how good and awesome he may have thought the relationship was, has just been crushed. As much as he want's to cut his emotions, he know's it's not a feat he can accomplish. He loved her too much and knows he can't just fall out of love right on the spot. Notice in this instance, kind means her just being nice to him, but then.

He'll be with her, but it will be a different "kind" of being with her. In other words, he'll be physically next to her, but not as a couple. Also it means that she will be kind to him, but not in a loving way, but more of a kindness that comes out of pity, because she is trying to let him down easy. In other words, he left feeling shitty about what has happened, while she wont care as much and sees the break as getting her freedom back.

I think he's just pleading with his love to feed off whatever little hope there is left in the relationship. Babies suckle, but if it's a light brassiere then that means there's not much in that bra to suck on. Basically, he's pleading with his love to just stay with him a little longer and just hope she will love him more.

So I think that's the skinny, malnourished love they had. They aren't breaking up in some passionate way, its just that the love is dying slowly, hence, slow on the splt up. And now all your love is wasted? And then who the hell was I? He feels like her love was all that ever mattered, and that anything good he felt about himself was because of that great feeling being loved gives you, so he defined himself through her love and the relationship.

As a result, if her love was just a big waste, what does that make him? He can't even transfer to another bus because there are no more buses that will take him any further. Who will love you? Anyways, this song is very personal to me because I went through pretty much the same emotions as he did about a year ago. Love sucks sometimes. This is a spot-on interpretation. I will say that I always thought "Right in this moment, this order's tall" meant that he was ordering a "tall" drink at bar to attempt to escape his feelings through alcohol, but I like your way of reading it too.

Wow your interpretation actually brought me to tears because this song has been on repeat for me since about April when "the love of my life" left me I hear this song and it hits me hard and your interpretation was just dead on. Thanks guys. This is one of those songs where you don't think too much about it until you wind up with the same emotional pain that I'm sure was felt when this song was written.

Then you suddenly understand everything. I had that special one leave me too, and it really sucked. This one nails it. And it was in fact Bon Iver who originally released it back in Gilbert and Christian Tattersfield.

Her version came out in and proved to be a bigger hit than the original. Her rendition appeared on three Billboard charts, in addition to breaking the top 20 on the UK Singles Chart and reaching number 1 in the Netherlands. In fact it was a massive international success, going septuple-platinum in Australia as well double-platinum in New Zealand and the UK.

Telling yourself about all the hurt you've gone through and some point that you wanted to end your life. You loved deeply but you always end up disappointed of not loving back the same way you did. So you're telling yourself to be okay despite of everthing bad happened. It drives me crazy this isn't obvious.

This song is about a man getting ready to murder his girlfriend after a night of domestic violence and then he needs to clean up the crime scene and get rid of the body the next morning. This girlfriend didn't even last a year before he had to kill her. He "poors a little salt" because he needs to use it as a cleaning agent to clean up the blood and gore. That way, no one will know they were there at the crime scene. Salt works as an effective scouring agent and catalyst for other ingredients, such as vinegar, to boost it ability to clean and deodorize.

He literally looks in the sink and stares at the blood and crushed dental veneeers. That is what you see in crime scene photos of a vicious murder. Blood and crushed dental veneers. In other words, if you hit someone in the mouth really hard you will crush their dental veneers and have blood everywhere.

If you try and clean that up, there will be blood and crushed dental veneers in the sink and you will stare at it. As he is cleaning up the crime scene, it occurs to him that the girl really disappointed him. He told her that she was the reason it all got wrecked. She wrecked it all and he blames her for his bad acts. It was her fault. At some point she is so tired of being tortured and beaten that she begs him to let her die - cut the ropes and let me fall.

He says "right in the moment this order's tall" because he is having a hard time taking the final action to kill her and he wants to delay it longer. Now he starts blaming her again - he told her to be patient, be fine, be balanced, be kind, but she let him down and didn't do what he said.

It is her fault he has to kill her. He tells her that in the morning he will still be with her but it will be a different "kind," because she will be dead. He is holding the court tickets because he committed the crime, but he doesn't intend to pay the fine or be punished or suffer any consequence. That is why he is cleaning up the crime scene. Instead, she will be the only one to suffer the consequences of his bad acts and she will be owning all the fines. After he kills her he looks at the mess and says "Skinner love, what happened here?

I'm not sure what "suckle on the hope in light brassieres" means. A baby suckles on it's mother's breast to get nourishment and that woman's brassiereres bra would be heavy. But a skinny women has smaller breast in a "lite" brassiereres and less nourishment to offer. I think it means he needed "hope" from this women but she never had any to offer and he should have known that from the beginning.

She was too "skinny" and not even capable of supplying anything he needed and that was obvious to him all along but he ignored that fact. Her dead body would definitely be a "sullen" or miserable load. That load is a lot to move around so it is making it hard for him to "split" or leave the crime scene because he has to take it with him.

It is taking him longer than he wants to clean up and move the dead body before he can split. Because she got herself killed, her love was "wasted. He thinks that if all that was wasted, then who is he? He breaking at the britches - he is literally falling apart and ready to get out of there.

Because it is the end of her existence - nothing is left of her lines and it is time to go. Then it occurs to him that she is gone and no one will love her ever again. No one will fight with her.

No one will fall far behind - because now she is dead and gone. Skinny love is two people showing eachother love,but not admitting that they love eachother. She was scared that it would end. I think. I have wondered a lot about this song's lyrics, because I love it so much. I actually had another thought than most of the other comments here.

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