Sitting in the Library

just thinking to myself. Listening to music, and taking in the day.

I've found it helpful to carefully read the lyrics to some of my new favorite songs, and think about what the musician was trying to say. Bon Iver's Lump Sum to me, is a song about compromise, effort, and what emerges from one's own sacrifice.

He's traded some sort of burden or emotional weight in return for money, and perhaps relief. However, he seems to morosely sum up the rest of his life, when after selling his red horse for a venture home, he expects to "vanish on the bow, setting slow" like the sun over the horizon.

The second verse seems like a resistance to the thought that everything is contained, or should follow a path (i.e. the doldrums). The lines, "color the era, film it's historical" are somewhat conufisng to me other than their obvious meaning. Perhaps...

I'm boring.