Day One Lyrics – Bon Iver

[Verse 1: All]
Been a long while now coming up
Thought we were past it, thought we’d patched it up
Thought the title had passed hands
Thought we’d had enough
But the sun’s gonna go ahead and tag right up
And we don’t understand what we’re standing on
And we sure come in blind
With our timing

[Pre-Chorus: Dijon & Justin Vernon]
So I’ve culled what I can’t tame

I have taken all that I can take
And it got bad enough
I thought that I would leave

[Chorus: All, Justin Vernon, Justin Vernon & Flock Of Dimes]
Well, I wish you could take that right off
All that s*it that rips you right up
Then you’d know that we’d been taught all this from day one
From day one
(Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo)
(Hmm)

[Verse 2: Flock of Dimes]
Same old town and you’re parsing through
Signs of live and die for you
There’s a million ways you’re falling through
The cost of your mind
And some may say that you lack the stuff
And you burn it down and clack your cuffs
But you may have to toughen up
While unlearning that lie

[Interlude: Justin Vernon]
I’ll go find the tap wire
I’ll go put the pathfinder on waltz

[Chorus: Justin Vernon, All]
Well, can I get a rewind?
Just this once, if you don’t mind
I don’t know who I am without ya
‘Cause I feel a wild one now coming on
I told you to be patient, I swore that I was wrong
So why can’t we both just now get to understand?
From day one

[Post-Chorus: Dijon & Justin Vernon]
All this was dry land
Yes, you have just always had your band
But you get sad enough because it’s all you seek

[Outro: Justin Vernon, Flock of Dimes, Dijon, All]
(Oh, hop on, it’ll all be gone)
You don’t have to take so very long
And you can’t have it for a song
And that’s why I have rattled on
From day one
From day one
(Yeah-eh, oh yeah, ah-ooh! Eh-yeah)