Justin Vernon > Quotes

“Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.”
― Justin Vernon

“I have buried you in every place I’ve been. You keep ending up in my shaking hands.”
― Justin Vernon

“I was by myself for a pretty long time. I needed to do that. I think everyone that I know has wanted to do that or needed to do that at some point. I think when you spend enough time when it’s quiet around you and you don’t open your mouth for three or four days, there’s parts of your brain that can kind of rest. I think when we’re out in the world and we have to talk to people, we edit ourselves. You know, we have to like, act a little bit. As honest as we may be as humans, when we’re out here, we’re all kind of wearing mirrors on our faces. You know, constantly reacting to how to react to the people around you. And I think when you’re alone for a long enough time, you can feel a lot more peace.”
― Justin Vernon

“Towers’ is the name of the dormitory that I lived in in college; it’s made up of these two towers – North and South – my girlfriend lived in one and I lived in the other. It’s about falling in love, but also about what happens when you’ve long fallen out of love and those reminders are still there. You drive by them, these two buildings, and you look, and you realise that we really built that up. That we really built that love into these things, and for a long time afterward looking at them really made me feel sad; to see these empty buildings that I don’t go in to anymore. But then, as time goes on, they start to become kind of joyous in their own way: you can look at them and think ‘that love was great and these buildings still stand tall’. But there’s also an element of the fact that they’re just buildings – they’re gonna fall down one day, and they’re not that important because there’s new love in your life and you’ve got to break things down that get built up.”
― Justin Vernon

“Someday my pain will mark you”
― Justin Vernon

“At once i knew i was not magnificent.”
― Justin Vernon

“The bad stuff might be over soon, but maybe the good stuff might be over soon. So you'd better figure out how to enjoy this life and participate in it.”
― Justin Vernon

“All I'm trying to do is get my feet out from the creek.”
― Justin Vernon

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The hills speaking softly to brag
The rain is so quiet it's sad
In liberty it rains so loud we can't hear
It's so hard to see outside when it rains down here

The arches hold together St. Louis
And the mighty Mississippi splits right through us
Before my arches rebuild, they must have a song
But I can't proceed until the rain is gone

Blue grey background on those moss green pines
Heavy grown raindrops clinging to the electrical lines
Floating in an atmosphere of truth and hidden lies
Sometimes out here, I feel like my heroes can save my life

Through the window of this ricket rail car
And I see the world scene by scene
The silver mountains and blue streams
I will only ever smell the train steam

We hear Louis Armstrong play his horn on the shortwave radio
His sound breaks my heart with a stone in my throat
Like a sword through a heart, leaking tears onto the ground
So hard to see when it rains down here

Alone, is where I been leading to be
So I, just been sailing the seas
The wind can blow me wherever it needs to take me
The skipper taunts the sky
Thunder and waves crashing into the side
It will never break him, it will never save him”
― Justin Vernon