I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bon Iver, live at Air Studios for 4AD/Jagjaguwar

Literally the way that Justin Vernon performs this breaks my heart and I just feel his earnestness and his raw emotion. Goddamn. This is just so good. It’s almost like the things that I feel, he’s singing it for me. Ugh, tears. So incredible. Hands down, one of the best cover songs I have ever heard. 

Every single time I listen to this album, my heart gets heavy and I turn melancholy and I wish that the world wasn’t so big and I wasn’t all alone in my head. And it makes me wish that I wasn’t so weird and so paranoid about being alone and not hearing from people. 

That may be the most “emo” thing I have written on here in a very long time. Whatever. 

tl;dr

Not-so-quietly becoming incredibly obsessed with this record. I’m about a day and a year late from all of my Richmond hipster counterparts, but whatevs. In love. 

Every time I listen to Bon Iver, I think of driving through Provincetown with the windows down and the sun setting. I miss summer. I miss Annie. I miss how that drive felt. I think I’m going to have to go visit Massachusetts sooner rather than later. 

/Personal but whatevs.