A good song

I really love this song. I don't know that I've ever identified more with a song so obscure.

I'm putting the lyrics here, but the lyrics are only so beautiful if the music is with it, so I encourage anyone reading this to find the song and listen.

I'm not sure I know exactly what Justin Vernon was intending but I do know that the lyrics reflect my thoughts many times when I learn something new and difficult about Jesus Christ, and am brought to a fork in the road of real belief or hypocricy. Will I refuse the freedom of His redemption, or will I know real love?

I fight with the choice to continue carrying my load or "unstack".

A lot of times, I find because of my sin, mistakes, and failures "all my money gone, and I'm drunk as hell" (no, I've never in life been drunk as hell). At these times I cannot find what I had always believed, and the black crow taunts me in what I think are losses. The effects of "stacking" become evident.

The song ends with a renewal of belief and resolve of love in "unstacking your load".
Praise Jesus for imagery.

"Stacks" by Bon Iver

This my excavation and today is kumran
Everything that happens is from now on
This is pouring rain. This is paralyzed

I keep throwing it down two-hundred at a time
It's hard to find it when you knew it
When your money's gone
And you're drunk as hell

On your back with your racks as the stacks as your load
In the back and the racks and the stacks are your load
In the back with your racks and you're un-stacking your load

I've twisting to the sun I needed to replace
The fountain in the front yard is rusted out
All my love was down In a frozen ground

There's a black crow sitting across from me; his wiry legs are crossed
And he's dangling my keys he even fakes a toss
Whatever could it be That has brought me to this loss?

On your back with your racks as the stacks as your load
In the back and the racks and the stacks of your load
In the back with your racks and you're un-stacking your load

This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization
It's the sound of the unlocking and the lift away
Your love will be Safe with me