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• 1 2025-07-07T22:38:07-04:00 “Stacks” by Bon Iver, contributed by Ethan Tan (2025) 2 plain 2025-07-07T22:39:14-04:00 I decided to present on a song, “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 are 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
  
  Well I’ve been twisting to the sun and the moon
  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
  He is 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 are 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

  I chose this song because the band Bon Iver, and this album in particular, was created after the band’s founder suffered a few major losses. The album was his way of unpacking and processing this loss, and I think this song in particular captures the emotional impact of loss while evoking hope for the future. 
  
  Bon Iver is also my favorite band. Their music helped me through a difficult time when I was serving in the Singapore army.