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Hinnom, TX

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Hinnom, TX Lyrics

[Intro]
Fall in
Fall out
Fall along

[Verse 1]
In the first of light
Past the Noachide
Bodies wrapped in white
Stranded every pain
Baby, pasts are slain
"I got outta La Grange"

[Verse 2]
In Hinnom
All this time
With your heart in mind
Didn't you edit?
In Hinnom
Go, the least
And the precious feast
The in-vetted

[Verse 3]
Sand, it starts to steal
Dirt and ice imbed in cheeks
In the potter's field
(Solar peace
Well, it swirls and sweeps
You just set it)
Strangers scattering
Nether passage in the wind
Off pennant tension ring
(Armor, down
On the wettest ground
Not to vet it)

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What did Bon Iver say about "Hinnom, TX"?
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Vernon explained the story behind the song to UK newspaper The Sun:

When I was working on the lyrics I was coming up with these images of the desert. I had the idea of taking Hinnom, a place near Jerusalem where they have a cemetery for people who don’t have names and plopping it into Texas.

The song became an amalgamation of this idea and my experience of a Lucinda Williams song ‘Fruits Of My Labor.’ She sings this line, ‘Cause I finally did it, baby, I got out of La Grange, go in my Mercury and drove out west.’

She’s actually explaining the end of something, which is actually the beginning of her life. When Lucinda got into the Mercury and drove out west, she was burying the stranger inside her. It’s a metaphor for a lot of stuff on the record.

Credits
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Written By
Trumpet
Mixing Engineer
Mastering Engineer
French Horns
Baritone Guitar
Violin
Piccolo Trumpet
Bass Saxophone
Additional Engineering
Engineering Assistant
Recorded At
April Base Studios
Release Date
June 17, 2011
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