This song is very expository; I live in Perth, Australia, and the line "this is a place / not yet awake" is very, very true. Perth is very sleepy and lazy. That line also seems to me like the time before the sunrises, and it feels like somewhat of a resolution. "furling forests for the soft" seems to me like Vernon looking out to rolling forests. I saw Bon Iver a few years back and he played up in the hills overlooking the city. This line fits the setting perfectly. The line "In a mother out a moth" is also intriguing; I can only read it as mother = giver of live and moth = full completion. I also love the confide / profane - con /pro ellipsis interpretation. In reviewing all of this I think it's half in part in exploring Perth, the place itself, and half about resolution or finding resolution there - becoming a moth, revealing a finality.
This song is very expository; I live in Perth, Australia, and the line "this is a place / not yet awake" is very, very true. Perth is very sleepy and lazy. That line also seems to me like the time before the sunrises, and it feels like somewhat of a resolution. "furling forests for the soft" seems to me like Vernon looking out to rolling forests. I saw Bon Iver a few years back and he played up in the hills overlooking the city. This line fits the setting perfectly. The line "In a mother out a moth" is also intriguing; I can only read it as mother = giver of live and moth = full completion. I also love the confide / profane - con /pro ellipsis interpretation. In reviewing all of this I think it's half in part in exploring Perth, the place itself, and half about resolution or finding resolution there - becoming a moth, revealing a finality.