Justin Vernon’s “Creature Fear” is just a great heartbroken song. And like lots of the windswept and winning For Emma, Forever Ago, it gets wings when it’s live, and so we’re glad to hear Bon Iver do it solo in this latest Black Cab Session. That said, though, it’s the lyrics that make it especially perfect for a mild mannered and lost looking American aching away in the back seat of a London cab:

I was full by your count / I was lost but your fool / Was a long visit wrong? / Say you are the only

So many foreign worlds / So relatively fucked / So ready for us / So ready for us / The creature fear

Dressed and disheveled as if he’s just spilled himself into the taxi, on his way to Heathrow and back to Wisconsin after a failed attempt at salvaging a long distance relationship, finding this foreign world relatively fucked, realizing he learned more on the visit than he wanted to … there’s some sweet synchronicity in this session, I think. And I swear I’m not reading any of this into it because that exact thing happened to me, why would you even suggest that. Watch it. I’ll just be over here sobbing through some old photos. Drinking.

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  1. when the drums in “creature fear” come in, that’s probably my favorite part of the song. i didn’t think an acoustic version of the song would work. boy, was i wrong. and the falsetto in the second verse? seesh! it’s time for a cold shower.

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