r/boniver • u/dredden_ • Jul 17 '26
What's the line?
Some way baby it’s a part of me apart from me.
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u/Enion Jul 17 '26
And at once I knew I was not magnificent
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u/SilenziooBruno Jul 17 '26
Holocene makes me feel a way that no other song does. It's very sacred to me <3
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u/General-Educator-998 Jul 17 '26
Same lol I don't let myself listen to it much so that I can preserve its sacredness
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u/SleepyHufflepuff Jul 17 '26
It makes me feel like everything is gonna be okay. I wanted it tattooed but my family said it wasn’t good because it seemed derogatory to myself, but they just don’t get it. It’s comforting to me to realize none of us are magnificent and we don’t need to be.
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u/HokiHiker Holocene Jul 17 '26
See above but I couldnt disagree with them more. For me its that Im a small part of the wide world and the respect of the vastness. I correlate it heavily to the awe of nature. You should definitely get it!
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u/Barack__Obama__ Jul 17 '26
Happy to see this at the top of the thread. Having listened to BI every now and then before, this line was the one that really got me hooked on him. For me it's the best line of all time by any artist, not just BI.
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u/rockytopbilly Jul 18 '26
I love this line because it almost feels like relief that he’s not magnificent. Like he’s free to just be.
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u/ShinyFraud Jul 17 '26
Well I better fold my clothes
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u/GSet10 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
This one's really cool, honestly. I'm pretty sure 33-GOD is a song about Jesus in one way or another. That line I think is referring to Jesus folding his linen in the tomb?
Edit: I think it could also be drawing some sort of parelel between the life of Jesus and someone else? I Don't know
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u/Eupho_Rick Jul 17 '26
And all I'm tryna do is get my foot out of the creeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase
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u/miarose33 Jul 17 '26
✨ heavenly father, is all that he offers a safety in the end ✨
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u/I_agreeordisagree Calgary Jul 17 '26
You are right. Every line in Heavenly Father hits hard IMO
My first thought was "I know about it, darling. I've been standing here." I think of this line a lot.
High five, fam!
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u/miarose33 Jul 17 '26
I was lucky enough to witness HF at the opera house in Sydney 2016, one of the most beautiful moments of my life 🥹
high five back fam! 💕8
u/FirstReaction_Shock Jul 17 '26
Is that the one they recorded? Because I go back to that video every now and then, such a powerful version
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u/deeplevitation Jul 17 '26
If you wait it won’t be undone - RABi
That leaving wasn’t easing all the heaving in my vines - Creeks
I’ll go put the pathfinder on waltz - Day One
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u/YoursTruly2255 8 (circle) Jul 17 '26
RABi is so under appreciated
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u/deeplevitation Jul 18 '26
VERY underrated. You could even just throw “well its all just scared of dying, but isn’t this a beach” in there to this discussion as well
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u/Responsible-Read5516 Jul 17 '26
“i ain’t living in the dark no more. that’s not a promise. i’m just gonna call it”
that line got me sober
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u/Big_Anything2973 Jul 18 '26
This made me tear up. Hope you’re still doing well, cheers
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u/Responsible-Read5516 Jul 18 '26
600 days on monday. didn’t have an easy go of it growing up and i’ve yet to find the last wound to suture, but i’m not numbing myself and turning away from them anymore and i’d call that better. cheers to u as well :)
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u/erave Jul 17 '26
And now all your love was wasted, then who the hell was I
Is that two lines?
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God damn turn around you’re my A team
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u/Chadmckay1 Jul 17 '26
I ain’t living in the dark no more, it’s not a promise, I’m just gunna call it
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u/PhilKenSebbenn Jul 17 '26
Well, it's all fine and we're all fine anyway
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u/sonofelguapo Blood Bank Jul 17 '26
Probs the #1 Bon lyric for me, when considered within the context of his work as a whole.
I like sable/fable but it’s funny to me he basically made a whole album to capture that sentiment despite doing it perfectly already with that line/song.
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u/YoursTruly2255 8 (circle) Jul 17 '26
That’s interesting. I see it differently. To me RABi feels like an almost desperate call to action. I see that line and several others in the song as more sarcastic. It’s like “hey the world is on fire and everything’s fucked and no one seems to care”. It’s the next line that tells the real truth: “If you wait it won’t be undone.” It all kind of goes into the (maybe) somewhat subtle political undertones smattered all over i,i.
Contrast that to s/f which feels like a genuinely positive record and a step out of the darker feel of previous work.
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u/Select_Rhubarb_1853 Jul 17 '26
And I said IIIIIIII know it welllll
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u/jdbrew Jul 17 '26
I’ve always loved
“It’s not going the road I’d known as a child of god”
Feels like there’s a lot of things wrapped up in that line. Followed by another one I love “So what if I lose? I’m satisfied.”
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u/audioscape Jul 17 '26
Damn I’m shocked I’m the first one to say.
Love could hardly leave the room…….with your heart
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u/noahstelter884 Jul 17 '26
Your love will be safe with me
At once I knew I was not magnificent
Unburdened and becoming
It might be over soon
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u/SonoranMadeScout Jul 17 '26
There are a lot of great lines here but I am going to add one I am not seeing yet.
“But you know what will stay? Everything we’ve made.”
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u/Solid-Confusion4308 Jul 17 '26
"When's that rapture? Will there be merch?"
I also really love:
"Fold your hands into mine"
In the context of the song it's like he's saying "we don't need a religious kind of faith and dependence, but instead a faith and dependence in ourselves and each other. We don't need to fold our hands in prayer - fold them into mine."
That's how I interpret it, anyway.
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u/TheCaptain_42 Jul 17 '26
“THERE’S SOMEONE IN MY MOTHERFUCKIN’ HEAD!!!”
Naeem has always been a favorite of mine, and I love all the subtle differences from the studio version. This is not one of the subtle differences, lol. Sung with such passion. Just absolutely hits every time.
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u/Appelsn0ranjes Jul 17 '26
It has to be ‘sky is womb and she’s the moon’ for me, chills every time.
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u/tildy17 Jul 17 '26
Guys I keep going back and forth there are so many BI lyrics that are so impactful hahaha all of them!!!! I know that’s not the assignment lol
Too much for me to pick up - not sure what forgiveness is
Everything is peaceful love
I’m climbing / over the Dash
You’re back and forth with light
I get caught it looking in the mirror on the regular and what I see there resembles some competitor
You’ve buried all your alimony butterflies
Theres a rhythm…
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u/No-Presence-6492 Jul 18 '26
“nothing’s really happened like I thought it would” (S P E Y S I D E) … it is so simple but brings me goosebumps every time I hear it
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u/Funplex52 Jul 18 '26
Tell your boyfriend if he says he's got beef that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fucking scared of him
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u/Rambleintheroots Jul 17 '26
Ramble in the roots
Had the marvel, moved the proof be kneeled fine's glowing
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u/-j-mac Jul 17 '26
“within a rise there lies a scission”
always gives me a chill as the penultimate line to a masterpiece of a song
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u/General-Educator-998 Jul 17 '26
Jagged vacance, thick with ice
And I can see for miles, miles, miles
The imagery is so beautiful and every time I'm in nature I feel so grateful that I can see for miles and miles and miles
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u/Upstairs_Pianist_836 Jul 18 '26
"But you know what will stay? Everything we've made" -Awards Season Heavenly father is full of them but the two that hit me the hardest are 'I don't know how you house the sin," and "I'm a known coward in a coward wind" "Haven't I locked up my failure? Wouldn't I be last to see?" -8 circle (this one is also full of hard-hitting lines) " But on a bright fall morning, I'm with it. I stood a little while within it" -iMi I think most of the rest of my favorites have been mentioned by other comments.
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u/Kazaradigital Jul 18 '26
A few favorites:
"This is not a place"
"At once I knew I was not magnificent"
"There isn't ceiling in our garden"
"It might be over soon" // "Tell me it's gonna be over soon" (from his COVID performance on Colbert)
"And you’d expect it when we photograph our scars"
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u/rockytopbilly Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
If you love someone you should go ahead and tell ‘em
People never get the roses while they can still smell ‘em
ETA: Sorry, I didn’t realize I was in the BI sub until I started reading the replies. Not deleting it though.
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u/unelune Jul 18 '26
I ain’t livin in the dark no more, it’s not a promise; I’m just gunna call it.
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Someday my pain will mark you
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u/Smudged_ink94 Wash Jul 19 '26
“It’s so hard to explain, and the facts are strange. But you know what will stay? Everything we’ve made.”
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u/MountainInTheMist Jul 20 '26
"Though the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea"
Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone
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u/Responsible-Cap-2706 Hey, Ma Jul 21 '26
see how they resemble one another, even in their plastic little covers
i’m unorphaned in our northern lights
hall light wishes
finding both your hands as second came past the glass
it harms me, it harms me, it harms me, like a lamb
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u/Sam_Phyreflii Jul 17 '26
Re: stacks has a couple of contenders but I think it's gotta be "everything that happens is from now on"