I’ve heard Gaslight Anthem cover this Bon Iver song more than once but have never been able to find a video of it. At last! The cover starts at 3 minutes in and it fits gloriously into Angry Johnny & the Radio. I’ve put the combined lyrics below, with Bon Iver’s in bold.
Don’t think twice
I still believe it John, we lived those nights
Like we were dyin’ on the long haul drives
For our Maria, with the ragged sails high
And the radio on
And I always have remembered, in case you’re wonderin’
84 takes a lifetime but Bobby does it better
I still sing ’em ragged for you and Maria
I don’t drive nowhere without the radio on
And I’m still here singin’, thinkin’ ’bout the government
In my old man’s shoes, and how you’d understand that
Are you hidin’ in a basement mixin’ up the medicine?
Every April Fools I say your name
I know your name
I still know your name
And I always have remembered, in case you’re wonderin’
84 takes a lifetime but Bobby does it better
I still sing ’em ragged for you and Maria
I don’t drive nowhere without the radio on
And on and on and on and on and on
Well, I met you at the blood bank
We were looking at the bags
Wondering if any of the colors
Matched any of the names we knew on the tags
You said, see look that’s yours
Stacked on top with your brother’s
See how the resemble one another
Even in their plastic little covers
And I said I know it well
That secret that you knew but don’t know how to tell
It fucks with your honor and it teases your head
But you know that it’s good girl
‘Cause its running you with red
Then the snow started falling
We were stuck out in your car
You were rubbing both of my hands
Chewing on a candy bar
You said, ain’t this just like the present
To be showing up like this?
As a moon waned to crescent
We started to kiss
(We started to kiss)
And I always have remembered, in case you’re wonderin’
84 takes a lifetime but Bobby does it better
I still sing ’em ragged for you and Maria
I don’t drive nowhere without the radio on
We always loved the sad, sad songs
Mark Carrigan 