Released: August 27, 2021

Featuring: Taylor Swift

Songwriter: Bryan Devendorf Justin Vernon Aaron Dessner

Producer: Aaron Dessner

[Verse 1: Justin Vernon]
The way I woke up was old
Was all fucking choke
And it ain't easier after a week
Were on a long byway standing still

[Chorus: Justin Vernon & Taylor Swift]
Well, if you cannot tell I'll tell you right away
If I'll stay a spell, or if I cannot stay
I am less at ease, not the best at these
See the forest trees, call what's these what's these

[Post-Chorus: Justin Vernon]
What's these (What's these)

[Verse 2: Justin Vernon & Taylor Swift, & Justin Vernon]
Hey Madeline, thanks
For to case out the fog, for Jennifer
Seems she needed you badly

[Chorus: Justin Vernon & Taylor Swift]
So I beg on knees
Can we share IDs?
Will you always need?
We havе common needs
We can sure deplеte
We can be replete
Address table needs
It is swift your speed

[Verse 3: Justin Vernon, Justin Vernon & Taylor Swift]
The way I wake up now, is a brand new way
And no it ain't that way, like it was before

[Chorus: Justin Vernon & Taylor Swift, & Justin Vernon]
So I cannot leave
Yes I must here stay
Cause I know what's good
And I'll die that way
No I cannot seem
To get a moment's peace
If there's a man like me
His birch ain't my tree

[Outro: Justin Vernon, Justin Vernon & Taylor Swift]
The way I woke up now
Is a brand new way
It ain't what it was before

Big Red Machine

Big Red Machine is a collaboration of Bon Iver’s frontman, Justin Vernon, and The National’s keyboardist, Aaron Dessner, formed in June 2018. The band name is a reference to a song of the same name made by Vernon and Dessner in a collaboration for the 2009 Red Hot charity compilation, Dark Was the Night. The song title itself is a reference to the name of the Cincinnati Reds baseball teams from Dessner’s hometown. Vernon, when writing the lyrics to the song, misinterpreted the meaning of the title and instead believed it was a reference to the heart.

Big Red Machine, along with Dessner’s brother and fellow member of The National, Bryce Dessner, launched a music platform called PEOPLE. The duo released four songs exclusively on the website. In July, a self-titled album was announced, which would contain their four PEOPLE tracks. The PEOPLE-exclusive songs were then released on various other streaming services.

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