33 “GOD” Lyrics
(When we leave this room it's gone)
[Verse 1]
Is the company stalling?
We had what we wanted: your eyes
(When we leave this room it's gone)
With no word from the former
I'd be happy as hell if you stayed for tea
(I know so well that this is all there is)
This is how we grow now, woman
A child ignored
These will just be places to me now
The foreman is down
(When we leave this room it's gone)
We're rising the stairs
[Pre-Chorus]
I find God
And religion, too...
[Chorus]
Staying at the Ace Hotel
If the calm would allow
Then I would just be floating to you now
It would make me pass to let it pass on
I'm climbing the dash, that skin
(Here in this room, this narrow room
Where life began when we were young last night)
[Verse 2]
Well we walked up on that bolt in the street
After you tied me in in the driveway of the apartment of his bede
Sent your sister home in a cab
[Pre-Chorus]
Said I woulda walked across any thousand lands
(No not really if you can't)
I didn't need you that night
Not gonna need you anytime
Was gonna take it as it goes
I could go forward in the light
Well I better fold my clothes
[Chorus]
(I've been looking through your mind)
All my goodness
(I've been looking through your mind)
(I've been looking through your mind)
All my goodness to show
(Why are you so far from saving me?)
(Why are you so far from saving me?)
About
33 “GOD” is the fourth track off 22, A Million, released on August 29, 2016. The official lyric video opens with an epigraph quoting Psalm 22:
Why are you so FAR from saving me
The number 33 in the song title refers to the generally agreed upon age of Jesus Christ’s passing. It was also intentionally released 33 days prior to the release of 22, A Million. The song is also 3 minutes and 33 seconds in length.
It is also worth mentioning that the number ‘3’ is associated with the Holy Trinity:
- God, The Father (i.e. Creator of Universe)
- The Holy Spirit (i.e. The Physical Universe)
- Jesus Christ (i.e. Son of God and Human Representation of God)
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
From Bon Iver’s official Bio, written by musicologist, former bandmate, and longtime friend of Justin, Trevor Hagen:
If Bon lver, Bon lver built a habitat rooted in physical spaces, then 22, A Million is the letting go of that attachment to a place. “I’m taking deeper consideration in another kind of place -our friendships and connections to other people.” Justin proclaims this shift in ‘33 “GOD”’: “These will just be places to me now'. Rather than places we encounter a collection of numerical relationships: binary code, mystic ages, Bible chapters, math-logic, repeating infinities. Inside these numbers are a sonic distillation of imagery from the past years of turbulence and how to recover.
- 3.715 - CRΣΣKS
- 4.33 “GOD”
- 6.666 ʇ
- 8.8 (circle)
- 9.____45_____
- 10.00000 Million
