Skinny Love
There are many versions of the song Skinny Love, but the original by Bon Iver really captures the essence of a failing relationship. The singer’s voice portrays feelings of loneliness, desperation, anger, and depression. With that said, Skinny Love is about a toxic relationship where the love has faded. Iver is saying he has attempted to salvage the broken piece of the bond they once shared, but is unable to repair their relationship because his depressed and suicidal partner is incapable of nurturing their love, or properly show her feelings. In result, their affection for one another is slowly dying.
This particular song uses many variations of figurative language, and complex variations of what the exact meaning behind
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He feels as if her love was all that mattered, and that anything good he felt was only because of her and the way she made him feel. Bon Iver defined himself through her love, and without it he feels as if he has nothing. “And now I’m breaking at the britches.” figuratively meaning he is falling apart.
In the last versus of skinny love, Iver shows his anguish about the breakup by saying “At the end of all your lines, who will love you? Who will fight, who will fall far behind?” These final lines are him asking who can show her as much love, or want her as badly, or help her deal with depression and all the bottled up emotions she can not handle on her own. Bon Iver believes any new man she meets will fail in comparison to him.
Concluding the dissection of Skinny Love by Bon Iver, it is solely about a couple who consists of a man obsessed with the fading love of his partner, and a women with bipolar depression who no longer loves him, she does not want to fight for their relationship any longer, she ends it slowly out of pity for her love struck boyfriend. Bon Iver, the singer of this song, and man in the story, is aware of the dying love between them but is unable to let her go.He