Birch
Written By Bryan Devendorf, Justin Vernon & Aaron Dessner
Produced By Aaron Dessner
By Big Red Machine
Featuring Taylor Swift
About
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This song is a ✨Single✨.
“Birch” is the fourth track from Big Red Machine's second studio album, How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?, and is one of two Taylor Swift features on the album, the other being pre-release single “Renegade”.
This isn't the first time the artists have collaborated, with Aaron Dessner responsible for producing Swift's eighth and ninth studio albums folklore and evermore. Swift has also previously shared duets with Justin Vernon on her tracks “exile” and “evermore”, while Vernon also contributed backing vocals and played instruments for many other tracks on evermore.
Lyrics
[Verse 1: Justin Vernon]
The way I woke up was old
Was all fucking choke
And it ain't easier after a week
We're on a long byway standing
[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]
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 have common needs
We can sure deplete
We can be replete
Address table needs
It is swift your speed
[Verse 3: 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]
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 & Taylor Swift]
The way I wake up now
Is a brand new way
It ain't what it was before