Heaving with imagery of wretched deserts and storm-lashed towers, Peter Gabriel's Come Talk to Me treats a rift in communication between lovers as a chasm, his voice hollering and echoing across the physical distance. The lyrics take the mundane and make them grand, magnifying something common and making it dramatically singular. In Justin Vernon's mouth, the tune loses its tribal power and pounding momentum but gains the solemnity of a hymn. Bon Iver manage to return to the melody a touch of the everyday: dirty dishes in the sink, the strain of long-term monogamy, the unspoken tensions that manage to silently unravel relationships. The song creates a different sort of urgency, a tune that has the feel of a hushed conversation between divided lovers. Though the structure of the song is the same, the scope is smaller and it tucks itself into the more modest, quieter spaces left untouched by the original.