i could see for miles, miles, miles

The song is Holocene, by Bon Iver, and I had never heard it before.  I was with friends.  Someone in the other room was remarking about how flipping awesome you are.  And an invisible hand squeezed my chest 'til I couldn't breathe.  On the back porch, all I could choke out was, I'm sorry.  I'm so sorry.

and

I love you.

"...3rd and Lake it burnt away, the hallway
Was where we learned to celebrate
Automatic bought the years you'd talk for me
That night you played me ʻLip Paradeʼ
Not the needle, nor the thread, the lost decree
Saying nothing, that's enough for me

... and at once I knew I was not magnificent
Hulled far from the highway aisle
(Jagged, vacance, thick without us)
I could see for miles, miles, miles

Christmas night, it clutched the light, the hallow bright
Above my brother, I entangled spines
We smoked the screen to make it what it was to be
Now to know it in my memory:

... and at once I knew I was not magnificent
High above the highway aisle
(Jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles"

Holocene, Bon Iver