Though Stevens had announced plans to make an album for each of the 50 U.S. states, beginning the series with the albums 'Michigan' (2003) and 'Illinois' (2005), he has since then somewhat retracted the statement. "Sufjan Stevens is not going to write a record for each of the 50 states after all" was the original text included on the online liner notes for 'Mews Too: An Asthmatic Kitty Compilation' , a disc released on February 7, 2006. This statement was possibly included as a joke, as the text has since been removed and the current liner notes related to Sufjan Stevens reads: "Sufjan Stevens can fold a fitted-sheet (he once worked as a professional folder in a commercial Laundromat)."
Background
Stevens was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the city of Petoskey in that same state. He attended Hope College on the west coast of Michigan.
The name Sufjan is an Arabic/Persian name that predates Islam and most famously belonged to Abu Sufyan, a figure from early Islamic history. It has been mentioned in the press that the name was given to Stevens by the leader of Subud, a spiritual sect to which his parents belonged when he was born. Stevens has stated that the name is of Armenian origin and means "comes with a sword," and that it is "a charming militaristic Muslim name." In fact the name is not Armenian, and Armenia is a predominantly Christian country.
Sufjan is also the plural form of Sufi in Persian . Sufi is a practitioner of Sufism .This word is frequently used in the old Persian literature ,specially Sufi poetry .
His brother, marathonist Marzuki Stevens, has trained to compete in the 2008 Olympic trials, and has played on two of Sufjan's albums.
A multi-instrumentalist, Stevens plays the banjo, guitar, drums, and several other instruments, often playing all of these on his albums through the use of multi-tracking. While in school, he studied the oboe and English horn, which he also plays on his albums; he is one of the few musicians in popular music to use these instruments.
Career
Sufjan Stevens began his musical career as a member of Marzuki, a folk-rock band from Holland, Michigan. He also played (and continues to play) various instruments for Danielson Famile. While in school at Hope College, Stevens wrote and recorded his debut solo album, A Sun Came, which he released on Asthmatic Kitty Records, a record label he founded with his step-father in 1999. He later moved to New York City, where he was enrolled in a writing program at the New School for Social Research.
While in New York, Stevens composed and recorded the music for his second album, Enjoy Your Rabbit, a song cycle based around the animals of the Chinese Zodiac that ventured into electronica.
Stevens followed this with the first of his 50 states albums, a collection of folk songs and instrumentals inspired by his home state of Michigan. The result, the expansive Michigan, included odes to cities including Detroit and Flint, the Upper Peninsula, and vacation areas such as Tahquamenon Falls. Melded into the scenic descriptions and characters are his own declarations of faith in God, sorrow, love and the regeneration of Michigan.
Following the release of Michigan, Stevens compiled a collection of songs recorded previously into a side project, the Christian folk album Seven Swans, which was released in March 2004.
Next he released the second in the 50 states projects, entitled Come On Feel The Illinoise!. Among the subjects explored on Come On Feel The Illinoise! are the cities of Chicago, Decatur and Jacksonville, the serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the poet Carl Sandburg, and Mississippi Palisades State Park.
He has contributed to the music of Denison Witmer, Soul Junk, Half-handed Cloud, Brother Danielson, Danielson Famile, Serena Maneesh, Castanets, and Liz Janes. He played piano on for fellow Brooklyn musician's The National's album 2007 Boxer. A cover of "She Is" is included on the album Dream Brother, released in the United States on January 31, 2006.
Sufjan contributed a lot to the sound of the 2001 Liz Janes album Done Gone Fire as he engineered, recorded, produced and arranged it as well as playing many addition instruments.
Sufjan recently recorded with Rosie Thomas and Denison Witmer playing banjo and providing vocals. It is unknown how this record will be released. In April 2006, Pitchfork erroneously announced that Stevens and Thomas were having a baby together, but were forced to print a retraction. Witmer and Thomas later admitted it was an April Fools' prank.
The Fifty States Project
Beginning with Michigan, Stevens announced an intent to write an album for each of the 50 U.S. states, although in interviews he wavers between utter sincerity and self-deprecating irony when describing the idea.
Stevens spent the second half of 2004 researching and writing material for the second of these projects, this time focusing his efforts on Illinois. As with Michigan, Stevens used the state of Illinois as a leaping-off point for his more personal explorations of faith, family, love, and location.
The widely acclaimed Illinois was the highest rated album of 2005 on the Metacritic review aggregator site, based on glowing reviews from Pitchfork, The Onion A/V Club, Spin, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and The Guardian. The 2006 PLUG Independent Music Awards awarded Stevens with the Album Of The Year, Best Album Art/Packaging, and Male Artist Of The Year. Pitchfork Media and Paste Magazine named Come On Feel The Illinoise! as the editors' choice for best album of 2005 and Stevens received the 2005 Pantheon prize, awarded to albums selling 500,000 copies or fewer, for Come On Feel The Illinoise!. In April of 2006, Stevens announced that 21 pieces of music he had culled from the Come On Feel The Illinoise! recording sessions would be incorporated into a new album, called The Avalanche. The album was released on July 11, 2006.
While there were other projects rumored to be released following 2005's Illinois, by 2009 and his live album The BQE, he was seemingly finished with the project, calling it "Such a joke", and accepting that the project was too massive and too cliché to ever reach an end.
Religious themes
Many of Stevens' songs have religious and spiritual allusions, but his album Seven Swans has the most direct religious references. Stevens has expressed that he is Christian, but does not overtly advertise this aspect of himself in his music. Stevens has also stated that he does not try to make music "with a message", or music for the sake of preaching. "I don't think music media is the real forum for theological discussions," says Stevens. "I think I've said things and sung about things that probably weren't appropriate for this kind of forum. And I just feel like it's not my work or my place to be making claims and statements, because I often think it's misunderstood."
The songs 'Abraham', 'Seven Swans', 'To Be Alone With You', 'We Won't Need Legs To Stand' and 'The Transfiguration' directly address Christianity on the album Seven Swans. In 'Abraham', Sufjan recounts the Old Testament story in the Book of Genesis when Abraham, ordered by God as a test of faith, leads his son, Isaac, up a mountain and prepares to kill him, as commanded (but before God sends an angel to intervene). The lyrics of 'The Transfiguration' follow the Biblical accounts of Jesus' Transfiguration in Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9: 1-8, and Luke 9:28-36.
Michigan and Come On Feel The Illinoise! are packed with Christian references and metaphors. Michigan contains "Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie", which implores "Oh Lamb of God! Tell us Your perfect design and give us the rod" ("Lamb of God" being a Biblical name for Jesus Christ). The song "Oh God, Where Are You Now?" asks God to "hold me now", to "save somehow", searching for God in the midst of personal turmoil. "There's no other man who could save the dead," the song states. The album closer, 'Vito's Ordination Song', was apparently originally written for Sufjan's friend Vito Aiuto, and its lyrics allude directly to Psalm 139 ("I always knew you. In your mother's arms, I have called your name", "I've made a crown for you"). The song speaks of "When the bridegroom comes" - the New Testament speaks of Jesus Christ as being the Bridegroom and the Church His Bride, finally being united together at the End of Time.
Come On Feel The Illinoise! features the song 'Chicago' with its refrain of "You came to take us, to recreate us", and 'Decatur' has the chorus of "It's the great I Am" ("I Am" being the name the Lord reveals Himself by to Moses in Exodus 3:14). "Casimir Pulaski Day" speaks of "All the glory that the Lord has made" in the midst of personal pain and loss. "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Us!" has the lyrics: "Lamb of God, we sound the horn. Hallelujah!" One instrumental passage has the title of "In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth". "The Seer's Tower" speaks of Emanuel, "With His sword, with His robe He comes dividing man from brothers" (an interesting side note is that "Sufjan" actually means "comes with a sword"). Indeed, the vast majority of songs of Come On Feel The Illinoise! contain lyric lines which can be readily identified as having a basis in Stevens' faith in Christ.
Sufjan's second, electronic album, Enjoy Your Rabbit, contains a song cycle based on of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, culminating with the song "Year of our Lord". Stevens released the original, Christian-themed song "God'll Ne'er Let You Down" on the "To Spirit Back the Mews" compilation on Asthmatic Kitty. The officially unreleased Christmas albums Sufjan Stevens made and then compiled into Songs for Christmas feature suitably Christmas and Christian themed music, both originals and covers of hymns and traditional songs.
Trivia
On Snow Patrol's 2006 album Eyes Open there is a reference to Sufjan and the song "Chicago" in the song "Hands Open" - "Put Sufjan Stevens on and we'll play your favorite song/"Chicago" bursts to life and your sweet smile remembers you."
Sufjan has twice been featured on the FOX television show "The OC". "To Be Alone With You" and "For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti" can be heard on episodes 202 and 315, respectively.
Sufjan Stevens' music has appeared twice on the Showtime dark comedy "Weeds". "All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands" appears on S1E02 over the end credits, and "Holland" appears near the end of S2E10.
Two of Sufjan's songs appear on the soundtrack to "Little Miss Sunshine": "Chicago" and "No Man's Land"
The song "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." appears on the 3rd season of the tv show "Nip/Tuck".
Several songs can be heard on the movie "Driving Lessons"
You can also hear snippets in between CSI shows on 5US
In the TV show "Austin City Limits", he mentioned that when he was a kid, he and his best friend saw something in the sky which they couldn't figure out. They thought it was a spaceship or UFO first, then an eagle or a dragon. Finally they realized it was a giant wasp. He wrote the song "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us!" about the incident and mentioned that the reason they (the band) all have wings on stage is to overcome his fear of flying things.
The song "Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)" is heard in the 2012 "World of Red Bull" television commercial. he is quoted as saying "selling out never looked so good." and "somebody had to pay for all of that Christmas confetti." referring to his recent Christmas album and supporting tour.
In 2017 Stevens wrote two Original Songs to be featured in the gay drama film “Call me by your Name”, entitled “Mystery of Love” and “Visions of Gideon”. He also made a reworked version of his Song “Futile Devices” which is also featured on the soundtrack.
Website:http://sufjan.com
John My Beloved
Sufjan Stevens Lyrics
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Stumbling words at the bar
Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries
Long Island kindness and wine
Beloved of John, I get it all wrong
I read you for some kind of poem
Covered in lines, the fossils I find
Have they no life of their own?
So can we pretend sweetly
Before the mystery ends?
I am a man with a heart that offends
With its lonely and greedy demands
There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead
Such a waste, your beautiful face
Stumbling carpet arise
Go follow your gem, your white feathered friend
Icarus, point to the sun
If history speaks of two baby teeth
I'm painting the hills blue and red
They said beware, Lord hear my prayer
I've wasted my throes on your head
So can we be friends, sweetly
Before the mystery ends?
I love you more than the world can contain
In its lonely and ramshackle head
There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead
I'm holding my breath
My tongue on your chest
What can be said of my heart?
If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
Where there remains but a mark
Beloved my John, so I'll carry on
Counting my cards down to one
And when I am dead, come visit my bed
My fossil is bright in the sun
So can we contend, peacefully
Before my history ends?
Jesus I need you, be near me, come shield me
From fossils that fall on my head
There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead
The lyrics of Sufjan Stevens's song John My Beloved describe a speaker's complicated relationship with another person who may or may not be John. The singer is at a bar, having stumbled in after a long week, and is struck by the beauty of someone with "blue eyes" who serves him fries and wine. The singer notes that this person is "beloved of John" and admits to getting things wrong when trying to read them as a poem. The singer is surrounded by artifacts, "fossils," but questions whether they have any real meaning or life of their own. The chorus of the song asks if the two can simply "pretend sweetly" before the "mystery ends."
As the song continues, the singer's musings become more cryptic. He mentions an "Icarus" and "gem" and "white feathered friend." He paints "the hills blue and red." He speaks of "wasting his throes" on someone's head. He talks about holding his breath and counting his "cards down to one." All of these images seem to be connected in some way to the singer's own history and desires, but it's not entirely clear what they mean. In the second-to-last verse, the song introduces Jesus as a shield against falling "fossils," suggesting that the singer's reflections are not just personal but have deeper spiritual implications.
Ultimately, the beauty of the song lies in its ambiguity. The lyrics and images are suggestive rather than definitive, creating a mood that is melancholic yet also strangely uplifting. The chorus of the song also suggests an optimistic desire for some kind of communion or connection, even as the singer acknowledges his own limitations and the impermanence of life.
Line by Line Meaning
Are we to speak, first day of the week
Is it time for us to talk, on a Sunday?
Stumbling words at the bar
I'm having trouble finding my words at this bar
Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries
You have beautiful blue eyes, and I ordered some fries
Long Island kindness and wine
I'm enjoying your Long Island kindness and the wine
Beloved of John, I get it all wrong
I misunderstand the message of John, the beloved
I read you for some kind of poem
I interpret you as a poetic message
Covered in lines, the fossils I find Have they no life of their own?
The fossils I discover are covered in lines, are they not interesting on their own?
So can we pretend sweetly Before the mystery ends?
Can we enjoy each other's company before everything is revealed?
I am a man with a heart that offends With its lonely and greedy demands
I have a troubling heart that desires company at any cost
There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead
I feel like I have no substance, I'm speaking metaphorically
Such a waste, your beautiful face Stumbling carpet arise
It's a waste to waste your beauty on me, get off the dirty carpet
Go follow your gem, your white feathered friend Icarus, point to the sun
Do what you must, find your own way, like Icarus seeking the sun
If history speaks of two baby teeth I'm painting the hills blue and red
If the past tells of innocent times I'm trying to make those times colorful
They said beware, Lord hear my prayer I've wasted my throes on your head
They warned me, I prayed you'd understand my passionate efforts
So can we be friends, sweetly Before the mystery ends?
Can we enjoy our friendship before everything's revealed?
I love you more than the world can contain In its lonely and ramshackle head
I love you beyond what this world can hold in its crumbling state
There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead
I feel like I have no substance, I'm speaking metaphorically
I'm holding my breath My tongue on your chest What can be said of my heart?
I'm holding my breath with my tongue on your chest, my heart speaks volumes
If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek Where there remains but a mark
If the past is any indication, the kiss on my cheek lingers but like a fading mark
Beloved my John, so I'll carry on Counting my cards down to one
I'll remember John, and I'll continue on alone
And when I am dead, come visit my bed My fossil is bright in the sun
When I pass, come visit me, my impact will be like a fossil shining in the sun
So can we contend, peacefully Before my history ends?
Can we continue together peacefully before our story is over?
Jesus I need you, be near me, come shield me From fossils that fall on my head
Jesus, please help me, shield me from the weight of past troubles
There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead
I feel like I have no substance, I'm speaking metaphorically
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: Sufjan Stevens
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@Anonimous1984
Are we to speak, first day of the week
Stumbling words at the bar
Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries
Long island kindness and wine
Beloved of John, I get it all wrong
I read you for some kind of poem
Covered in lines, the fossils I find
Have they no life of their own?
So can we pretend sweetly
Before the mystery ends?
I am a man with a heart that offends
With its lonely and greedy demands
There's only a shadow of me, in a manner of speaking I'm dead
Such a waste, your beautiful face
Stumbling carpet arise
Go follow your gem, your white feathered friend
Icarus, point to the sun
If history speaks of two baby teeth
I'm painting the hills blue and red
They said beware, Lord hear my prayer
I've wasted my throes on your head
So can we be friends sweetly
Before the mystery ends?
I love you more than the world can contain
In its lonely and ramshackle head
There's only a shadow of me, in a manner of speaking I'm dead
I'm holding my breath
My tongue on your chest
What can be said of my heart?
If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
Where there remains but a mark
Beloved my John, so I'll carry on
Counting my cards down to one
And when I am dead, come visit my bed
My fossil is bright in the sun
So can we contend, peacefully
Before my history ends?
Jesus I need you, be near me, come shield me
From fossils that fall on my head
There's only a shadow of me, in a matter of speaking I'm dead
@hopelessent.1700
Ugh yea but yet again look at songs such as
The Owl and The Tanager
All of Me Wants All of You
Wasps
All for Myself
Size too small
Mouth of Gabriel? I’m not sure on that one tbh
The biblical references or alliterations may be present in some of the ones above but I see these songs mostly fixed on that love
And the mixture of both love and Jesus
To Be Alone With You
I’m in love with his music...
@Svenshine
@@Justin-fb7ni lots of stuff:
One aunt of mine was heavily into drugs in 1970s and 80s. She happened to become a Jehovah’s Witness after talking to one. She cleaned up her whole act and stopped all the drugs and even cigarettes. Yes it’s unfortunate she got into a horrible crazy religion, but this shows that in her case it was actually a good thing for her.
If I was atheist, I would still promote Christianity to people. Because people are dumb and selfish and wrong and egotistical. Would you agree? People tend to be immoral without fear of God and they will do horrible evil things or deeds.
But yes religious people do very bad deeds also. But religion is created by people not God. Many religious people who do bad things are not listening to God. You shouldn’t attach to God the bad things religious humans do. The world needs less religion and more true followers of God.
But what’s really funny and ironic is that this song is about John the Beloved. Who was one of Jesus’ twelve disciples. But many people believe that John the Beloved was in fact a gay man. And there’s a lot of evidence from that time that suggests he was. And then a lot of those people who believe that, many of them also believe or ponder that Jesus was his lover. And there’s a good bit of evidence from that time that suggests that too.
The artist who made this song is a gay Christian (or bi idk). I am too. People get dogmatic and stuff, and they judge gay people. But God told them not to judge, but they still do it anyways. But you can’t attach what people are doing, you can’t attach that to God and blame God for the “followers” that are doing what God said not to do!
Also the bad side, the devil and his followers, they like to infiltrate the churches so that they can do these bad things and make God look bad.
I understand why you feel the way you do about it all. And I hope you will understand what I am saying.
I just thought this comment was really ironic and funny because of the circumstances I explained above! Like how it’s about John the Beloved and the theories some people have about him. & How the artist is a gay Christian and so am I and the thoughts and things that come from it when you have religion who judges us for being gay. It’s hard!
If you read it thank you.
@CC-uf4yy
Cookie Master other Top Pick from The Avalanche:
Soul Bellow (listen to this one alone, whiles trying bathing, OR 1/3 through a long drive it will destroy you.and it will build you back up.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g1f0hZoOFWPKDjvw8oAIy?si=PpP97QSO
2ND
OTHERS 1000% WORTH LISTENING
THE Henrietta Buggy Band
https://open.spotify.com/track/0b8nVJDWvfDdCFrJhr5B9x?si=vy3Svkex
Springfield, OR Bobby got a shad-fly caught in his hair
https://open.spotify.com/track/1TYlZJWUNAJFXeF8FbPRIp?si=vLa7Whst
LASTLY, The Perpetual Self
All bias aside, this songs the jam
https://open.spotify.com/track/2MmtlQDnPpoIkt4OJYJH7I?si=IUowYGLc
@prodigal0
Elliot Smith "Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved."
I believe the entire thing is an allusion to John's relationship with Jesus. Throughout his entire account of Jesus' life he refers to himself as "the one whom Jesus loved". I believe this was done neither in a homosexual nor a prideful way, but rather to show his gratitude and gratefulness for the love he had received from Jesus. Although this is my interpretation based on the title and the references. I think lyrics alternate between "Jesus" and "John", primarily because a kiss on the cheek was referenced (Judas Iscariot):
If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
Where there remains but a mark
Beloved my John, so I’ll carry on
Counting my cards down to one
And when I am dead, come visit my bed
My fossil is bright in the sun
That ties right back to John getting to the tomb first as well. He did not go in, but he specifies that he got to the tomb before Simon Peter. All just my thoughts. Feel free to refute, comment, etc.
@Nick-du2re
This is one of my all time favorite songs, so I decided to paraphrase it as best as I could. In some parts I tried my best to write down what Sufjan was trying to get at, while in other parts I feel like I took some creative liberty.
"Should we speak about the first day of that week? We were at the bar, and we were stumbling on our words. I still remember my order of fries, the kindness of the people of Long Island and the wine.
John, you were beautiful, you had gorgeous blue eyes, but I read you in a completely wrong way. You were like a poem to me; you were almost fully covered in verse. But even though I liked you, did my religious beliefs hold no value? Was my love not sinful? I wanted to pretend, before our connection completely disappeared, that my heart was at fault, consumed by its loneliness and greediness. But through these thoughts, the part of me that loved remained nothing but a shadow, and I ceased to exist. Once these convictions arose, your beauty was entirely wasted. But still, I couldn’t seem to forget us stumbling on the carpet at that bar.
In this moment I don’t want you to remember me, you should continue living your life, following the road to salvation and peace. You must overcome your own limitations, but never exhaust yourself, because when I think back at our time spent together, not only happy memories come to mind but also people’s warnings about our sacrilegious love. And because of what we did, our Lord should hear my prayer: I’ve lived through pain and suffering because of my adoration for you.
But, back then, I wished we could still be friends, so our time spent together could hold some meaning. I blamed everything on our immense devotion for each other, unfathomable for our ramshackle world. But since I couldn’t worship you, there was nothing left for my spirit but to remain a shadow, while my earthly senses vanished.
In our intimate moments, you made me hold my breath, and place my weight on you. At that time, I can’t imagine what could’ve been said about my passion for you. My clearest memory is of you kissing my cheek, an act that forever left a mark on me.
My beloved, my only option is to carry on till I live out my last days and only when I’m dead, you’ll visit me at my resting place, which will be cleansed of lust. For this reason, my righteous bones will shine, reflecting the sun’s light.
Therefore my last request before I die is to be shielded and protected. Jesus, save me from the mistakes of my past, that find ways to perpetually cause me torment. I will finally know religious peace even though I will never have truly loved and in the remaining days of my life I will live as if I’m already dead."
@RJ-ur2dv
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Are we to speak, first day of the week
Stumbling words at the bar
Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries
Long island kindness and wine
Beloved of John, I get it all wrong
I read you for some kind of poem
Covered in lines, the fossils I find
Have they no life of their own?
So can we pretend sweetly
Before the mystery ends?
I am a man with a heart that offends
With its lonely and greedy demands
There's only a shadow of me, in a manner of speaking I'm dead
Such a waste, your beautiful face
Stumbling carpet arise
Go follow your gem, your white feathered friend
Icarus, point to the sun
If history speaks of two baby teeth
I'm painting the hills blue and red
They said beware, Lord hear my prayer
I've wasted my throes on your head
So can we be friends sweetly
Before the mystery ends?
I love you more than the world can contain
In its lonely and ramshackle head
There's only a shadow of me, in a manner of speaking I'm dead
I'm holding my breath
My tongue on your chest
What can be said of my heart?
If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
Where there remains but a mark
Beloved my John, so I'll carry on
Counting my cards down to one
And when I am dead, come visit my bed
My fossil is bright in the sun
So can we contend, peacefully
Before my history ends?
Jesus I need you, be near me, come shield me
From fossils that fall on my head
There's only a shadow of me, in a matter of speaking I'm dead
@elizabeth4689
"I am a man with the heart that offends with its lonely and greedy demands."
god damn.
@cyrusmurphy4072
100th like!
@testgoober193
That broke and fixed me at the same time. That's me. Greedy.
@letmegoletmego
There is no god that would damn that line.
@SarahZ
"The enormity of my desire disgusts me"
@katherinacastr4926
I was going to comment that.
@drummer4916
"I love you more than the world can contain in its lonely and ramshackle head." Wow.
@Dameinthewild
drummer4916 This one did me in: "I am man with a heart that offends with its lonely and greedy demands."
This album is going to change a lot of people I think. It will be an album that marks a point in history in a lot of people's lives. It will be nostalgia. I feel pretty certain. It has already done that to me. I'll hear this song years from now and remember a fleeting moment in my 34th year.
@pedrofreitas3041
+Laura Forster
Hi Laura! I agree with you... this album is special and timeless and hauntingly beautiful...
@christopherschmitz2493
Laura Forster You nailed it! I agree. My 47th summer will always be the breathy "Fourth of July" by Sufyan Stevens.