Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens (Born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, songwriter, and… Read Full Bio ↴Sufjan Stevens (Born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the folk revival through indie pop, but his influences are very broad, including experimental electronic music, the jazz of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
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."
The film "Little Miss Sunshine" featured pieces of two songs from Come on Feel the Illinoise in its soundtrack.
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 song 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
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."
The film "Little Miss Sunshine" featured pieces of two songs from Come on Feel the Illinoise in its soundtrack.
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 song 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
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02-Away in a Manger Away in a manger, No crib for His bed The little Lord…
07_-_The Child With The Star On His Head Positive Christmas energy, desperately seeking Santa, Take 3…
08-The Friendly Beasts Jesus our brother, strong and good Was humbly born in a…
A Good Man is Hard To Find Once in the backyard, she was once like me, she was once…
A Good Naysayers Speak Up or For "All good thoughts" in spite of righteousness is the kind of…
A Holly Jolly Christmas La la la, la la, la la Have a holly jolly…
A Little Lost Oh I'm a little lost Without you That may be an understateme…
A Loverless Bed Such a shame that I can't get over this; Put the…
A Running Start If I imagine myself peaceful on the fire escape Head first,…
A Sun Came Everything You are Is everything we have, You're the only g…
A Winner Needs a Wand Like it's killing me, It's kidding me around. This bite, Yo…
Abraham Abraham, worth a righteous one. Take up on the wood, Put it…
Adlai Stevenson Righteous men of the earth Oh have you been patient I suppos…
Age of Adz Well I have known you For just a little while But I…
Ah Holy Jesus Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended That we to judge…
Alanson Crooked River (Instrumental)…
All Delighted People Tomorrow you'll see it through The clouded out disguises put…
All for Myself To bare it down to be in flight, to bare…
All good nay sayers speak up or forever hold your peace "All good thoughts" in spite of righteousness is the kind o…
All Good Naysayers Speak Up! or Forever Hold Your Peace! "All good thoughts" in spite of righteousness is the kind of…
All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace! All good thoughts in spite of righteousness Is not the kind…
All of Me Wants All of You Shall we beat this or celebrate it? You're not the one…
All Of Our Hands If I am alive this time next year Will I have…
All the King One mother rises, pulling the sheets from the grill All the…
All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands If I am alive this time next year Will I have…
Alphabet St No! I'm going down 2 alphabet street I'm gonna crown the fi…
Amazing Grace Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like…
America Is it love you're after? A sign of the flood or…
Angels We Have Heard on High Angels we have heard on high Sweetly singing o'er the plains…
Arnika Arnica might take out the throes that I threw in…
Ativan I woke up in stereo, I spent the day in…
Auld Lang Syne Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind?…
Ave Maria Ave Maria, gratia plena Maria, gratia plena Maria, gratia pl…
Away in a Manger Away in a manger, No crib for His bed The little Lord…
Back to Oz All my life was calling All my dreams were buried away You…
Bad Communication I'll talk but I know you won't listen to me Oh…
Barcarola Oh, no one else is happily, recklessly Asking for more than…
Beginner’s Mind Bodhi tree grows in the light Shotgun shell, cannon fire Bab…
Belly Button One time, this kid ate too much food, And the…
Blue Bucket of Gold One, two, three My blue bucket of gold Friend, why don't yo…
Borderline Oh there is a house, A wonderful lover, A satisfied hole, Ho…
Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light Break forth O beauteous heavenly light And usher in the morn…
Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella Bring the torch Jeanette, Isabelle Bring the torch Come swif…
Carlyle Lake Oh, stop thinking of tomorrow, don't stop thinking of today …
Carol of St. Benjamin the Bearded One I can see you there Oh, in the snowbank With a snowman…
Carrie Carrie and Lowell Such a long time ago Like a dead horse Mea…
carrie %26 lowell Carrie and Lowell Such a long time ago Like a dead horse …
Carrie & Lowell Carrie and Lowell Such a long time ago Like a dead horse Mea…
Casimir Pukaski Day Goldenrod and the 4H stone The things I brought you When I…
Casmir Pulaski Day Goldenrod and the 4H stone, the things I brought you, when…
Chicago I fell in love again All things go, all things go Drove…
Chicago (Multiple Personality I fell in love again All things go, all things go Drove…
Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version) I fell in love again all things go, all things go drove…
Christmas Face Though I try to find my own way To make your…
Christmas in July If I miss my chance, I didn't even try I'm not…
Christmas In The Room No travel bags, no shopping malls No candy canes, no Santa…
Christmas Unicorn I'm a Christmas Unicorn, in a uniform made of gold With…
Christmas Woman Christmas is the time of year When the patrons and the…
Cimmerian Shade The lamb cries 'til ears ring I cannot love from my…
City of Roses A break in the clouds is a break in my…
Come on One two three four O come, o come Emmanuel And ransom capti…
Come on Feel the Illinoise Part 1: World's Columbian Exposition Oh, gr…
Come On Feel The Illinoise! Oh, great intentions I've got the best of interventions But …
Come On Lets Boogey To The Elf Dance! Tie up your boots! Jump off the ladder! Pack up your cloth…
Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Oh great intentions I've got the best of interventions But w…
Come on! Feel the Illinoise Oh, great intentions I've got the best of interventions But …
Come on! Feel the Illinoise! Part 1: World's Columbian Exposition Oh, gr…
Come On! Feel The Illinoise! -Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition -Part II: Carl Sandburg Visit Oh, great intentions I've got the best of interventions But …
Come On! Feel the Illinoise!! Part 1: World's Columbian Exposition Oh, gr…
Come on! Feel the Illinoise!.. Oh, great intentions I've got the best of interventions But …
Come On! Let Tie up your boots! Jump off the ladder! Pack up your clothes…
Come on! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance! Tie up your boots! Jump off the ladder! Pack up your cloth…
Come Thou Font Come, Thou Fount of every blessing Tune my heart to sing…
Concerning the UFO Sighting Ne When the revenant came down We couldn't imagine what it was …
Coventry Carol Anything we should know about your change? -- Lullay, thou…
Damascus Does the border temple fall down I fall down When the appr…
Dear Mr. Supercomputer Oh my God I can't believe it What went wrong? The human race…
Death Star Death star into space Trash talk, violate What you call the …
Death with Dignity Spirit of my silence I can hear you, but I'm…
Decatur One, two, three, four Our step mom, we did everything to…
Decatur or Around of Applause for One, two, three, four Our step mom, we did everything to…
Decatur Or Round Of Applau One, two, three, four Our step mom, we did everything to…
Decatur or Round of Applause for Your Step Mother! Our step mom we did everything to hate her She took…
Decatur or Round of Applause for Your Step-Mother! One, two, three, four Our step mom, we did everything to…
Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! Our step mom we did everything to hate her She took…
Demetrius Reach for the archer. He chose an offer. You are only a…
Detroit Once a great place. Now a prison All I can say.…
Detroit Lift Up Your Weary Head! Once a great place. Now a prison All I can say.…
Detroit%2C Lift Up Your Weary Head! Once a great place. Now a prison. All I can say.…
Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!) Once a great place. Now a prison All I can say.…
Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day This time of year you always disappear You tell me not…
Die Happy I wanna die happy I wanna die happy I wanna die happy I…
Ding! Dong! One Mother rises, pulling the sheets from the crib All the…
Ding-A-Ling-A-Ring-A-Ling 1, 2, ready, go Ding-a-ling-a-ling Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-din…
Djohariah I know you won't get very far With the back seat…
Do You Hear What I Hear Do you see what I see? Do you see what…
Drawn to the Blood I'm drawn to the blood The flight of a one-winged dove How?…
Dumb I Sound Something's suddenly unclear, Someone's suddenly my fear. My…
Earth Innocence was never lost Though it may have been insulted Ev…
Enchanting Ghost Tell me what you saw in me And I'll try to…
Eugene Light struck from the lemon tree What if I'd never seen…
Everything That Rises Can you lift me up to a higher place? Forget everything…
Exploding Whale I'm nobody's friend Loneliness rides in my bed My misfortune…
Far Physician's Son Far physician's son Holds Isaiah's song Went to Galilee W…
Flint It's the same outside, Driving to the riverside. I pretend …
Flint (For the Unemployed and It's the same outside, Driving to the riverside. I preten…
For The Widowers In Paradise For The Fatherless In Ypisilan I have called you, children I have called you, son What is…
For the Widows in Paradise I have called you, children I have called you, son What is…
For the Widows in Paradise for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti I have called you, children I have called you, son What is…
For the Widows in Paradise; For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti I've have called you children I have called you son What i…
For the Widows of Paradise For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti I have called you, children I have called you, son What is…
Fourth of July The evil it spread like a fever ahead It was night…
Free Man in Paris "The way I see it," he said, "You just can't…
From the Mouth of Gabriel Desperate measures lead to death From the mouth of Gabriel W…
Futile Devices It's been a long, long time since I've memorized your…
Genuflecting Ghost Give myself as a sacrifice Genuflecting ghost, I kiss the fl…
Get Behind Me Santa! I know whatcha doing to me boy, You move so fast…
Get Real Get Right I know you want it I know you really wanna get…
Gilgamesh I'm four degrees off the ground I am lost, forgive me Four…
God'll Ne'er Let You Down Every day, He'll never let you down Chase his name, He'll…
Godzuki "Oh, who is that? She looks good. What's your name?" "My…
Good King Wenceslas La la, hey! It's Christmas Good King Wenceslas looked out O…
Goodbye Evergreen Goodbye, evergreen You know I love you But everything heaven…
Goodbye to All That (I'm your ticket tonight) (I'm your ticket tonight) (I'm you…
Grace Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like…
Happy Birthday Like the lantern on a tree Your burden bright as weary…
Happy Family Christmas 1, 2, and 1 2 3 4 Just this once for…
Happy Karma Christmas Would it have been best to forget you Would it have…
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Hark the herald angels sing "Glory to the newborn King! Peac…
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be lig…
He Woke Me Up Again He was, he was in the churchyard My father was in…
Heirloom When your heirloom's wilted brown When the devil's pushing d…
Henney Buggy Band Oh life, with your shoulders in the mirror From the park…
Hey Guys! It We can walk out after dark 'Cause it's Christmas Time! Color…
Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time! We can walk out after dark Because it's Christmas time Color…
Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time! We can walk out after dark, Because it's Christmas time Co…
Holland All the time we spent in bed Counting miles before we…
Holy Holy etc Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning Ou…
Holy Holy, Etc. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty Early in the morning our…
How Can The Stone Remain I come across to you as a half Everything I do…
How Can The Stone Remain? i come across to you as a have everything i do isn't all…
How Shall I Fitly Meet Thee How shall I fitly meet Thee And give Thee welcome due? The…
How Shall I Fitly Meet Thee? How shall I fitly meet Thee And give Thee welcome due? The…
I Move me Move like the waters I cannot drink I have lost…
I Am Santa I am Santa's helper, you are Santa's slave I am Santa's…
I Am Santa's Helper I am Santa's helper, you are Santa's slave I am Santa's…
I Can't Even Lift My Head If I should ever disappear, What would I come to? What would…
I Saw Three Ships I saw three ships come sailin' in On Christmas day, on…
I Walked Lover, will you look at me now? I'm already dead to…
I Want To Be Well To think that I would die this time Isolated in the…
I Went Dancing with My Sister We were, we were We were lovers We had no one But…
I'll Be Home For Christmas I'll be home for Christmas You can plan on me Please have…
Idumea And am I born to die To lay this body down And…
Impossible Soul Ooh, woman, tell me what you want And I'll calm down…
In the Devil Be still and know your sign. The Beast will arrive in…
In the Words of the Governor yeah girl you think you've got it coming back to…
It Shall we all talk paternal? Shall we all talk of the…
It's Christmas ! Let's be glad ! Since it's Christmas! Let's be glad! Even if your life's bee…
I’ll Be Home For Christmas I'll be home for Christmas You can plan on me Please have…
Jacksonville I'm not afraid of the black man running He's got it…
Jacob He took his mother's words to song He put his brother's…
Jason Jason, you're the only one. Jason, like a steady son. Like t…
Javelin Searching through the snow For the javelin, I had not meant…
Jingle Bells If I miss my chance, I didn't even try I'm not…
John My Beloved Are we to speak, first day of the week Stumbling words…
John Wayne Gacey Jr. His father was a drinker and his mother cried in…
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. His father was a drinker And his mother cried in bed Folding…
John Wayne Garcy Jr His father was a drinker and his mother cried in…
Joy to the World Joy to the world, the Lord has come Let earth receive…
Joy! Joy! Joy! I would like to throw a field Yes, I would like…
Jupiter Winter Oh Father Christmas, Come to us, come to us Perfect and with…
Justice Delivers Its Death Silver and gold, silver and gold Everyone wishes for it Ho…
Kill He took the stable, Bred me to be a mare. Made…
Lamentations Take me into all of your life I am the future,…
Landslide It was something of a second life It was something of…
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Oh the weather outside is frightful But the fire is…
Let's Boogey To The Elf Dance Tie up your boots! Jump off the ladder! Pack up your cloth…
Lift Up Your Heads Ye Mighty Gates Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates Behold, the King of…
Little Drummer Boy Come, they told me pa-rum pum pum pum Our newborn King…
Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming Lo, how a rose e'er blooming From tender stem hath sprung Of…
Lo! How a Rose E Lo! How a Rose e're blooming, From tender stem hath sprung, …
Lo! How a Rose E’er Blooming Lo! How a Rose e'er blooming From tender stem hath sprung Of…
Love Yourself Love yourself You are the one thing I needed Share of yourse…
Loverless Bed Such a shame that I can't get over this; Put the…
Lumberjack Christmas %01 No One Can Save You From Christmases Past One, two, three, four! Oh no, the rugged soul The great back…
Lumberjack Christmas / No One Can Save You From Christmases Past Oh, no, the rugged soul The great backyard and the cold…
Majesty Snowbird Rain bird, laughing in the olive tree, la la dee…
Make Me an Offer I Cannot Refuse Move me Move like the waters I cannot drink I have lost…
Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts One two three four two two three four Trouble falls in…
Marching Band One dark day the trees began a trumpet sound, trumpet sound …
Mars In the future, there will be no war The loneliness outside A…
Metropolis One, two, three, four Two, two, three, four Trouble falls i…
Mistery Of Love Oh, to see without my eyes The first time that you…
Moon I saw it written and I saw it say Pink moon…
Mr. Frosty Man It's time to tango with the frisky, frosty Frosty Man He's…
My Rajneesh After the storm, we shaved our legs to the skin Into…
My Red Little Fox I drink 'til it's lost Drinking words within That spin down …
Mystery Of Love Oh, to see without my eyes The first time that you…
Neptune What's right and what's wrong? Don't you hold me too lightly…
Niagara Falls We had friends downstate When we drove we went to Canada I…
No Man's Land Up in the highest of heights, O'Hara blinks and fights This…
No Man’s Land Up in the highest of heights O'Hara blinks and fights This l…
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross Now that I fell into your arms My only lover, give…
Now That I It's different now I think I wasn't older yet I wasn't wis…
Now That I'm Older It's different now I think I wasn't older yet I wasn't wise,…
O Come O Come Emmanual One two three four O come o come Emmanuel And ransom captiv…
O Come O Come Emmanuel One two three four O come, o come Emmanuel And ransom capti…
O Holy Night O Holy Night The stars are brightly shining It is the night…
Oh Detroit Once a great place (once a great place) Now a prison…
Oh Detroit Lift Up Your Weary Head! Once a great place. Now a prison. All I can say.…
Oh God Where Are You Now Oh God, hold me now Oh Lord, hold me now…
Oh God Where Are You Now? Oh God, hold me now Oh Lord, hold me now…
Oh God Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackin Oh God, hold me now Oh Lord, hold me now There's no…
Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?) Oh God, hold me now Oh Lord, hold me now There's no…
Once in Royal David Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed There a…
Once in Royal David's City Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed There…
Only at Christmas Time Only to bring you peace Only at Christmas time Only the King…
opie's funeral song You make it beautiful, friend You make it worth it, to…
Perpetual Self Everything is lost, uh oh But I know that you can…
Pick Up All things passed in the pick-up, found my brother's badge …
Pickeral Lake I wasn't willing To fight on the floor Throwing the chairs…
Pittsfield I'm not afraid of you now, I know So I climbed…
Pluto Jupiter, bad June You know my arms ache And I've organized m…
Prairie Fire That Wanders About Peoria! Destroy-a! Infinity! Divinity! For Lydia, Octavia! …
Prarie Fire That Wanders About For Lydia!Octavia! And Jack-of-Trades! The Cubs! Hooray! …
Predatory Wasp Thinking outrageously I write in cursive I hide in my bed…
Presidents & Magistrates A government has gone this far A covenant prepared to part …
Put The Light On The Tree Put the lights on the tree (Put them on the tree,…
Rake I never felt so safe A line I once told her Warm…
Reach Out I have a memory Of a time and place where history…
Redford (Instrumental)…
Rice Pudding I'm taking you down To the placement field. And when I…
Ring Them Bells Ring them bells, ye heathen from the city that dreams Ring…
Romulus Once when our mother called She had a voice of last…
Run Away with Me And I say, love Come run away with me Sweet, falling remedy …
Santa Claus is Coming to Town You better watch out You better not cry You better not…
Satan's Saxophones I remember when my mother would get sick, She would…
Saul Bellow What's the worth of All the work of my hands? And the…
Sault Saint Marie Sleeping Bear Oh Sleeping Bear! Ran to the top and got scared Of what…
Say Yes Demonstrate I was Raised from the start By a priest and The …
Say Yes! To M!ch!gan Demonstrate I was Raised from the start By a priest and t…
Say Yes! to M!ch!gan! Demonstrate I was Raised from the start By a priest and the …
say yes! to michigan Demonstrate I was Raised from the start By a priest and t…
Seer's Tower In the tower above the earth There is a view that…
Seven Swans We didn't sleep too late. There was a fire in the…
seven swans. We didn't sleep too late. There was a fire in the…
She Is She is the day that gives me time To love and…
Shit Talk No more fighting, no more talking shit Do as I say,…
Should Have Known Better I should have known better To see what I could see My…
Siamese Twins My sister had two babies at one time, they were…
Sister What the water wants is hurricanes, And sailboats to ride on…
Sister Winter Oh my friends I've Begun to worry right Where I should be…
sister. What the water wants is hurricanes, And sailboats to ride o…
Size Too Small I was the best man in a size too small. You…
Sleeping Bear Oh Sleeping Bear! Ran to the top and got scared Of what…
Sleeping Bear Sault Saint Marie Oh Sleeping Bear! Ran to the top and got scared Of what…
Sleeping Bear Sault Ste. Marie Oh Sleeping Bear! Ran to the top and got scared Of what…
Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie Oh Sleeping Bear! Ran to the top and got scared of what…
Sleigh Ride Just hear those sleigh bells jingling Ring-ting-tingling too…
So You Are Tired So you are tired of us So rest your head Turning back…
Soul Bellow What's the worth of All the work of my hands, And the…
springfiel or bobby got a shadfly caught in his hair. I don't care to say What I failed to recognize Every single…
Star of Wonder I call you From the comet's cradle I found you Trembling by …
Sugar Is someone gonna cut me some slack? Now that it's a…
sun Everything You are Is everything we have, You're the only g…
Super Sexy Woman She's a superhuman girl She is Superwoman She is Superman's …
Supercomputer Oh my God I can't believe it What went wrong? The human race…
Supersexy Woman She's a superhuman girl She is Superwoman She is Superman'…
Tell Me You Love Me My love, I've lost my faith in everything (in everything) Te…
That Was the Worst Christmas Ever Going outside, shoveling snow in the driveway, driveway Taki…
The 50 States Song It's part of the act the fifty states Pack up your…
the ascension When I am dead and the light leaves my breast Nothing…
The Avalanche I call you cabin neighbors I call you once my friends But…
The Child With The Star On His Head Positive Christmas energy, desperately Seeking Santa, take 3…
The Dress Looks Nice on You I can see a lot of life in you. I can…
The Fifty States It's part of the act the fifty states Pack up your…
The First Full Moon I saw the first full moon I saw the first part…
The First Noel The first Noel the angel did say Was to certain poor…
The Friendly Beasts Jesus our brother, strong and good Was humbly born in a…
The Greatest Gift Praise the mountain and the rain All the gifts that still…
The Henney Buggy Band Oh life, with your shoulders in the mirror From the park…
The Hidden River of My Life 2, 3, 4 Suppose the world was not informed By real estate…
The Lakes Of Canada Look for me another day I feel that I could change I…
The Little Drummer Boy Come, they told me pa-rum pum pum pum Our newborn King…
The Lord God Bird In the delta sun down in Arkansas, It's the Great God…
The Man Of Metropolis Seals Our Hearts One two three four two two three four Trouble falls in…
The Man of Metropolis Steals Trouble falls in my home Troubled man, troubled stone turn…
The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts One two three four two two three four Trouble falls in…
The Midnight Clear It came upon the midnight clear That glorious sign of old En…
The Mistress Witch from McClure And the winter moves about Illinois When my sister picks a…
The OC- To Be Alone With U I'd swim across Lake Michigan I'd sell my shoes I'd give m…
The One I Love Move me Move like the waters I cannot drink I have lost…
The Only Thing The only thing that keeps me from driving this car Half-ligh…
The Oracle Said Wander Cave the Cadmus country soon. Europa's sake he drew, Till th…
The Owl and the Tanager All I had hoped for I kept inside your car The rabbit…
The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake …
The Perpetual Self or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do Everything is lost, uh oh But I know that you can…
The Perpetual Self, or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?" Everything is lost - uh oh! But I know that you…
The Pick Up All things passed in the pick-up, found my brother's badge …
The predatory wasp Thinking outrageously I write in cursive I hide in my bed…
The River 2, 3, 4 Suppose the world was not informed By real estate…
The Seer In the tower above the earth, There is a view that…
The Seer's Tower In the tower above the earth There is a view that…
The Sleigh In The Moon We wait in our beds tight under the sheets Just peeking…
The Star Spangled Banner Oh, say can you see By the dawn's early light What so…
The Tallest Man the Broadest Shoulders Part I: "The Great Frontier" I count the days the Great…
The Tallest Man the Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier Part II: Come to Me Only With Play Part I: "The Great Frontier" I count the days the Great…
The Transfiguration When he took the three disciples to the mountainside to pray…
The Trees of the Field Will All Clap Their Hands If I am alive this time next year Will I have…
The Upper Peninsula live in America With a pair of Payless shoes The upper penin…
There's a World There's a world you're living in No one else has your…
They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black If you happen to be educated Time it marches on, Oh time…
They Are Night Zombies I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us I-L-L-…
They Are Night Zombies They Are Neighbors They Have Come Back From the Dead IL-L-IN-O-IS! Ring the bell and call or write us IL-L-IN-O-I…
They Are Night Zombies!! They I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S Ring the bell and call or write us I-L-L-I-N…
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neigbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! IL-L-IN-O-IS! Ring the bell and call or write us IL-L-IN-O-I…
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S Ring the bell and call or write us I-L-L-I…
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From Dead! Ahhhh! IL-L-IN-O-IS! Ring the bell and call or write us IL-L-IN-O-I…
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh! I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us I-L-L-I-…
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhhh! I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us I-L-L-…
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!!. IL-L-IN-O-IS! Ring the bell and call or write us IL-L-IN-O-I…
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!!... I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S Ring the bell and call or write us I-L-L-I…
To Be Alone With You I'd swim across Lake Michigan I'd sell my shoes I'd give my…
Tonya Harding Tonya Harding, my star Well this world is a cold one But…
Too Much If I was a different man, if I had blood…
UFO Sighting When the revenant came down We couldn't imagine what it was …
Up On The Housetop Up on the housetop reindeer pause Out jumps good old Santa…
Uranus What are you now?e Castrated by your son The odd spring scat…
Ursa Major For the love of God In the shade of Ursa Major For…
Vesuvius Vesuvius I am here You are that all I have Fire of fire I'm…
Video Game I don't wanna be your personal Jesus I don't wanna live…
Visions of Gideon I have loved you for the last time Is it a…
Vito I always knew you In your mother's arms I have called…
Vito's Ordintaion Song I always knew you In your mother's arms I have called…
Wallowa Lake Monster As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake Leviathan first…
We Are What You Say We are a servant, We have a song, The side of a…
We Need A Little Christmas 1, 2, 3, 4 haul out the holly Put up the…
We Three Kings Two three four five six We three kings of Orient are Bearin…
We Wish You A Merry Christmas We wish you a Merry Christmas We wish you a…
We Won So faithful, so few, So pardon, and done. And when we receiv…
We're Goin' to the Country If you seek a pillow for your head Or a fitted…
What Child Is This Anyway What child is this who lay to rest On Mary's lap…
What Goes On What goes on in your heart? What goes on in your…
Will Anybody Ever Love Me Chase away my heart and heartache Run me over, throw me…
With My Whole Heart I will love you I will love you with my whole…
Wolverine Wolverine Homecoming queen Took the train To Pickerel Lak…
Woman at the Well All the answers. All the gold. There was a high back…
Wordsworth's Ridge A summer night I find a boat Tied to a tree A…
X-mas Spirit Catcher The angel came and said its name But she could not…
Xmas In The Room No travel bags, no shopping malls No candy canes, no Santa…
X‐mas Spirit Catcher The angel came and said it's name But she could not…
Ya Leil (Instrumental with chanting)…
Year of the Ox (Instrumental)…
You Are The Blood You are the blood flowing through my fingers All through the…
You Are the Rake I never felt so safe A line I once told her Warm,…
You Give Death A Bad Name Shot to the skull or a strike to the brain As…