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."
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
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
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Arthur Russell I'll close my eyes and listen to you, the corn…
Astroline Wo Oh Ta de da dumb dumb baby! Wo Oh Ta…
Backstreet Boys My feet on the ground but I can't run Drowning the…
BAKER & VELIAL SQUAD Yes my mind is filled with hate Fuels my thoughts to…
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Big Gimme one reason why Gimme one reason why Why, you're the ap…
Bleeker Getting older, I've been waiting for you to come around. Ove…
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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony We thuggish ruggish niggas always, always And ready to bring…
Bossa A.M. if rose is green and grass is red will you remember…
Break The Silence These days I'm coming clean, finding light through all the…
Brian Page I see your picture on a magazine And my mind is…
C-System I seen different type of colors when I close my…
Callaghan Silence fills the room I’m lying here alone I pull the cover…
Can't Hang I'm feeling sane with a few complaints about the way that…
Carousel Over and over I meet the dream you Don't take me…
Chestnut Bakery There's a time, when you looked up to the sky It's…
Clouds Just had to taste it, thought to find it sour But…
Corderoy I close my eyes I dream I close my eyes I…
Cowboy Junkies I want to walk away Like Judas from the table. Turn my…
Crustation My grieve is anchored in the rain I feel the pleasure…
D.C. Mark I seen different type of colors when I close my…
D.O.N.S. & DBN feat. Kadoc The ground sweeps with morning air The grog of night's affai…
D.O.U.G.H. Girl, it's been a long, long time comin' yes it…
Damn-R Now you're alone Where's your hope Do you even know You stil…
Day Of Contempt Nothing can save me now. I'm not quite sure if it's…
Deep (Gang) (Bump Boomin that ticket cleared) I see some, I like …
Denim blue Back in line, take your time I don't wanna look no…
Denny Strickland Palm trees ocean breeze Yeah, that's where I wanna be There'…
Device feat. Lzzy Hale Baby I get so scared inside, and I don't really understand I…
DJ Sammy I'll never, I'll never, I'll never let you go (x4) Go! I…
Dougal & Gammer Feat Jenna Well the sun is surely sinking down But the moon is…
Dre Dog Yeah It's frisco's finest And see it as a priviledge when …
E Girl, it's been a long, long time comin' yes it…
ED. Close your eyes Isikhathi sokuvala amehlo Close your eyes Is…
Empty I'm sick of living like I'm lost in my mind Staring…
Evan and Jaron Looking over the edge I can almost see you smile But I…
Evan Mike. It's 11 am Where we goin what's the plan So I'm calling…
F.A.R Now you're alone Where's your hope Do you even know You stil…
FAT PROP When things arent as they seem What do you think of…
Flame Close my eyes 涙の数だけ 君の存在が増えてゆく どうしてあの頃もっと 大切にしなかったんだろう 君のいない…
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French For Rabbits Into the silence, this is the void I was trying…
Glenn & Ronan Wait for me to say my part Please don't slam the…
Gloria Estefan If I could just close my eyes See just what I…
Gold Mind Squad The thought of you, it gets me everytime Maybe it's, the…
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I Know Leopard Hits me like it's a memory Lifts me out of the…
Incognito I'm packing my bags and I'm on my way It's time…
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Jarvis Grey floaters inside my eyes And visible when you look into…
John Anthony Time for us There never seems to be enough When we find…
Johnny Hi-Fi Fall out of bed, I put my head in the…
Jordan Knight I live my days with the nights that we spent…
Juanita Family and Friends I crash into your world, Something new I can feel...…
July A.D. The ground sweeps with morning air The grog of night's affai…
K Theory & Jarvis Grey floaters inside my eyes And visible when you look into…
K-O Hold tight用力爱 Open你的eyes 剧情变得越加精采 抓住爱别放开 请你仔细看 one 要送你完美的承诺 …
Kaylow even though you know my love is real you still wana…
Kieran Goss I close my eyes and then I can see Everything I…
King B Come back to me, baby I feel so all alone It rained…
Krysten Berg CLOSE MY EYES We used to run under rain and sun,…
Ksenona See you in the next life for this one isn't…
Leo and the Lineup I thrive in the middle of the night When all is…
Leonid Vorobyev & Friends I crash into your world, Something new I can feel...…
Lil B (This goes out to all the cats In the projects) 05…
Lily and the Pearl Hey Hey Baby, baby I have to say That there's something you…
Lindo Nothing in life’s free I had to pay for everything They just…
Lorenzo Fragola Late night, calling Would be nice to hear your voice Long ti…
Love Is Red Question morality Question your authority Question everythin…
M. Wivolin if rose is green and grass is red will you remember…
Made By Machines All alone nothing there Cold and poisoned empty stare You tr…
Mall Girl Spiraled into Something big Grew into something Strangely …
Manic Street Preachers Close my eyes and then I count to ten Shake some…
Mariah Carey I was wayward child With the weight of the world…
Markus Fagervall How did we get to this? I used to belive in…
Matisyahu See no matter where I am bless me with all…
Mekdes Face down and eyes shut, why am I A stranger in…
Merkules My Girlfriend All I need in this life is her One Two,…
mesh-29 If you were I then I'd be right and you'd…
Mitya When I close my eyes All I can see Is when you…
Momo Said i close me eyes to see your face when ever i'm without…
Mr. Criminal All I have seen All I have heard All of these things…
Orb Roybison Every time I close my eyes I think of how it…
Ozzy Osbourne Baby, I get so scared inside and I don't really…
Pain Can't see faith through the tears of my swollen eyes I try…
Paul Janz I found you when I wasn't looking I didn't look when…
Redding Hunter I close my eyes and listen To hear the corn come…
Riddle You're just too good to be true I can't take my…
Ride Last night I had such a good time But there's a…
Rob Mayes Reaching for the bottle Tryin to drown your sorrows Why do I…
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Sander Van Doorn Maybe it's a habit, Maybe it's a sin, But i'll…
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Sanity I haven't seen you for a while But I see you…
Sarah McTernan Ohhhhhh When you were here I didn't notice The little things…
Scott Doran Caspar J. V. Kedros & Jade E. Pybus Close your eyes (close your eyes) Take a deep breath Open…
Sheer Terror My stomach turns and the cigarette burns a hold in…
Sizzla and Matisyahu See no matter where I am bless me with all…
SLO-O Close your eyes Bizarrement tout le monde sait danser Dès q…
Sohyang 언젠가 한 번쯤 다시 와줄까 따스한 햇살 아래 미소 짓는 날 헛된 꿈이라 비웃어대듯이 차가운…
Steve Ivey Don't know when I've been so blue Don't know what's come…
Sunmoon I close my eyes I'm blinded by the traffic lights How t…
The Little Flames Dreading on broken Ice memories froze longer Go helpless …
The Northern Territories Hey, I've been here before I can remember it all It's slow…
The Open There is something wrong inside my head Gotta find a way G…
The Pierces Lo-lo-lo-lo-love Lo-lo-lo-lo-love Lo-lo-lo-lo-love Lo-lo-…
The Screw-Ups The number one biggest game It's when they gain the most…
The Slackers When I said that ain't my style I only waited for…
The Souls I love you, baby I love you, baby And if it's quite…
The Vespers When I go, take me home When I die, close my…
Trey Anastasio & Matisyahu See no matter where I am bless me with all…
Unions Am I done, is it through? How do you know when…
Velial Yes my mind is filled with hate Fuels my thoughts to…
version 5 Everybody looks like they're mad at me I can't help myself…
Victor Nebot I close my eyes Only for a moment And the moment's gone All…
Watershed I belong a hundred miles from anyone, dreaming of my…
Will Butler I'm tired of waiting for a better day But I'm scared…
WYS Vad händer Savvas? För ikväll, bara för ikväll Hon är bara f…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Sufjan Stevens:
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…
Bushwick Junkie I was only making the move Trying very hard to get…
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…
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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 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…
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@elianagraham6078
oh to see without my eyes
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the first time that u kissed me
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boundless by the time i cried
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u build ur walls around me
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white noise what an awful sound
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fumbling by rogue river
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feel my feet above the ground
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@riverbtw_9286
Lyrics: Oh, to see without my eyes
The first time that you kissed me
Boundless by the time I cried
I built your walls around me
White noise, what an awful sound
Fumbling by Rogue River
Feel my feet above the ground
Hand of God, deliver me
Oh, oh woe-oh-woah is me
The first time that you touched me
Oh, will wonders ever cease?
Blessed be the mystery of love
Lord, I no longer believe
Drowned in living waters
Cursed by the love that I received
From my brother's daughter
Like Hephaestion, who died
Alexander's lover
Now my riverbed has dried
Shall I find no other?
Oh, oh woe-oh-woah is me
I'm running like a plover
Now I'm prone to misery
The birthmark on your shoulder reminds me
How much sorrow can I take?
Blackbird on my shoulder
And what difference does it make
When this love is over?
Shall I sleep within your bed
River of unhappiness
Hold your hands upon my head
Till I breathe my last breath
Oh, oh woe-oh-woah is me
The last time that you touched me
Oh, will wonders ever cease?
Blessed be the mystery of love
@lpl2690
I don't wanna listen to this song too many times because I'm scared it will stop being so special
@mansoursaliba3499
Don't worry it'll always stay special no matter how many times you listen to it.
@javierrubio1431
I relate SO hard
@syifaayu5317
true.
@babyn7742
fucking sameeee
@amelka7675
same.
@eliizaam.5612
this song just hits different when you’re alone..just thinking in your room.
@upsilonnz1684
How'd you know :(
@notjack2093
Lot more when it's three in the morning
@nothingismysavior
And Visions of Gideon