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
Dreamland
Sufjan Stevens Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Dreamland' by these artists:
14? Beautiful sun rise Moving like high tide Watching with stran…
Akin By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only W…
Amos Lee Dreamland Nothing's ever what it seems You stumble around an…
Andy Allo Dreamland Give me your hand Let me take to my dreamland Las…
Art Garfunkel Sun goes down and says goodnight Pull your covers up real…
Arwen I had a vision in my mind where it was a…
B.A.X. I have arrived at this dreamland I know what I'm worth…
Beats By A.P.I 行こうよ! さあ一緒に 夢の扉開いて 全てのコトがほら キラキラ輝くよDream☆Land Let's go! ワクワク…
BEDROOM - Glass Animals Pulling down backstreets, deep in your head Slipping through…
BENNIE K (www.AsianLoad.com) They can't stop my heart Now get the party started allright…
Bette Midler Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord…
Blank & Jones Bye bye baby Time to hit the road to dreamland You're my…
Blockheads Imagine the world without us, What a pleasant place to be. …
Bloody Blossom The symbol of the night Awakes the souls secrets Drowned w…
Blu feat. Andy Allo Longing for a place, I've only seen it on the…
Blutengel In the darkness of the night The fear crawls into your…
Bob Marley There's a land that I have heard about So far across…
Bob Marley Lee "Scratch" Perry There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Bob Marley & Lee There's a land that I have heard about So far across…
Bob Marley & Lee "Scratch" Perry There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Bob Marley & Peter Tosh There's a land that I have heard about So far across…
Bob Marley & The Wailers There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Bob Marley & The Wailers Lee There's a land that I have heard about So far across…
Bob Marley and Lee "Scratch" Perry There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Bob Marley feat. Bunny Wailer There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Bob Marley Feat. Peter Tosh There's a land that I have heard about So far across…
Bob Marley vs. Lee ''Scratch'' Perry There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Boys (Yeah, see I told y'all this shit was gon' be…
Bruce Hornsby Isn't this old night so nice I hope you can feel…
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers Isn't this old night so nice I hope you can feel…
Bunny & The Wailers There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Bunny Livingston There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Bunny Livingstone & The Wailers There's a land that I have heard about So far…
BZN (Th. Tol/J. Tuijp/C. Tol) When darkness falls And stars …
C & G Everyone ずっと 夢を見たい Don't be shy, tell me why 恐れないで 君が笑えば輝くよ …
Caetano Veloso It's a long Long way from Canada A long way From snow chains…
Cameron I wanna be somebody I wanna tell my own story Don't be…
Canter Hold the image then amend We don’t transform or transcend Di…
Carpenter Mary Chapin Sun goes down and says goodnight Pull your covers up real…
Chills You stay switching sides, you don't got no pride We've been…
chris and john I caught a ride on the Dreamland Express last night I…
D-Mention (Verse 1) Uh, Uh, Huh Yeah Look, Yo, I get this wonderful…
Dale Dan Tony When I'm not around Who will be there woken As you fall…
Dale Watson Sun goes down and says goodnight Pull your covers up real…
Danny Hooper The Great Red Rock is beating, the heart of this…
Dans When I'm not around Who will be there woken As you fall…
David Lussier Dreamland comin' on Come on on to dreamland Come on along to…
Dean Ford Goodnight, my love, goodnight For the sun has gone to bed Re…
DGM I believe you'll carry on Searching into your memories Tak…
Digital Dav I make it happen in my dreamland It's somewhere distant from…
Discussing The Sun Its not that simple I don't know what it is now To…
DJ Ross Waiting, waiting for you in my dreamland I'm talking about m…
Dr. Doomsday Bye bye baby Time to hit the road to dreamland You're mine…
Dreamland [Eriksson / Lundberg] As the morning comes another night …
Dreamtale Come with me my friend You'll see a place beyond reality F…
E. Myers I'm going on a road trip To dreamland No need to come…
Elladrio Sail away, Sail away To a dreamland Sail away, Sail away In …
Elton John & Bruce Hornsby Isn't this old night so nice I hope you can feel…
Émilie Simon Where have you been you sweet little girl Did you find…
Enjin (Whoo! Whoo!) (Whoo! Whoo!) Hey-yeah-yeah Oh-oh 待ちきれない get…
Fan Shiqi Zuo le yi ge guai meng Meng jian le guai Chuan zhe…
Fox Stevenson With extra time I'd like to think I would've done…
Fred Denise and His Orchestra Both: Bye bye baby Time to hit the road to dreamland You're …
Galleon A little boy slips through the door, full of hope…
Gamma Sector We have multiplied, we have taken flight We are hidden in…
Glass Animals Pulling down backstreets, deep in your head Slipping through…
Goad Once upon a time I knew a dreamer he was a stranger…
Gordon Lightfoot You come to me in times of need When you can't…
Graveyard Club I′ve been having visions staring at the ceiling Wearing whit…
H. Shikawa Mmm mmm mmm uh uh uh Mmm wha uh uh uh…
Hammerfall See the light of those who find As time pass you…
Hans-Günter Heumann Dreamland Behind the candycotton field Bridge between the tr…
Hargon Hargon Hargon, Hargon Hargon, Hargon Hargon I had a dream w…
Heaven's Gate (Words: Rettke/ Music: Hunecke-Rizzo, Rettke, Paeth) No t…
Holy Wow When she wakes up She shakes her head Because she lives In…
Honeymoon Suite Don't ya know that I'd bring you back to the…
Hornsby Bruce Isn't this old night so nice I hope you can feel…
Human Tetris Don't scream Don't shout, this is only a dream We all get…
Indica Wave Lost myself looking for purpose Was it worthless Am I…
Ingrid Chavez the stars are falling your life is calling dreamland opens h…
Jack Jaselli Tieni gli occhi sulla strada, non addormentarti Che ne abbia…
Jelani Imani Follow suit up the mountain side Slacks on to match…
Joni Mitchell It's a long, long way from Canada A long way from…
Julien-K Look at the way we turned out Our faces are so…
KITCHEN - Glass Animals Pulling down backstreets, deep in your head Slipping through…
Lab-4 Hey I see the light 君には見えない Wish me luck ye, have a…
Labyrinth Night is leaving too early My dreams are falling away I li…
Lalah Hathaway Time to put your toys away Keep them safe another day…
Leah In this dreamland No one has to hide I awaken And you were…
lecca You come to me in times of need when you…
Lee "Scratch" Perry & Bob Marley There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Leo. I'm going on a road trip To dreamland No need to come…
Lightfoot You come to me in times of need When you can't…
lil sanrio siren I wonder where I'd be If life was just a dream If…
Lillix Deep down In my dreams Meet you in fantasy Somewhere…
Lo-Fi City My cellphone stays silent My thoughts always vibrant (They c…
Lori Spee Dreamland when seen by light of day changes colors- silver i…
Lucy Kaplansky Sun goes down and says goodnight Pull your covers up real…
luda 날아갈 듯해 구름을 밟은 듯 가벼워지네 몸과 내 마음도 Oh 새로운 세상에…
M.H. Stanley Intermediate School Mmm mmm mmm uh uh uh Mmm wha uh uh uh…
Madeleine Peyroux Dreamin' Makin' my way Dreamin' Won't let me stay in…
MAG!C☆PRINCE Everyone ずっと 夢を見たい Don't be shy, tell me why 恐れないで 君が笑えば輝くよ …
Marcia Griffiths There's a land that I have heard about So far across…
Marcia Griffiths There's a land that I have heard about So far across…
Marco Buono Just another ordinary day Nothing special happened And my me…
Mark Spent too much time worrying about my position in this…
Mary Chapin Carpenter Sun goes down and says goodnight Pull your covers up real…
Mednezz Waiting, I'm waiting for you in my dreamland I'm talking ab…
Megan Redmond 6 am wakin' up for somebody else Expectations and I forget…
Mister-Elements-Projekt Yeah, das ist der 1986 Atari flow man Wir packen unsere…
Mistreat I'm sitting and watching as the world goes by, Unhappily…
Morhana In the land of eternal hunt, Golden mountains raise their pe…
MorRay Yeah, yeah, oh Yeah Oh It was hard growin' up like I…
N.R.G. When i woke up in the mornin you Invited me…
Nasum Insolent - you're insolent by heart Suffering in your wastef…
ONI INC. No one can clone you You the real one by my…
Our Lady Peace A mother sets the dinner table Son crashes to the pavement,…
P.J. Price Yeah, I'm living in a dream Mind goes silent and I…
Pandora 101 Bottomless Vales and Boundless Floods And Chasms, and Caves,…
Pet Shop Boys I heard there's a dreamland In another world far away They s…
Peter Tosh & Bob Marley There's a land that I have heard about So far across…
Peter Tosh Bob Marley There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Peyroux Madeleine Dreamin' Makin' my way Dreamin' Won't let me stay in…
Prince & The Time Everyone ずっと 夢を見たい Don't be shy, tell me why 恐れないで 君が笑えば輝くよ …
Priscilla Herdman Sun goes down and says goodnight Pull your covers up real…
Quasimono You are living in a dreamland Du hast das alles nur…
Roger McGuinn It's a long long way to Canada It's a long way…
Sticky Fingers Skull and tones trickle through my bones As I drink my…
Swingrowers By the way, we'll try to go up again - Should…
The Appleseed Cast hammers and nails i've used them for building my face…
The B-52's Meet me tonight in dreamland, Meet me tonight in dreamland, …
The Glass Animals Pulling down backstreets, deep in your head Slipping through…
THE Holy WOW When she wakes up She shakes her head Because she lives In…
The Merry Thoughts We are dredging all the oceans We are lighting all the…
The Rent Lately I've been fantasizing About the world That lies ahead…
The Rose of Avalanche Imagine a time or place anywhere that you'd consider a nigh…
The Sundial [by Edgar Allan Poe (1844)] [Verse 1:] Bottomless vales …
The Time Hey, are y'all ready to party up in here? I said…
The Wailers There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Third World There's a land that I have heard about So far across…
Thirdworld There's a land that I have heard about So far…
Thomas Mraz А что если нету меня? А что если весь мир —…
Thomas Mraz & The Ghosts (Yeah, see I told y'all this shit was gon' be…
Thomas Mraz / GLEBASTA SPAL А что если нету меня? А что если весь мир —…
Thorbjoern Risager & The Black Tornado DREAMLAND BEEN HERE FOR SO LONG I CAN HARDLY BREATHE AND I'…
Time The Hey, are y'all ready to party up in here? I said…
Various Artists Sun goes down and says goodnight Pull your covers up real…
Wild Belle Lift this veil of tears from your eyes There's no more…
Xu Xu Fang Love it is a wild rose When the only thing to…
Yutaka There′s a voice in the wind Hear it calling me In the…
ZELMA STONE I'll give my heart some lovin' So I can give my…
大貫妙子 あなたの笑顔は 悲しいほど まっすぐだった ふりかえらない後ろ姿 雨の街で 理由が聞けるほど 勇気があれば 走って行けた…
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 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…
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 afraid…
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…
and many more tracks by Sufjan Stevens.
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