| Sufjan Stevens – A Sun Came Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Such a Christian song, yet so beautiful. "Everything You are is everything we have" I find so much meaning in that line. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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As said before, Casimir Pulaski Day is a holiday on March 1st in Illinois. I take this song as praising God for blessing him with something so great-the "girl", yet being frusterated and angry with him for taking all that away. One thing I'm not sure about is this line- "In the morning when you finally go, and the nurse runs in with her head hung low, and the cardinal hits the window." The cardinal hitting the window I have always taken as running into something unexpected. Yet this song is about spending time the the girl before her death, which is "expected [for lack of better word] soon. So it wouldn't be unexpected. What is unexpected then? As often as I put this song on repeat and listen to it over and over again, it never fails to awe me with its beauty and make me cry. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Lord God Bird Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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From the Christian point of view, this song is quite easy to interpret. The "Lord God Bird" is God. We, as humans, are the sewing machines "industrial gods" "And the hunters beware, or the fishers fall And paradise might close from its safe flight flawed" I take this to mean that for the people who hunt and fish for other beliefs other than that of God, "paradise" or heaven, is closed to them because of this flaw. "Yes it's the great God bird through it all" What's are you all's thoughts on this interpretation? |
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