| Sufjan Stevens – Borderline Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It is quite difficult to get hold of at the moment. It is released on the The Dress Looks Nice on You/Borderline 7" vinyl single, but it is sold out and out of production, so my best advice is to try looking it up on E-bay. As for me, I managed to get hold of a promotional only CD version of the single through E-bay. But if you don't bother to look for the single, and don't mind doing illegal downloading, you would probably manage to find a site where you could cownload the mp3. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Far Physician's Son Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song, although dificult to find, is really beautiful. The lyrics are inspired by the story of Jesus reading from the book of Isaiah in the synagogue in Nazareth, and telling that he is the one who is to fullfill the words about healing the sick, breaking the bondage of the prisoners and so on (see Luke 4:16-22). | |
| Bob Dylan – What Can I Do for You? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is really beautiful! Bob asks Jesus what he can do for him, in return for all the great stuff Jesus has done for him, saving him from death, pulling him out of the bondage of sin and so on. | |
| Bob Dylan – Went to See the Gypsy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| A lot of people think the gypsy could be Elvis. That is why it is mentioned that "he did it in Las Vegas", and then it seems as if Elvis has left the building at the end of the song. But what the song really is about apart from this I don't know. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone with You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I really love this song, easily Sufjan's best song, and I really enjoy his music. I'd swim across Lake Michigan I'd sell my shoes I'd give my body to be back again In the rest of the room To be alone with you To be alone with you To be alone with you To be alone with you I think this first verse, is seen from the point of view of Sufjan himself, saying to Jesus that he would do anything and give anything, just to experience his presence again, probably beacuse he has had a really strong spiritual experience in the past, where he really felt the presence of Jesus in physical way, and even though he knows that Jesus is still present in his life, he still longs for a new experience of this kind. When he says: "I'd swim across Lake Michigan", he, in reality, says he would do the impossible to accomplish this, but he seems to acknowledge that he in himself is not able to do this, and thus that he is unable to experience Jesus in this way by using his own strength. You gave your body to the lonely They took your clothes You gave up a wife and a family You gave your ghost To be alone with me To be alone with me In the second verse he contrasts the fact that he is not able to do anything in his own strength to come into the presence of Jesus, with what Jesus has already done in order that Sufjan could come into the presence of Jesus by grace. He gave his body to die on the cross in order that "the lonely" (the human race without God),should be reunited with God. The Bible says that the Roman soldiers at the crucifixion of Jesus divided his clothes between them. Jesus didn't marry, thus giving up "a wife and a family, even though he must have been tempted to it, since the Bible says that Jesus has been "tried in everything, but without sin". And the "You gave your ghost" line, seems to refer to both Jesus dying (giving up his ghost) and that Jesus has sent the Holy Spirit/Ghost in order that those who believe in him, should be able to come into the presence of God. To be alone with me You went up on a tree To be alone with me You went up on a tree I've never known a man who loved me The last part refers to Jesus dying on the cross (tree) as the ultimate sign of love. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Seer's Tower Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Many people have allready commented on the tower establishing a connection between the Sears Tower and the Tower of Babel. But I think it is possible to see this tower built for Emmanuel as the cross on Calvary. Being a tower Jesus (the seer=prophet) is lifted onto, and from where he sees his end (his imminent death), which is also reflected in the lines at the end: "Still I go to the deepest grave Where I go to sleep alone" |
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