| Sufjan Stevens – Impossible Soul Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Here's a quote from Sufjan about Impossible Soul from an interview with Drowned in Sound: "It’s like a Woody Allen film, you know, where there’s the slapstick on the surface that everyone can appreciate, but then, deeper, there’s all these original details. Maybe at the heart of a good Woody Allen film there’s some kind of universal tragedy of humanity that he’s speaking about; a much bigger thing. ‘Impossible Soul’ is really about a very primitive object. I want to get with a girl, and there’s all these obstacles, and shortcomings, and miscommunication… and this is a basic fundamental of life, between two human beings. But then very quickly — through an expository detour — it becomes something else. It’s all about personal happiness, or the state of mankind, or the cosmos — the cosmos is drawn into it. And then it becomes about… what is at the heart of our inability to really connect? Is it fear, or is it self-consciousness? And then it becomes a kind of therapeutic discourse that becomes the centrepiece of the song. But it’s no longer about, just like, “girl, I want to get with you.” It’s more like… what’s wrong with civilisation (laughs)." It makes a lot of sense with the lyrics. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – I Want to Be Well Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I saw him last week in Royal Oak and he said this song was about terminal illness. I think it's also safe to say it's related to the heath issues he was having: http://www.exclaim.ca/News/sufjan_stevens_discusses_his_serious_issues/ |
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