A Sun Came

Hey! you forgot: "I remember when my mother would get sick, she would vomit all over the kitchen, she would vomit on the tables and on the countertops, and in the refrigerator. and uh, oh when we called the dog, the dog would come in and slip on the vomit.

Here are the exact lyrics for this song, transcribed from Sufjan's handwriting in the first pressing of the album. The lyrics are originally written without line breaks.

A sun came: everything You are is everything we have. You're the only good thing: a sun came and burned our faces brown, burned our faces red. You are still the rage, a run from the enemy. There is still a house, a cage for the enemy. And when my friends turn out I found out there's still the Lord. I never felt so lonely: a sun came.

Not that it's incorrect to find literal meaning in the line "a sun came" but it just occured to me that he could be meaning a son came. The rest of the song points to Jesus Christ, the son of God, coming.

you could even add an extra word in the last three lines:

There is still a Lord but I never felt so lonely UNTIL a sun (son) came.

Such a Christian song, yet so beautiful.

"Everything You are is everything we have" I find so much meaning in that line.

"After St. Augustine"

Sunshine let it be or frost, Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost, Thee Thyself we could not lose. -- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Campfirestring, that's the beginning to the song "Satan's Saxophones", not the end to "A Sun Came".

this song sums up sufjan's music: its a sun coming, a new day

this song reminds of summer

It's when you're left alone with God. When you're standing and no one's next to you, he's still there. When your friends turn their backs it's lonely and really sucks, but nothing about God is going to change. He's everything he's always been.