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You Are the Blood (Castanets cover) Lyrics
You are the blood flowing through my fingers
All through the soil and up in those trees
You are electricity and you're light
You are sound itself and you are flight
You are the blood flowing through my fingers
All through the soil and up in those trees
You are electricity and you're light
You are sound itself and you are flight
You are the blood flowing through my fingers
All through the soil and up in those trees
You are the blood flowing through my fingers
You are the blood that I may see you
That I may see you
You are the blood in me
You are the earth on which I travel
On which I travel
You are the earth under my feet
That I may travel
That I may travel with you
You are the earth on which I write the circumstances
You say what you want from me
You are the solitude that goes against me
That goes against me
You are the quiet in which I dream
In which I sleep, in which I wander
All through the soil and up in those trees
You are sound itself and you are flight
All through the soil and up in those trees
You are electricity and you're light
You are sound itself and you are flight
You are the blood flowing through my fingers
All through the soil and up in those trees
You are the blood flowing through my fingers
That I may see you
You are the blood in me
On which I travel
You are the earth under my feet
That I may travel
That I may travel with you
You are the earth on which I write the circumstances
You say what you want from me
You are the solitude that goes against me
That goes against me
You are the quiet in which I dream
In which I sleep, in which I wander
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this song is a castanets cover. personally i prefer sufjans version. this song is on the AIDS benefit album, Dark Was The Night. it comes out February 16th
also, im not sure if he actually says choir, its hard to tell what he says there. im pretty sure everything else is right though
it is hard to hear, but i think he says "quiet" instead of "choir." it goes with solitude and makes more sense in the context of the last verse. i think the last word is "wonder" but again, not positive.
it is hard to hear, but i think he says "quiet" instead of "choir." it goes with solitude and makes more sense in the context of the last verse. i think the last word is "wonder" but again, not positive.
love this song.
love this song.
Love this, a ton. I've never gotten sick of Sufjan but I've been craving something new from him. I hope his next album sounds something a bit like this. It's so cool and addicting and I love the message within it even though it wasn't written by him.
hahahahaha well you definitely got what you wished for, age of adz is amazing :P
hahahahaha well you definitely got what you wished for, age of adz is amazing :P
i also hope you've watched The BQE, this song is like the entire score of that movie condensed into one song
i also hope you've watched The BQE, this song is like the entire score of that movie condensed into one song
This is a great song and the original is great too. i personally prefer the first 6 minutes of sufjans version but after that it gets away from me. the whole 'dark was the night' album blows my mind though. 100% beauty on an album
this song is so unexpected from him and i'm really hoping to hear an new album from sufjan that goes more in this direction. this is one of my fav tracks. definitely agreed though, the entire compilation is really great.
the almost discordant brass so wonderful
This song is amazing.
If there is a meaning behind this non-sequitur epic it will probably lie within the arrangement. IMO, the songs different sections play as the linear mental stages an AIDS victim would go through (not that I know how an AIDS victim feels as this is a total presumption). It's start off scary, angry and intense and at some goes into a brief but effective moment of disjointed and somewhat electronic noises, to give off a feeling of torture or pain. After that, however, the song mellows with the speaker (or victim, if you will) excepting the blood in him ("You are the earth on which I travel") even if it's killing him because it has done him so much good throughout his life.
The rest of the song is turbulent but with no words because the man has nothing else to say: he has excepted his fate and will fight to the very end.
i was so confused because you meant "accepted" and "excepted" is almost an opposite word in this context
i was so confused because you meant "accepted" and "excepted" is almost an opposite word in this context
Ah jeez, my bad. You know that I meant "accepted". It would not make any sense otherwise.
Ah jeez, my bad. You know that I meant "accepted". It would not make any sense otherwise.
And my interpretation has not changed since.
And my interpretation has not changed since.
it's about christ, life-giving and beautiful.
Possibly. But not every song Sufjan writes or records is about Jesus. (And, as Captain Obvious would say, this is a cover.)
As WheresPoochie pointed out in their analysis, it's all in the arrangement.
It's about love, death, fear, glory, all those things, I think. And a truly remarkable composition to boot, complete (and replete) with one of the most literally awesome codas in modern rock music.