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All Delighted People (Classic Rock Version) Lyrics
Tomorrow you'll see it through
The clouded out disguises put you in the room
And though I wandered out alone
A thousand lights abounded on our home
And I remember every sound it made
The clouded out disguises and the grave
So yeah I know I'm still afraid
Of letting go of choices I have made
All delighted people raise their hands
And I took you by the sleeve
No other reason than to be your leading man
And you woke up with a fright
Our lives depended on the visions through the night
All we had always, all we had always wanted to before
The hurricane inclined us, grappling on the floor
All delighted people raise their hands
Still the force of nature spurned
Ideas of strength and style abated by the burning basement
All delighted people raise their hands
I'm not easily confused
The trouble with the storm inside us grew
But I had so much to give
In spite of all the terror and abuse
All delighted people raise their hands
And the people bowed and prayed
And what difference does it make?
It doesn't matter anyway
The world surrounds us with its hate
Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to strangle you in spite of what you'd like
And don't be a rascal, don't be a laughing dog in spite of odds
All I'm deciphering from the spirits in the light within
All delighted people raise their hands
In restless dreams I walked alone
The clouded out disguises left me in a dream of lightness
All delighted people raise their hands
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And what difference does it make?
I love you so much anyway
And on your breast I gently laid
Your arms surround me in the lake
I am joined with you forever
All delighted people raise their hands
I'm not easily confused
I feel alive I feel it glowing in the room
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
The clouded out disguises put you in the room
And though I wandered out alone
A thousand lights abounded on our home
And I remember every sound it made
The clouded out disguises and the grave
So yeah I know I'm still afraid
Of letting go of choices I have made
All delighted people raise their hands
No other reason than to be your leading man
And you woke up with a fright
Our lives depended on the visions through the night
All we had always, all we had always wanted to before
The hurricane inclined us, grappling on the floor
All delighted people raise their hands
Ideas of strength and style abated by the burning basement
All delighted people raise their hands
The trouble with the storm inside us grew
But I had so much to give
In spite of all the terror and abuse
And the people bowed and prayed
And what difference does it make?
It doesn't matter anyway
The world surrounds us with its hate
I've come to strangle you in spite of what you'd like
And don't be a rascal, don't be a laughing dog in spite of odds
All I'm deciphering from the spirits in the light within
All delighted people raise their hands
The clouded out disguises left me in a dream of lightness
All delighted people raise their hands
To the neon god they made
And what difference does it make?
I love you so much anyway
And on your breast I gently laid
Your arms surround me in the lake
I am joined with you forever
I'm not easily confused
I feel alive I feel it glowing in the room
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
All delighted people raise their hands
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song. The homage that is paid to simon and garfunkel's "sound of silence" is done so well. as for the meaning, i think that's harder to decipher, especially having to splice the content of the song with content of the simon and garfunkel and how the two relate to the artist.
i'm just in love with it. if this were anyone else, taking a simon and garfunkel song i think i would be revolted, but this is done so, so well.
I absolutely agree. Ah! Amazing.
I absolutely agree. Ah! Amazing.
Sufjan Stevens beautifully wraps his story around the music, provokes the listener to think of the world and encoursges him to feel the emotion. What an amazing song.
It's clearly about struggling with his faith as a grown man. It reminds me of Kevin Barnes' 'The Past Is A Grotesque Animal'. Although Barnes' acts as some manic depressive opus, both are about struggling with the concepts of desire.
the first movement (because this is a pop symphony at 11 minutes, no?) sounds like seven swans: a letter to god about being too human for his own liking. He's simply asking our opinion: 'All delighted people, raise your hands'. He needs to know.
things that come to mind in addition to the homage to Simon and Garfunkel (who themselves questioned what they saw as grotesque about an increasingly corporate and mechanical living)
-crises in faith related to some of the horrors of living in the modern world -references to the light within -the call to all "delighted" people to either respond to, or make their presence known to the "darkness"