Lyric discussion by _sunshine88 

Cover art for Rake lyrics by Sufjan Stevens

Well, my ex-bofriend gave me this albulm right before we broke up. When he left me, I listened to this song on repeat over and over, not very helpful to getting over him, hehe. Anyway, to me the line "you are the rock, you are the rake" meant that as the rake you helped me grow and live, but you were also a rock and you broke me. At any rate, this song still makes me cry, and it's really beautiful, as is this whole albulm.

@_sunshine88 To me (but I could be entirely wrong), the rock symbol represents something positive, a rock like the foundation of something/someone (my apologies for the religious reference here again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter). But your interpretation certainly makes sense too. It changes the whole meaning of the song!

@_sunshine88 hope you got that break up.