To me this song is about the ultimate acceptance of social identity. Sufjan spent the first seventy minutes talking about vanity, murder, love, death, fear, ambition, failure, and it is all indeed very laughable. It is the mess of human life, and in the final song we plunge face first into that mess, free and content.
To me this song is about the ultimate acceptance of social identity. Sufjan spent the first seventy minutes talking about vanity, murder, love, death, fear, ambition, failure, and it is all indeed very laughable. It is the mess of human life, and in the final song we plunge face first into that mess, free and content.