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This is my Song/Artist Pick of the Month. Check it out on youtube. This guy is the best and this song is one of those painfully beautiful songs. We have our interpretation of what the song is about, but what do you think? It's not a song that you can listen to once and figure it out, so listen more than once, or if you're like me.. 50 times, because it's such a great song.
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Title: Casimir Pulaski Day
Album: Illinois
Golden rod and the 4-H stone
The things I brought you
When I found out you had cancer of the bone
Your father cried on the telephone
And he drove his car to the Navy yard
Just to prove that he was sorry
In the morning through the window shade
When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade
I could see what you were reading
Oh the glory that the lord has made
And the complications you could do without
When I kissed you on the mouth
Tuesday night at the bible study
We lift our hands and pray over your body
But nothing ever happens
I remember at Michael's house
In the living room when you kissed my neck
And I almost touched your blouse
In the morning at the top of the stairs
When your father found out what we did that night
And you told me you were scared
Oh the glory when you ran outside
With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied
And you told me not to follow you
Sunday night when I cleaned the house
I find the card where you wrote it out
With the pictures of your mother
On the floor at the great divide
With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied
I am crying in the bathroom
In the morning when you finally go
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window
In the morning in the winter shade
On the first of March on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing
Oh the glory that the lord has made
And the complications when I see his face
In the morning in the window
Oh the glory when he took our place
But he took my shoulders and he shook my face
And he takes and he takes and he takes
6 comments:
What a pretty song, Kat! It made very sad, and the song sounds so haunting, but I loved it all the same.
Cool song. You always have the best taste. I interpret it in the more literal sense of a girl he loves lost to cancer.
I think the song is about a boy who loses his girlfriend to cancer and his struggle with his religious beliefs. I love it because it's not preachy, it's just very matter of fact with out being bitter. I love it also because it's a subject we can all relate to, first loves.
great song. this one is still my favorite from sufjan...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoQzWb_f1oA
wow, great song.
Katy that is so awesome about the MHS photo. Wasn't that a lifetime ago? I remember sitting by you in sacrament meetings sometimes, and now I realize that was like 10 years ago, no exaggeration. Wow. Isn't it weird how teenagers think they are so mature and grown up when they really are still children?
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