Fourth of July is genuinely one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard, the lyrics are just a work of art:
“Did you get enough love, my little dove, why do you cry?”
“It was night when you died my firefly”
SUFJAN REFERING TO HIS MOTHER UNIQUELY AS FUTILE SOURCES OF LIGHT AND HER MOTHER REFERRING TO HIM SOLELY AS FLYING ANIMALS
The whole meaning behind the “we’re all gonna die” line that keeps being repeated as a mantra for sufjan to understand that death is sad but its normal and it’ll happen to everyone eventually
And the most heartbreaking and beautiful lyric ever:
✨My little Versailles ✨
It just holds such a special place in my heart ♥️
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Sufjan Stevens | Casimir Pulaski Day
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
All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications when I see
His face In the morning in the window
All 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
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this outro makes me heave
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all the glory when He took our place
But He shook my shoulders and He shook my face
Casimir Pulaski Day, Sufjan Stevens // Death of the Firstborn // Slaughter of the Innocents // War Pieta
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hey guys did you know that in the morning when you finally go and the nurse runs in with her head hung low and the cardinal hits the windowin the morning in the winter shade on the first of march on the holiday i thought i saw you breathing ? and uhh. um well has anyone ever told you that all the glory that the lord has made and the complications when i see his face in the morning in the window all 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. perchance
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It’s the first Monday of March! This means that I will spend the day celebrating an obscure holiday celebrated by 3% of a country on another continent to me by listening to a song about a child dying of cancer on repeat!
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“All 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”
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the poppy war, r.f. kuang; casimir pulaski day, sufjan stevens
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why is no one talking about the complications you could do without when i kissed u on the mouth???
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