if you like his music, listen to it, and stop hating. It doesn't matter! he's a visionary, a vangaurd for his generation, and maybe, you should all stop fighting. Guys, it doesn't matter how many times you analyze these lyrics. I think it's the idea that, no matter what you think about religion, you listen to him, and you just love it and you want to convince yourself that it's not religious or that it is, so you can feel good about yourself listening to it.
General Commentyou want to know the best thing about sufjan stevens? it's not the music, and the music is fucking amazing, by the way, it's not his lyrics, which, too, are fucking amazing.
"The tree" is another word for the cross since it was made out of the wood from trees.Īllthearmsweneed, I hope this helps to relieve your confusion. Because of the finished work on the cross, Christians have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. In response to "You gave up your ghost", Sufjan speaks of the Holy Spirit. And for one reason - to accompliish salvation for those who would believe in Him. A lot of times people have a picket-fence house dream of a family with 2.5 children and a dog and a cat, but Jesus chose a much harder life. Hebrews 4:15 says that Jesus was tempted in -every- way - therefore He was tempted sexually, but He never sinned. He was both fully human and fully God (see John 10:30). In response to the line "You gave up a wife and a family", Sufjan is trying to talk about the humanity of Christ. When Sufjan says "They took your clothes", it is describing when the Roman soldiers took Jesus' clothes right before He was crucified (see Romans 19:23-24). There is no other way we could even pray to God without having a relationship with Christ - a believe and faith in Him. On the cross, Jesus showed the perfect example of what love is. I can’t fully put myself in the place of someone who shares their faith with Sufjan, but in loving this song, in letting it become a part of my life as I have, I’m reminded that I don’t have to believe in something to be moved by it.General CommentIt is about Jesus, Allthearmsweneed.
The song holds up no matter how you use it. “I’d swim across Lake Michigan” is a striking image regardless, and I’d be leaving out something pretty major here if I didn’t admit that Sufjan’s breathy whisper saying “I’ve never known a man who loved me” wasn’t fundamental to the development of several romantic fantasies in my youth. Not just with you, but alone with you.Īnd sure, you can pick at the song until it fits a kind of love you’d rather be talking about. Here are these sacrifices, and they are all so we could be alone with one another. That doesn’t make the song not about love - maybe it's agape instead of eros or philia, but still, love. And it’s still such a stunning and simple way of expressing that love. It’s important to just be up front about that - there aren’t really that many valid interpretations of “you went up on a tree,” and Jesus on the cross is the easiest.
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