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To Be Alone with You Lyrics
I'd swim across Lake Michigan
I'd sell my shoes I'd give my body to be back again In the rest of the room To be alone with you To be alone with you To be alone with you To be alone with you You gave your body to the lonely They took your clothes You gave up a wife and a family You gave your ghost To be alone with me To be alone with me To be alone with me You went up on a tree To be alone with me You went up on a tree I've never known a man who loved me
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11-11-2004
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11-19-2004
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11-19-2004
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01-01-2005
In response to the line "You gave up a wife and a family" , Sufjan is trying to talk about the humanity of Christ. He was both fully human and fully God (see John 10:30). Hebrews 4:15 says that Jesus was tempted in -every- way - therefore He was tempted sexually, but He never sinned. 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. And for one reason - to accompliish salvation for those who would believe in Him.
In response to "You gave up your ghost", Sufjan speaks of the Holy Spirit. Because of the finished work on the cross, Christians have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
"The tree" is another word for the cross since it was made out of the wood from trees.
Allthearmsweneed, I hope this helps to relieve your confusion.
For His Glory,
PemberleyTea
Colossians 1:19
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01-13-2005
Yes, it's about Jesus. A turn off generally when it comes to music, but Sufjan has a way of keeping it introspective, artistic and personal that doesn't alienate us good, Christianity-shunning secularists.
This song is gorgeous.
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02-23-2005
and. yeah.. it's a beautiful song. i dunno. sufjan's simply amazing. can't get enough of it..
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03-02-2005
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03-06-2005
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03-17-2005
1) Sufjan saying "I've never met a man who loved me.." except for Jesus.
2) Jesus saying "I've never met a man who loved me." But he loved man anyway.
That's my take.
02-23-2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoQzWb_f1oA
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04-01-2005
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04-02-2005
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04-05-2005
Whether or not people like it, Sufjan wrote a song about, yes, HIS BELIEFS.
I love it.
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04-13-2005
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04-22-2005
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05-03-2005
Second of all PemberleyTea if you ever see this, I was wondering if you knew about any other good Christian music like Sufjan. Everything else out there that I have heard of is horrible.
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05-07-2005
Nice, Gummi.
Sufjan's coming out with another album this summer, this time on the state of Illinois. If you want to hear a song from it go to www.pitchforkmedia.com and click on the free downloads link in the upper right. The song Chicago from his new CD is available for download there. I think it's great, though it's not like anything from Seven Swans.
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06-25-2005
Walty- I was raised Christian and I was only allowed to listen to Christian music for a lot of my younger years. Some of the artists I found were good and even though I'm not Christian anymore I still listen to them. Pedro the Lion, Over the Rhine, Jennifer Knapp, and Sixpence None the Richer produce literate and innovative Christian music, though not quite of Sufjan's quality.
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07-13-2005
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07-14-2005
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07-17-2005
this seems different, however. as the bible passages that have been cited have proved, there's a strong christian connection (but given how much of the bible there is, it seems possible to give almost any line, especially ones so vague, a christian slant). yet there's something about the christian explanation of the song that bothers me: the third and fourth lines. I dunno, they seem to suggest to me that he's somehow lost his connection. that he'd swim across lake michigan to be alone with the big J again. like it's a trial of faith rather than a pure devotional song.
and to wrap this ramble up with my initial thought, that feeling is so disparate from, to use a example from the bottom of the barrel, apologetix's abomination "come out and pray". It doesn't scream we're better than you, it simply invites you to sit next to it a while and see what happens.
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07-17-2005
Have a grand eveening.
GODBLESS
-Nicholas
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08-11-2005
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08-15-2005
sublime guy,
who doesn't want to be alone with Jesus? Spirtual Connection. You know.
10-08-2009
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08-26-2005
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