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Sufjan Stevens – Fourth of July
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This song is a conversation between Sufjan and his mother, Carrie, while she was dying in the hospital. Each stanza alternates between them.
Sufjan spoke of this time in an
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Sufjan Stevens – Fourth of July (April Base Version)
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[Verse 1] / The evil, it spread like a fever ahead / It was night when you died, my firefly / What could I have said to raise you from the dead? / Oh, could I be the sky on the
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Sufjan Stevens – Fourth of July (PPD Remix)
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We're all gonna die / The evil it spread like a fever ahead / It was night when you died, my firefly / What could I have said to raise you from the dead? / Oh could I be the sky on
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Sufjan Stevens – Fourth of July - Live
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[Verse 1] / The evil, it spread like a fever ahead / It was night when you died, my firefly / What could I have said to raise you from the dead? / Oh, could I be the sky on the
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Sufjan Stevens – Fourth of July Samples
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See all of “Fourth of July” by Sufjan Stevens’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Sufjan Stevens – Death with Dignity
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The first track off of Sufjan’s 2015 album, Carrie & Lowell
The song’s title is an oblique reference to Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act of 1994, a watershed physician-assisted
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Valleyheart – Fourth of July
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[Verse 1] / The evil, it spread like a fever ahead / It was night when you died, my firefly / What could I have said to raise you from the dead? / Oh, could I be your sky on the
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Genius Deutsche Übersetzungen – Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July (Deutsche Übersetzung)
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[Deutscher Songtext zu „Fourth of July“] / [Strophe 1] / Das Übel verbreitete sich wie ein Fieber / Es war Nacht, als du gestorben bist, mein Glühwürmchen / Was hätte ich sagen
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Sufjan Stevens – The Only Thing
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In an interview about this album, Sufjan talks about how he felt connected to his mother after she died by replicating her self-destructive behavior:
In lieu of her death, I felt
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Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day
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This song details the events that surround the death of the narrator’s female friend, and the crisis of faith that it triggers for the narrator.
Some read this as chronological
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Genius Ukrainian Translations (Український переклад) – Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July (Український переклад)
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[Куплет 1] / Зло поширилося, як лихоманка / Була ніч, коли ти померла, мій світлячку / Що я міг сказати, щоб підняти тебе з мертвих? / О, чи міг би я бути небом четвертого липня
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Sufjan Stevens – The Hidden River of My Life
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[Intro] / 2, 3, 4 / [Verse 1] / Suppose the world was not informed / By real estate or power lines? / The hidden river of my life / Pursued by love / The whispering stone, the
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Sufjan Stevens – City of Roses
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[Verse 1] / A break in the clouds is a break in my day / Face the sun of my salvation / As Hathaway Jones would have made it his own fate / Fly by the wings of your creation / [
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Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
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Just as Chicago is the most important city in Illinois, “Chicago” is the center of Sufjan Stevens' Come on Feel the Illinoise album. More autobiographical than the other songs on
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Sufjan Stevens – Fourth of July Remixes
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See all of “Fourth of July” by Sufjan Stevens’s remixes
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Sufjan Stevens – All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands
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The opening track from Stevens' fourth studio album takes its title from Isaiah 55:12:
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into
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Sufjan Stevens – Wallowa Lake Monster
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An outtake from Sufjan’s 2015 album Carrie & Lowell, “Wallowa Lake Monster” follows in the footsteps of the album’s main releases in its mix of personal childhood story and Oregon
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Sufjan Stevens – Death with Dignity — Helado Negro Remix
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[Verse 1] / Spirit of my silence I can hear you / But I’m afraid to be near you / And I don’t know where to begin / And I don’t know where to begin / [Verse 2] / Somewhere in the
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Sufjan Stevens – The Greatest Gift
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[Verse 1] / Praise the mountain and the rain / All the gifts that still remain / But the greatest gift of all / And the law above all laws / [Chorus 1] / Is to love your friends
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Sufjan Stevens – Blue Bucket of Gold
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As the closing song to Carrie & Lowell, “Blue Bucket of Gold” doesn’t offer much closure. Sufjan reaches out to his surroundings for support–his friends, his faith–and finds
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Sufjan Stevens – Visions of Gideon
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“Visions of Gideon” is one of the two original Sufjan Stevens' songs (the other one is “Mystery of Love”) from the soundtrack for Call Me By Your Name.
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5 Seconds of Summer – 5SOS INFLUENCES Playlist
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5 Seconds of Summer - Want You Back / Lana Del Rey - Dark Paradise / Jet - Look What You've Done / Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) / Joy Division - Love Will Tear
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