Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July (April Base Version) @SufjanStevensOfficial

Sufjan Stevens Listen here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/fourthofjuly
Listen to the Dumbo version here: youtu.be/hdhOGOBg1G4
Listen to the original here: youtu.be/JTeKpWp8Psw
Watch the music video here: youtu.be/SIGZimaAV4M

Today, July 1, on his birthday, Sufjan Stevens is releasing two alternate versions of his song, “Fourth of July” via Asthmatic Kitty Records.

The new versions are “Fourth of July (April Base Version)”, recorded in Eau Claire, WI at Justin Vernon’s April Base studio, and “Fourth of July (DUMBO Version)”, recorded in Sufjan’s old studio in Brooklyn, NY.

The original version of “Fourth of July” appeared on Sufjan’s album, Carrie & Lowell — a deeply personal album written to process his sorrow after the death of his mother, Carrie. Sufjan would work and rework, and record and re-record, trying to manage the grief. The refrain of the song, “We’re all gonna die,” became an anchor in each version he recorded. At the time of its release and when Sufjan would perform the song live on tour, this lyric and fact of life seemed to shock listeners. Yet its solemnity invited them to feel comfort, connection — even joy — wrought from great pain.

The song has recently had a resurgence with listeners — which may speak to a deep national grief and a yearning to heal. As we head into this Fourth of July weekend — a U.S. holiday marked by war (and death) — it seems the exact correct time to be sharing them.
A limited run physical 7" in red will be released in December 2022, which marks the 10-year anniversary of Carrie’s death.

Lyrics:
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 fourth of July?

“Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry?
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?
Or the Fourth of July?
We’re all gonna die.”

Sitting at the bed with the halo at your head
Was it all a disguise, like Junior High
Where everything was fiction, future, and prediction
Now where am I? My fading supply

“Did you get enough love, my little dove
Why do you cry?
And I’m sorry I left, but it was for the best
Though it never felt right
My little Versailles.”

The hospital asked should the body be cast
Before I say goodbye, my star in the sky
Such a funny thought to wrap you up in cloth
Do you find it all right, my dragonfly?

“Shall we look at the moon, my little loon
Why do you cry?
Make the most of your life, while it is rife
While it is light

Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry?
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?
Or the Fourth of July?
We’re all gonna die.”

updated 2 years ago

Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July (April Base Version)

Sufjan Stevens 2022-07-01 | Listen here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/fourthofjuly
Listen to the Dumbo version here: youtu.be/hdhOGOBg1G4
Listen to the original here: youtu.be/JTeKpWp8Psw
Watch the music video here: youtu.be/SIGZimaAV4M

Today, July 1, on his birthday, Sufjan Stevens is releasing two alternate versions of his song, “Fourth of July” via Asthmatic Kitty Records.

The new versions are “Fourth of July (April Base Version)”, recorded in Eau Claire, WI at Justin Vernon’s April Base studio, and “Fourth of July (DUMBO Version)”, recorded in Sufjan’s old studio in Brooklyn, NY.

The original version of “Fourth of July” appeared on Sufjan’s album, Carrie & Lowell — a deeply personal album written to process his sorrow after the death of his mother, Carrie. Sufjan would work and rework, and record and re-record, trying to manage the grief. The refrain of the song, “We’re all gonna die,” became an anchor in each version he recorded. At the time of its release and when Sufjan would perform the song live on tour, this lyric and fact of life seemed to shock listeners. Yet its solemnity invited them to feel comfort, connection — even joy — wrought from great pain.

The song has recently had a resurgence with listeners — which may speak to a deep national grief and a yearning to heal. As we head into this Fourth of July weekend — a U.S. holiday marked by war (and death) — it seems the exact correct time to be sharing them.
A limited run physical 7" in red will be released in December 2022, which marks the 10-year anniversary of Carrie’s death.

Lyrics:
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 fourth of July?

“Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry?
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?
Or the Fourth of July?
We’re all gonna die.”

Sitting at the bed with the halo at your head
Was it all a disguise, like Junior High
Where everything was fiction, future, and prediction
Now where am I? My fading supply

“Did you get enough love, my little dove
Why do you cry?
And I’m sorry I left, but it was for the best
Though it never felt right
My little Versailles.”

The hospital asked should the body be cast
Before I say goodbye, my star in the sky
Such a funny thought to wrap you up in cloth
Do you find it all right, my dragonfly?

“Shall we look at the moon, my little loon
Why do you cry?
Make the most of your life, while it is rife
While it is light

Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry?
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?
Or the Fourth of July?
We’re all gonna die.”

APD SufjanStevens Silver&Gold CDBox Vertical

Sufjan Stevens 2024-09-05 | Asthmatic Kitty Records announced the repressing of Sufjan Stevens’ Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10 LP box set. This collection compiles five EPs (6LPs) recorded between 2006 and 2010 and is available now for pre-order on vinyl for the first time since its original 2012 release.

Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2024-06-21 | "To Be Alone With You" from Sufjan Stevens' ‘Seven Swans,' originally released on March 16, 2004.

Deluxe 20th Anniversary Editions (physical and digital) are available now, here: asthmatickitty.lnk.to/sevenswansdeluxe

~Video Credits~
Lyric Video by Rena Johnson
Featuring artwork drawn by Marzuki Stevens & animated by Stephen Halker with calligraphy by Laura Normandin

~Lyrics~
I’d swim across Lake Michigan
I’d sell my shoes
I’d give my body to back again
In the rest of room
To be alone with you

You gave your body to the lonely
They took your clothes
You gave up a wife and family
You gave your ghost
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
You went up on a tree
I’ve never met a man who loved me

Sufjan Stevens - The Dress Looks Nice on You (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2024-06-21 | "The Dress Looks Nice on You" from Sufjan Stevens' ‘Seven Swans,' originally released on March 16, 2004.

Deluxe 20th Anniversary Editions (physical and digital) are available now, here: asthmatickitty.lnk.to/sevenswansdeluxe

~Video Credits~
Lyric Video by Rena Johnson
Featuring artwork drawn by Marzuki Stevens & animated by Stephen Halker with calligraphy by Laura Normandin

~Lyrics~
I can see a lot of life in you
I can see a lot of bright in you
And I think the dress looks nice on you
I can see a lot of life in you

I can see a bed and make it too
I can see a fireside turn blue
And I can see the lot of life in
Yes I can see a lot of life in you

When the world looks back
When the face looks after that
I can see a lot of life in you
I can see a lot of life in you

I can see a lot of life in you
I can see a bed and make it too
And I think the dress looks nice on you
Yes I can see a lot of life in you

The Official 2023 Sufjan Yule Log (All of Sufjans Christmas music)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-12-01 | Buy or listen to “Songs for Christmas” and “Silver & Gold” here. You can also check out a collection of Sufjan Christmas themed playlists: xmas.sufjan.com

Directed by Brian Paccione
http://www.brianpaccione.com

Filmed & Edited by Brian Paccione
Art Director - Jess Magee

Special Thanks To Charlie Bee Antiques, Accord NY, Amy Fritch, & Steph Edwards.

Track listing:

Noel: Songs for Christmas, Vol. I
00:00 1. Silent Night
00:43 2. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
04:43 3. We're Goin' to the Country!
07:00 4. Lo! How a Rose E'er Blooming
10:24 5. It's Christmas! Let's Be Glad!
12:19 6. Holy Holy, etc.
12:59 7. Amazing Grace

Hark!: Songs for Christmas, Vol. II
17:06 1. Angels We Have Heard on High
17:55 2. Put The Lights On The Tree
19:43 3. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
24:25 4. I Saw Three Ships
27:00 5. Only at Christmas Time
29:14 6. Once in Royal David's City
32:55 7. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!
33:40 8. What Child Is This Anyway?
40:35 9. Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella

Ding! Dong!: Songs for Christmas, Vol. III
42:05 1. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
43:12 2. Come On! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance!
47:00 3. We Three Kings
50:00 4. O Holy Night
54:04 5. That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!
57:22 6. Ding! Dong!
58:18 7. All the King's Horns
1:01:17 8. The Friendly Beasts

Joy: Songs for Christmas, Vol. IV
1:05:00 1. The Little Drummer Boy
1:08:43 2. Away in a Manger
1:11:38 3. Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!
1:16:18 4. The First Noel
1:17:10 5. Did I Make You Cry on Christmas? (Well, You Deserved It!)
1:20:34 6. The Incarnation
1:22:56 7. Joy to the World

Peace: Songs for Christmas, Vol. V
1:27:16 1. Once in Royal David's City
1:29:18 2. Get Behind Me, Santa!
1:33:07 3. Jingle Bells
1:33:43 4. Christmas in July
1:37:00 5. Lo! How a Rose E'er Blooming
1:38:46 6. Jupiter Winter
1:42:39 7. Sister Winter
1:47:40 8. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
1:48:46 9. Star of Wonder
1:55:55 10. Holy, Holy, Holy
1:59:44 11. The Winter Solstice

Gloria: Silver and Gold, Vol. VI
2:02:48 1. Silent Night
2:05:14 2. Lumberjack Christmas / No One Can Save You from Christmases Past
2:08:36 3. Coventry Carol
2:11:30 4. The Midnight Clear
2:14:19 5. Carol of St. Benjamin the Bearded One
2:17:51 6. Go Nightly Cares
2:19:35 7. Barcarola (You Must Be a Christmas Tree)
2:26:37 8. Auld Lang Syne

I Am Santa's Helper: Silver and Gold, Vol. VII
2:28:11 1. Christ the Lord Is Born
2:29:01 2. Christmas Woman
2:34:34 3. Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light
2:35:43 4. Happy Family Christmas
2:37:07 5. Jingle Bells
2:38:25 6. Mysteries of the Christmas Mist
2:40:35 7. Lift Up Your Heads Ye Mighty Gates
2:41:55 8. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
2:43:11 9. Ah Holy Jesus
2:45:54 10. Behold! The Birth of Man, the Face of Glory
2:47:00 11. Ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling
2:48:52 12. How Shall I Fitly Meet Thee?
2:51:01 13. Mr. Frosty Man
2:52:50 14. Make Haste to See the Baby
2:54:13 15. Ah Holy Jesus (with reed organ)
2:55:42 16. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
2:57:33 17. Morning (Sacred Harp)
3:00:02 18. Idumea (Sacred Harp)
3:03:52 19. Eternal Happiness or Woe
3:05:10 20. Ah Holy Jesus (a capella)
3:06:11 21. I Am Santa's Helper
3:08:02 22. Ma'oz Tzur (Rock of Ages)
3:08:44 23. Even the Earth Will Perish and the Universe Give Way

Christmas Infinity Voyage: Silver and Gold, Vol. VIII
3:10:45 1. Angels We Have Heard on High
3:14:49 2. Do You Hear What I Hear?
3:24:04 3. Christmas in the Room
3:28:26 4. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
3:29:14 5. Good King Wenceslas
3:33:32 6. Alphabet St.
3:35:15 7. Particle Physics
3:36:11 8. Joy to the World
3:41:42 9. The Child with the Star on His Head

Let It Snow: Silver and Gold, Vol. IX
3:57:08 1. I'll Be Home for Christmas
4:00:35 2. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
4:03:09 3. The Sleigh in the Moon
4:04:54 4. Sleigh Ride
4:07:22 5. Ave Maria
4:09:31 6. X-mas Spirit Catcher
4:13:01 7. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
4:15:19 8. A Holly Jolly Christmas
4:17:45 9. Christmas Face

Christmas Unicorn: Silver and Gold, Vol. X
4:18:25 1. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4:22:07 2. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
4:22:46 3. Up on the Housetop
4:27:08 4. Angels We Have Heard on High
4:28:00 5. We Need a Little Christmas
4:30:03 6. Happy Karma Christmas
4:33:38 7. We Three Kings
4:34:30 8. Justice Delivers Its Death
4:37:47 9. Christmas Unicorn

Sufjan Stevens - Genuflecting Ghost (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-10-06 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Stephen Halker
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics:
Give myself as a sacrifice
Genuflecting ghost I kiss the floor
Rise, my love, show me paradise
Nothing seems so simple anymore
Rest assured, words come easy
Insecure, love and please me
Sacred word, bind me, insult
As I praise your name

Now we dance in our catastrophe
Ramparts in the sky
That flash with horror
Let’s take these chances no more amnesty
Nothing else remains as once before
Rest assured, empires will fall
Insecure, restless and small
Sacred word, bind me, insult
As I praise your name

Give myself as a sacrifice
Genuflecting ghost I kiss no more

Credits:
All instruments and lead vocals by Sufjan Stevens.
Additional vocals by adrienne maree brown.

Sufjan Stevens - Will Anybody Ever Love Me? (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-10-06 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Video credits:
Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Rena Johnson
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics:
Chase away my heart and heartache
Run me over, throw me over, cast me out
Find a river running to the west wind
Just above the shoreline
You will see a cloud

Tie me to a tiny wooden raft
Burn my body, point me to the undertow
Push me off into the void at last
Watch me drift and watch me struggle
let me go... ’cause I really wanna know:

Will anybody ever love me?
For good reasons
Without grievance, not for sport
Will anybody ever love me?
In every season
Pledge allegiance to my heart
Pledge allegiance to my burning heart

Hello wildness please forgive me now
For the heartache and the misery I create
Take my suffering as I take my vow
Wash me now, anoint me
With that golden blade

Tie me to the final wooden stake
Burn my body, celebrate the afterglow
Wash away the summer sins I made
Watch me drift and
Watch me struggle, let me go
’cause I really wanna know:

Will anybody ever love me?
For good reasons
Without grievance, not for sport
Will anybody ever love me?
In every season
Pledge allegiance to my heart
Pledge allegiance to my burning heart

Credits:
All instruments and lead vocal by Sufjan Stevens.
Additional vocals by adrienne maree brown, Megan Lui, Hannah Cohen.

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (To Have And To Hold) (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-10-06 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Stephen Halker
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics:
Searching through snow
For the javelin I had not
Meant to throw right at you
For if it had hit its mark
There’d be blood in the place
Where you stood
It’s a terrible thought
To have and hold
It’s a terrible thought
To have and hold

So here we stand in the dark
My eyes travelling to the spot
Where you’d thrown yourself
Over the rocks
For if you’d not been so fast
There’d be blood in the place
Where you stood
It’s a terrible thought
To have and hold
It’s a terrible thought
To have and hold
It’s a terrible thought
To have and hold

Credits:
All instruments and lead vocal by Sufjan Stevens.
Additional vocals by adrienne maree brown, Megan Lui, and Hannah Cohen.
©2023 Sufjan Stevens Music/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens - Theres A World (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-10-06 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Stephen Halker
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics:
There’s a world you’re living in
No one else has your part
All God’s children in the wind
Take it in and blow real hard

Look around it, have you found it?
Walking down the avenue
See what it brings
Could be good things
In the air for me and you

We are leaving, we are gone
Come with us to all alone
Never worry, never moan
We will leave you all alone

In the mountains, in the cities
You can see the righteous dream
Look around you
Has it found you?
Is it what it really seems?

There’s a world you’re living in
No one else has your part
All God’s children in the wind
Take it in and blow real hard

Credits:
All instruments and lead vocal by Sufjan Stevens.
Additional vocals by Megan Lui and Hannah Cohen.
"There’s a World“ by Neil Young ©1972 Silver Fiddle Music, Hipgnosis Side A

Sufjan Stevens - My Red Little Fox (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-10-06 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Video credits:
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens
Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Stephen Halker
Additional animation: Rena Johnson

Lyrics:
I drink ’til it’s lost
Drinking words within
That spin down Pentecost
Kiss me with the fire of gods
Just say what you want
Say it out within
Without that funny little cough
Simple minded, simple talk

Don’t start with your camouflage
Spurning from within
Jump in, my red little fox
Rivers running through it all
So kiss me as I am lost
Kiss me from within
Jump in, my red little fox
Yellow paper folded off

My love, my queen, my broken
Dreams come save me
Kiss me like the wind
Now I sing it won’t you
Kiss me from within
Now I sing it won’t you
Kiss me like the wind that flows within your veins

Let’s not be for want
Wanting is a sin
I don’t want anything at all
Yellow fever folded off
Let’s drink ’til it’s Pentecost
Drink unto the wind
Jump in, my red little fox
Kiss me with the fire of gods
Let’s scream ’til it’s all forgot
Screaming words within
That spin without any cost
Kiss me with the fire of gods

My love, my queen, my spoken
Dreams come save me
Kiss me like the wind
Now I sing it won’t you
Kiss me from within
Now I sing it won’t you
Kiss me like the wind that flows within your veins

Credits:
All instruments and lead vocal by Sufjan Stevens.
Additional vocals by adrienne maree brown, Megan Lui, and Hannah Cohen.
©2023 Sufjan Stevens Music/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Official Album Stream)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-10-06 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

00:00 Goodbye Evergreen
03:36 A Running Start
07:57 Will Anybody Ever Love Me?
12:06 Everything That Rises
17:05 Genuflecting Ghost
20:38 My Little Red Fox
24:21 So You Are Tired
29:11 Javelin (To Have And To Hold)
31:04 Shit Talk
39:35 There's A World

Video credits:
"A Running Start," "Will Anybody Ever Love Me?" & "So You Are Tired"
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens
Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Rena Johnson

"Goodbye Evergreen," "Everything That Rises," "Genuflecting Ghost," "My Little Red Fox," "Javelin (To Have And To Hold)," "Shit Talk," & "There's A World"
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens
Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Stephen Halker
Additional animation: Rena Johnson

Credits:
All songs by Sufjan Stevens
©2023 Sufjan Stevens Music/ASCAP
Except “There’s a World“ by Neil Young ©1972 Silver Fiddle Music, Hipgnosis Side A

Sufjan Stevens: performs everything except—

adrienne maree brown:
additional vocals on "Will Anybody Ever Love Me?" "Everything That Rises" "Genuflecting Ghost" "My Red Little Fox" "So You Are Tired" and "Javelin (To Have And To Hold)"

Nedelle Torrisi: additional
vocals on "A Running Start"

Pauline Delassus:
additional vocals on "Shit Talk"

Bryce Dessner: additional
acoustic and electric guitars on "Shit Talk"

Megan Lui and Hannah Cohen:
additional vocals on "Goodbye Evergreen" "A Running Start" "Will Anybody Ever Love Me?" "Everything That Rises" "My Red Little Fox" "So You Are Tired" "Javelin (To Have And To Hold)" "Shit Talk" and "There's A World"

This album was recorded, engineered, arranged, produced and mixed by Sufjan Stevens
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
Vinyl mastering by Josh Bonati
All original artwork, photography, typography, layout and design by Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens - Shit Talk (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-10-06 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Stephen Halker
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics:
No more fighting
No more talking shit
Do as I say not as I give up
Not as I’ve failed to live
In the future there will be
A terrible cost
For all that we’ve left undone
Deliver me from everything
I’ve put off
And all that we’ve lost
I will always love you
But I cannot live with you

No more fighting
I’ve nothing left to give
I’ve nothing but atrophy
Did I cross you?
Did I fail to believe
In positive thoughts?
Our romantic second chance is dead
I buried it with the hatchet
Quit your antics
Put them at the foot of the bed
And set it on fire
I will always love you
But I cannot look at you

Hold me closely
Hold me tightly lest I fall....
Hold me closely
Hold me tightly lest I fall....
No, I don’t wanna fight at all

Credits:
All instruments and lead vocal by Sufjan Stevens.
Additional vocals by Pauline Delassus.
Additional acoustic and electric guitars by Bryce Dessner.

Sufjan Stevens - Everything That Rises (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-10-06 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Video credits:
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens
Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Stephen Halker
Additional animation: Rena Johnson

Lyrics:
Can you lift me up to a higher place?
Forget everything that was before
Turn your face around
Like the salted sphere
Turn yourself around
To see what once was there

Everything that rises must converge
Everything that rises in a word
Everything that rises must converge
Everything that rises...

Jesus lift me up to a higher plane
Can you come around before I go insane?
Cast me not in hell
Where the demons rage
Turn yourself around
To see what I can save

Everything that rises must converge
Everything that rises in a word
Everything that rises must converge
Everything that rises....

Turn yourself away
From the wickedness, I said
Evil comes to play
In the image of the dead

Everything rises, must converge
Everything rises in a word
Everything rises, must converge
Everything rises....

Credits:
All instruments and lead vocal by Sufjan Stevens.
Additional vocals by adrienne maree brown, Megan Lui, and Hannah Cohen.

Sufjan Stevens - Goodbye Evergreen (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens - A Running Start (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-10-03 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Rena Johnson
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics:
If I imagine myself peaceful
On the fire escape
Head first, my hands inside my
T-shirt, as we run away
So now we have a running start
My body moves in mystic ways
I cross my arms to shield my heart
As everything turns into waves

I see the light upon the lake
The silver moon, the water snake
A pair of eyes, a gentle breeze
Forgotten tales, a wild beast
I know, I know the time has come
To ask you for a kiss
Don’t go, my lovely pantomime
Receive of me my only wish

If I align myself with Pisces
In a funny way
Can you, my lover, kiss my bracelet
And my shoulder blades
We’ve always had a running start
I jump between the trampolines
You throw your arms around my heart
As if to say you’re all I need

The winter pines, the lonely drake
The light beneath the frozen lake
A pair of eyes, a gentle breeze
Forgotten tales, a wild beast
I know, I know the time has come
To ask you for a kiss
Don’t go, my lovely pantomime
Receive of me my only wish

All instruments and lead vocal by Sufjan Stevens.
Additional vocals by Nedelle Torrisi, Megan Lui, and Hannah Cohen.

Sufjan Stevens - Will Anybody Ever Love Me? (Official Music Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-09-13 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Stephen Halker
Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics:
Chase away my heart and heartache
Run me over, throw me over, cast me out
Find a river running to the west wind
Just above the shoreline
You will see a cloud

Tie me to a tiny wooden raft
Burn my body, point me to the undertow
Push me off into the void at last
Watch me drift and watch me struggle
let me go... ’cause I really wanna know:

Will anybody ever love me?
For good reasons
Without grievance, not for sport
Will anybody ever love me?
In every season
Pledge allegiance to my heart
Pledge allegiance to my burning heart

Hello wildness please forgive me now
For the heartache and the misery I create
Take my suffering as I take my vow
Wash me now, anoint me
With that golden blade

Tie me to the final wooden stake
Burn my body, celebrate the afterglow
Wash away the summer sins I made
Watch me drift and
Watch me struggle, let me go
’cause I really wanna know:

Will anybody ever love me?
For good reasons
Without grievance, not for sport
Will anybody ever love me?
In every season
Pledge allegiance to my heart
Pledge allegiance to my burning heart

Credits:
Written by Sufjan Stevens
Background vocals: adrienne maree brown, Megan Lui, Hannah Cohen
Everything else by Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens - So You Are Tired (Official Lyric Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2023-08-14 | Listen/Buy ‘Javelin’ here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
‘Javelin’ by Sufjan Stevens, released on CD, LP & Digital October 6, 2023

Featuring artwork by Sufjan Stevens
Director, Producer, Animator, & Editor: Rena Johnson

Lyrics:
So you are tired of us
So rest your head
Turning back fourteen years
Of what I did and said

So you are breathing disaster
I did what I was told
But I was a man born invisible
Was it something I said
Or some kind of joke?

So you are tired as the sun
Are you with or without a friend?
Bring me back everything
Caught in your shield
Let everything else descend

So you are seething with laughter
Was it really all just a joke?
I was a man indivisible
When everything else was broke

So you are tired of even my kiss
So go back to your den
Throwing out everything
Left in your field
When there was nothing
Left to defend

So you are dreaming of after
Was it really all just for fun?
I was the man still in love with you
When I already knew it was done

So you are tired of me
So rest your head
Turning back all that
We had in our life
While I return to death

Credits:
All instruments and lead vocal by Sufjan Stevens.
Additional vocals by adrienne maree brown, Hannah Cohen, Megan Lui.
©2023 Sufjan Stevens Music/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick - Revanche [Visualization]

Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick - Euphoros [Visualization]

Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick - Reflexion [Visualization]

Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick - And I Shall Come To You . . . [Visualization]

Sufjan Stevens 2023-05-19 | Full title: And I Shall Come To You Like A Stormtrooper In Drag Serving Imperial Realness
Stream / Buy CD/LP: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/Reflections

Credits:
Artwork by Jessica Slaven
Animated and produced by Stephen Halker
Composed by Sufjan Stevens
Performed by Timo Andres & Conor Hanick

Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick - Mnemosyne [Visualization]

Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick - Rodinia [Visualization]

Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick - Reflections [Official Full Album Stream]

Sufjan Stevens 2023-05-19 | Stream / Buy CD/LP: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/Reflections

Credits:
Artwork by Jessica Slaven
Animated and produced by Stephen Halker
Composed by Sufjan Stevens
Performed by Timo Andres & Conor Hanick

00:00 Ekstasis
03:04 Revanche
08:24 Euphoros
11:39 Mnemosyne
15:07 Rodinia
20:58 Reflexion
23:56 And I Shall Come To You Like A Stormtrooper In Drag Serving Imperial Realness

Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick - Ekstasis [Visualization]

Sufjan Stevens 2023-04-18 | Stream / Buy CD/LP: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/Reflections

Credits:
Artwork by Jessica Slaven
Animated and produced by Stephen Halker
Composed by Sufjan Stevens
Performed by Timo Andres & Conor Hanick

Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick - Ekstasis [Live Performance Video]

Sufjan Stevens 2023-04-18 | Stream / Buy CD/LP: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/Reflections

Credits:
Composed by Sufjan Stevens
Performed by Timo Andres & Conor Hanick
Directed by Brian Paccione (brianpaccione.com)
Produced by Jess Magee
Cinematography by Ben Rutkowski
Camera Operators - Jordan Tetewsky, Ben Rutkowski, Brian Paccione
Edited by Brian Paccione
Engineering & Mixing by Sam Skinner
Assistant Engineering by Aaron Ross
Colorist - Jordan Tetewsky
Filmed & Recorded Live at Yamaha Artist Services New York, March 2023 @yamahaglobal

Sufjan Stevens, Chicago (Demo) [Official Audio - as seen on Hulus The Bear]

Sufjan Stevens 2022-08-23 | Listen/stream here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/chicago-demo

Lyrics:
I fell in love again
All things go, all things go
Drove to Chicago
All things know, all things know

We sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind

I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind

I drove to New York
In a van, with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind

I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind

You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go

If I was crying
In the van, with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes

You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go

Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July (April Base Version) [Official Music Video]

Sufjan Stevens 2022-07-04 | Listen here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/fourthofjuly
Listen to the Dumbo version here: youtu.be/hdhOGOBg1G4
Listen to the original here: youtu.be/JTeKpWp8Psw

Credits:
Filmed by Michael O'Neal and Adam Prieto

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***

Today, July 1, on his birthday, Sufjan Stevens is releasing two alternate versions of his song, “Fourth of July” via Asthmatic Kitty Records.

The new versions are “Fourth of July (April Base Version)”, recorded in Eau Claire, WI at Justin Vernon’s April Base studio, and “Fourth of July (DUMBO Version)”, recorded in Sufjan’s old studio in Brooklyn, NY.

The original version of “Fourth of July” appeared on Sufjan’s album, Carrie & Lowell — a deeply personal album written to process his sorrow after the death of his mother, Carrie. Sufjan would work and rework, and record and re-record, trying to manage the grief. The refrain of the song, “We’re all gonna die,” became an anchor in each version he recorded. At the time of its release and when Sufjan would perform the song live on tour, this lyric and fact of life seemed to shock listeners. Yet its solemnity invited them to feel comfort, connection — even joy — wrought from great pain.

The song has recently had a resurgence with listeners — which may speak to a deep national grief and a yearning to heal. As we head into this Fourth of July weekend — a U.S. holiday marked by war (and death) — it seems the exact correct time to be sharing them.

A limited run physical 7" in red will be released in December 2022, which marks the 10-year anniversary of Carrie’s death.

***

Lyrics:
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 fourth of July?

“Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry?
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?
Or the Fourth of July?
We’re all gonna die.”

Sitting at the bed with the halo at your head
Was it all a disguise, like Junior High
Where everything was fiction, future, and prediction
Now where am I? My fading supply

“Did you get enough love, my little dove
Why do you cry?
And I’m sorry I left, but it was for the best
Though it never felt right
My little Versailles.”

The hospital asked should the body be cast
Before I say goodbye, my star in the sky
Such a funny thought to wrap you up in cloth
Do you find it all right, my dragonfly?

“Shall we look at the moon, my little loon
Why do you cry?
Make the most of your life, while it is rife
While it is light

Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry?
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?
Or the Fourth of July?
We’re all gonna die.”

Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July (Dumbo Version)

Sufjan Stevens 2022-07-01 | Listen here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/fourthofjuly
Listen to the April Base version here: youtu.be/rO7vi9GexrQ
Listen to the original here: youtu.be/JTeKpWp8Psw

Today, July 1, on his birthday, Sufjan Stevens is releasing two alternate versions of his song, “Fourth of July” via Asthmatic Kitty Records.

The new versions are “Fourth of July (April Base Version)”, recorded in Eau Claire, WI at Justin Vernon’s April Base studio, and “Fourth of July (DUMBO Version)”, recorded in Sufjan’s old studio in Brooklyn, NY.

The original version of “Fourth of July” appeared on Sufjan’s album, Carrie & Lowell — a deeply personal album written to process his sorrow after the death of his mother, Carrie. Sufjan would work and rework, and record and re-record, trying to manage the grief. The refrain of the song, “We’re all gonna die,” became an anchor in each version he recorded. At the time of its release and when Sufjan would perform the song live on tour, this lyric and fact of life seemed to shock listeners. Yet its solemnity invited them to feel comfort, connection — even joy — wrought from great pain.

The song has recently had a resurgence with listeners — which may speak to a deep national grief and a yearning to heal. As we head into this Fourth of July weekend — a U.S. holiday marked by war (and death) — it seems the exact correct time to be sharing them.
A limited run physical 7" in red will be released in December 2022, which marks the 10-year anniversary of Carrie’s death.

Lyrics:
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 fourth of July?

“Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry?
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?
Or the Fourth of July?
We’re all gonna die.”

Sitting at the bed with the halo at your head
Was it all a disguise, like Junior High
Where everything was fiction, future, and prediction
Now where am I? My fading supply

“Did you get enough love, my little dove
Why do you cry?
And I’m sorry I left, but it was for the best
Though it never felt right
My little Versailles.”

The hospital asked should the body be cast
Before I say goodbye, my star in the sky
Such a funny thought to wrap you up in cloth
Do you find it all right, my dragonfly?

“Shall we look at the moon, my little loon
Why do you cry?
Make the most of your life, while it is rife
While it is light

Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry?
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?
Or the Fourth of July?
We’re all gonna die.”

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Beginner’s Mind (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-10-07 | Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Lyrics:
Bodhi Tree grows in the light
Shotgun shell, cannon fire
Baby, we’ve got nothing to loose
An ex-president, L.A. sure has been changing
Living off the last of my loot

Hedonists in 909, trailer park columbine
Tina taken by FBIs
Uncut kilograms, two dead in the ambulance
Life was just a new way to die

Will you let yourself unwind
Put your soul on the line
Striving for a beginner’s mind
My heart wasn’t there
Couldn’t be bothered to care
Now we’re drowning in the moonlight

Oh my love, I can explain
I was only a child in search of my own name
A rider of the storm
A mystic self-proclaimed
The glider of the air
A creature in its cage
Now won’t you send me home
To my point break

Credits:
MUSIC BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE AND SUFJAN STEVENS
LYRICS BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE
©2021 ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE MUSIC/BMI
©2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Pillar of Souls (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-26 | Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Lyrics:
I slept for five days
In stillness I laid full of demonic visions
My still-life remains like the path of a pigeon
That flew into flames from the rivals of hell

Raised from the dead, to save my soul
J.P Monroe tied up his ghost
Life was just like a camera show
Captured in song, my life gives blood

It’s all flesh in my mind
I can’t wait to inscribe
All the names that I’ve read in the blood of your knife
Heaven and hell await all who give of their life
I’ve been waiting this time

Now covered in chains
My skin is ablated with bleeding incision
And still, life remains, my cadaver imprisoned
As you shall retain me and raise me from hell

Cenobite seized within the throes
To be released from the pillar of souls
Dragged from the dark, my love extolled
Bring me the beast, my life gives blood

It’s all flesh in my mind
I can’t wait to describe
All the dead that I’ve raised with the blood of your knife
Heaven help me await all who give of their life
Drink the blood of my wine

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE AND SUFJAN STEVENS
©2021 ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE MUSIC/BMI
©2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Lady Macbeth In Chains (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-26 | Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Lyrics:
Open on Broadway, you’re a star
Just an opportunist at heart
Evil hid in glitz and glamour
Drunk like a potion harvester

All about Eve
Cat up a tree
Margo Channing, Listen to me
Don’t believe what she says
When she sleeps in your head

Now the two allegories of pity and terror
One for the money, for trial and error
Telling the story anointing its pleasure
Lady MacBeth in chains

Once in a lifetime you’re a star
A circus of light falling apart
Just as the flame is on the reservoir
The darkness arises so much brighter

All about Eve
Queen Tragedy
All that you need is a throne to receive
Now go sleep in the bed
That you made while she bled from her open wounds

Two categories tell two different stories
One for ambition, and one full of glory
Backstabbing feeds on its own inventory
Lady MacBeth in chains
Lady MacBeth in chains

Credits:
MUSIC BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE
LYRICS BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE AND SUFJAN STEVENS
©2021 ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE MUSIC/BMI
©2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Murder And Crime (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-26 | Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Lyrics:
Evidence known so long
Oh god, I’m lost in my wrongs
Everything froze like stone
Saw your heart couldn’t take much more

My boy, I don’t know why this life
Is so cruel and unkind but it weighs on my heart
All joys were taken from your eyes
As the law would abide in murder and crime
Hard lines as the fossil defines
Its own shadow in lime and reveals how it dies

If anything goes, then everything’s flawed
Oh my love, what the violence has caused
Malevolence flowed from beyond
And my heart cannot take much more

Oh joy I’m afraid of the light
As the jewel of my mind begins to fall apart
Do not destroy what has taken its time
As the Lord would abide in murder and crime

Oh my love, I don’t know why this life
Is so cruel and unkind but it weighs on my heart
Fading lines as the fossil denies
Its own shadow in time to conceal how it died

Evidence known, march on
Oh god, I’m lost in the antiphon
Where does everything go when everything’s gone?
For my heart cannot break much more

Credits:
MUSIC BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE
LYRICS BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE AND SUFJAN STEVENS
©2021 ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE MUSIC/BMI
©2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - (This Is) The Thing (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-26 | Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Lyrics:
This is the thing about people
You never really know what’s inside
Somewhere in the soul there’s a secret
Hysteria grows where it was invited

This is the thing about fiction
How everything feeds on its paranoia
Wrapping it all up in tradition
Now fill up the cup, go and drink your poison

My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence
So give it all up, give it distance, live it up for the path of resistance

This is the thing about confusion
You never really know what you’ll find
Tell me what it means to be human
The freedom you seek is to free your mind

My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence
So give it all up, give it distance, live it up for the path of resistance

This is the thing about evil
You never really know where it’s hiding
Find your phantom in the cathedral
The more you search for it, the less you’ll find

My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence
So give it all up, give it distance, live it up for the path of resistance

Credits:
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY SUFJAN STEVENS
©2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - It’s Your Own Body And Mind (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-26 | Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Lyrics:
Shall we all talk paternal?
Shall we all talk of the sun?
Everything runs in circles
Everything comes undone

One hand holds the mantel
The other one holds the key
Your body is a sanctuary
And your body is about to be free

She’s gotta have it
She’s got a dream
And she’ll make it a habit
Of doing her own thing
She’s doing her own thing

Doesn’t it seem quite obvious
Doesn’t it seem unwise
Nothing else can be taken from you
It’s your own body and mind

One hand holds the candle
The other one holds the flame
Infinite with its guiding light
Illuminating all things the same

Credits:
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY SUFJAN STEVENS
©2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Lost In The World (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-26 | Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Lyrics:
A voice of air’s mellifluence
Draconian will, superstition
Now go arise, awake your dead
An angel fell, one heaven sent
The Beaufort scale measured the gales
I saw the world between two sails
The water climbed over the sky
As miracles demystify

All that was lost in the world
Yeah I’ve been lost in the world

How do we all make it through?
Caught in thought, daydreaming like I do
Just like you, when you told me all your dreams would come true
Well I hope you’re right, and they always do

An optical indifference
Parallel realms of existence
Cosmologies apocalypse
Your premonition’s persistence

For all that was lost in the world
Yeah I’ve been lost in the world

How will we all make it through?
Caught in thoughts, daydreaming like I do
Just like you, when you told me all your dreams would come true
Well I hope you’re right, and they always do

Credits:
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE
©2021 ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE MUSIC/BMI

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginners Mind (Official Full Album Stream)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-24 | Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Track listing:
00:00 Reach Out
03:45 Lady Macbeth In Chains
07:29 Back To Oz
11:43 The Pillar Of Souls
14:55 You Give Death A Bad Name
19:04 Beginner’s Mind
21:22 Olympus
24:31 Murder And Crime
28:03 (This Is) The Thing
30:54 It’s Your Own Body And Mind
33:23 Lost In The World
36:35 Fictional California
39:28 Cimmerian Shade
43:49 Lacrimae

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Lacrimae (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-24 | Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Lyrics:
I called a name
Over the ocean
Lacrimal tears
Fears of devotion

All the dreams I vowed to make come true
And the life I long to take I loose
Lord, why must this life be so cruel
When there ain’t much you can do

I saw your eyes burn in the moonlight
All I ask is a chance in this lifetime

All the dreams I vowed to make come true
And the life I long to take I loose
Lord, why must this life be so cruel
And shadowed in the gloom

Credits:
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE
©2021 ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE MUSIC/BMI

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - You Give Death A Bad Name (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-08 | Pre-order "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind
"A Beginner's Mind" by Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine available on CD, LP, Cassette, & Digital September 24, 2021

Lyrics:
Shot to the skull or a strike to the brain
As you withdraw, you give death a bad name
Can you be stopped, or can evil be slain?
Is there something to be lost to surrender the pain?

You’re just a shade of something betrayed
Watch as you fade into the reservoir
Can you exist, shade of the oculist
No consciousness, less than a metaphor

What was once dead is now coming for you
The television said it’s the right thing to do

Give me a name more than a flame
Can it contain more than a metaphor?
Show me your face give it some breathing space
Feel my embrace, empty the reservoir

Was it for profit or was it for gain
You gave it your all; you gave life a bad name

Sentries trembling voices assembling
Nothing resembling what it had been before
Contamination death to America
Reanimation what are you waiting for

Shot to the skull or a strike to the brain
The cadaver on the cross; you give love a bad name
Can you explain all our divided pain
What still remains after the rigor mortise
Poured gasoline ghost in a dead machine
God save the queen, lessons and metaphors

Hung from a tree, edge of the canopy
All this debris, signals and semaphores
Round them all up, drink from the holy cup
Battered in blood, what are you waiting for?

Jump from the fire into the frying pan
Voice of the choir now you are born again
Gathered in song calling all next of kin
Can do no wrong, perfect American

Follow your dreams into the black and white
Anthropocene, live it up, give a fight
Shot to the heart, God bless America
Failed from the start, what are you waiting for?

Credits:
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE AND SUFJAN STEVENS
©2021 ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE MUSIC/BMI
©2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Cimmerian Shade (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-09-08 | Pre-order "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind
"A Beginner's Mind" by Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine available on CD, LP, Cassette, & Digital September 24, 2021

Lyrics:
The lamb cries ’til ears ring
I cannot love from my prison of shame
In Cimmerian Shade
I’ll keep her safe in the well, tailor made

I just want you to love me
I just wanted to know myself
Fix it all, Jonathan Demme
Beauty resides where your spirit dwells

My Starling flies into the rainbow
Lost in the mist, Chrysalis, kill your idols
Safe in my autogynophilia
One black witch moth, now she’s lost in the meadow

I just want you to love me
I just wanted to change myself
Fix it all, Jonathan Demme
Beauty resides where your spirit dwells

Save me from everything I ask for
Soil from the sod, Lamb of God, rest in peace
I’m still just running from the answer
Safe in the cell, kiss and tell, my Clarise

I just want you to know me
I just wanted to love myself
Fix it all, Jonathan Demme
Beauty resides where your spirit dwells

Credits:
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE AND SUFJAN STEVENS
©2021 ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE MUSIC/BMI
©2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Olympus (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-07-07 | Pre-order "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind
"A Beginner's Mind" by Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine available on CD, LP, Cassette, & Digital September 24, 2021

Lyrics:
Oh, lift up your head, boy
Don’t play pretend dead on the floor
Now Harryhausen conceived from a cauldron
Wielding Olympus with eyes on the shore

There’s nothing
There’s nothing

Oh, show me the flow of my life
Bound by Acrisius bronzed in the skylight
Seeking the oracle’s eyes in the night with a sigh
Seriphos greets us with moments of silence

There’s nothing
There’s nothing
There’s nothing
There’s nothing

Who will arrange my great escape?
Hopelessly I have been torn from this outrage
Tossing and turning uneasy it cost me the cross
Am I at rest or resigned in my chaos?

There’s nothing
There’s nothing
There’s nothing
There’s nothing

There’s something
It’s the light on your hand
There’s something
It’s the touch of my wristband
There’s one thing
It’s the weight of our wish
There’s one thing
It’s our very first kiss

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Reach Out (Official Music Video)

Sufjan Stevens 2021-07-07 | Order "A Beginner's Mind" here: sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind
"A Beginner's Mind" by Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine available on CD, LP, Cassette, & Digital September 24, 2021

Starring: Joku and Charlie (in order of appearance)
Director: Jessica Calleiro
Color: Gabriel Sanchez
Voice Actors: Madeleine Monshausen & Stefan Buergermeister
Special thanks to Marisa Tremblay
Footage by Angelo De Augustine and Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics:
I have a memory
Of a time and place where history resigned
Now my apology
All the light came in to fulminate my mind

Reach out, reach out
To all the ones who came before you
Ponder what is right
You and I, in defiance
Speak out, speak out
The conversation may afford you
Wisdom of the wise
You and I, in defiance

And I come from conscience where there is no conjugation
I would rather be a flower than the ocean
And I held myself as something of an innovation
I would rather be devoured than be broken

All my life I tried so hard
To separate myself from all
That is and was and will be torn apart
You were running unafraid
I know you, but I’ve changed my way
You know I take it all to heart

Home is where you’ve called my name
I’ve gone as far as the eye can blame
You said love may have lost its way

Now my life has been erased
And what I gave, I gave for you
And for myself and for the holy name
You were running unashamed
And yours is mine and all remains
As nothing ever stays the same

Reach out, reach out to all the ones who came before
Reach out, reach out to all the ones who came before
Reach out, reach out and all at once the pain restores you
Reach out, reach out and all at once the pain restores you
All at once the pain restores you

I have a memory of a time and place where history resigned
Now in my reverie
For the guiding light that opened up my mind

Sufjan Stevens - Incantation VII - Convocations [Official Audio and Visual]

Sufjan Stevens 2021-05-06 | From Incantations, Volume 5 of Convocations
Listen/buy here: sufjanstevens.ffm.to/convocations

Visual Artist: Melissa Fuentes @melissazrttt instagram.com/melissazrttt
Editor: Otto Sánchez instagram.com/8_catorce

Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic/ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calm—that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through isolation, uncertainty, and loss. Its five sonic cycles (Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations) replicate different stages of mourning, healing and catharsis, working both to soothe our unease while savoring a renewed sense of awe and wonder for being alive in these unprecedented times.

Stevens initiated Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension. It is, then, ultimately an album about death, and an album that reflects a year in which we have all lost so much. That said, this is not a personal record, but a universal one. Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times—the pain and separation, the anxiety, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime. It is, then, right on time, as we begin to process our grief and try to carry on with it.

©2021 AKR P.O. BOX 1282 LANDER, WY 82520 USA
ALL MUSIC PERFORMED, RECORDED, MIXED AND PRODUCED BY SUFJAN STEVENS
© 2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens - Incantations - Convocations [Official Audio and Visual]

Sufjan Stevens 2021-05-06 | From Convocations / Listen/buy here: sufjanstevens.ffm.to/convocations

Visual Artist: Melissa Fuentes melissazrttt instagram.com/melissazrttt
Editor: Otto Sánchez instagram.com/8_catorce

Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic/ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calm—that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through isolation, uncertainty, and loss. Its five sonic cycles (Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations) replicate different stages of mourning, healing and catharsis, working both to soothe our unease while savoring a renewed sense of awe and wonder for being alive in these unprecedented times.

Stevens initiated Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension. It is, then, ultimately an album about death, and an album that reflects a year in which we have all lost so much. That said, this is not a personal record, but a universal one. Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times—the pain and separation, the anxiety, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime. It is, then, right on time, as we begin to process our grief and try to carry on with it.

©2021 AKR P.O. BOX 1282 LANDER, WY 82520 USA
ALL MUSIC PERFORMED, RECORDED, MIXED AND PRODUCED BY SUFJAN STEVENS
© 2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens - Incantation III - Convocations [Official Audio and Visual]

Sufjan Stevens - Convocations [Official Full Project Audio and Visual]

Sufjan Stevens 2021-05-06 | 00:00:00 Meditations
00:27:03 Lamentations
00:58:33 Revelations
01:32:26 Celebrations
02:07:08 Incantations

Listen/buy here: sufjanstevens.ffm.to/convocations

Visual Artist: Melissa Fuentes @melissazrttt instagram.com/melissazrttt
Editor: Otto Sánchez instagram.com/8_catorce

Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic/ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calm—that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through isolation, uncertainty, and loss. Its five sonic cycles (Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations) replicate different stages of mourning, healing and catharsis, working both to soothe our unease while savoring a renewed sense of awe and wonder for being alive in these unprecedented times.

Stevens initiated Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension. It is, then, ultimately an album about death, and an album that reflects a year in which we have all lost so much. That said, this is not a personal record, but a universal one. Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times—the pain and separation, the anxiety, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime. It is, then, right on time, as we begin to process our grief and try to carry on with it.

©2021 AKR P.O. BOX 1282 LANDER, WY 82520 USA
ALL MUSIC PERFORMED, RECORDED, MIXED AND PRODUCED BY SUFJAN STEVENS
© 2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP

Sufjan Stevens - Incantation I - Convocations [Official Audio and Visual]

Sufjan Stevens - Incantation VI - Convocations [Official Audio and Visual]

Sufjan Stevens - Incantation V - Convocations [Official Audio and Visual]

Sufjan Stevens - Incantation IV - Convocations [Official Audio and Visual]