Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens
“If you've ever lost anyone you loved (and who hasn't?), you'll relate to this. I've been slowly digesting this album over the past few weeks, and at times it feels so personal and so raw, but yet never crosses over the line into mawkish. Hard to pick one song, but this one captures beautifully the imagined conversation between son and dying mother. The conversation that he never got to have... Tell the people in your lives that you love them, as they won't be here forever. As a friend of mine says "it ends badly!", so live to make that ending worthwhile.”
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If you've ever lost anyone you loved (and who hasn't?), you'll relate to this. I've been slowly digesting this album over the past few weeks, and at times it feels so personal and so raw, but yet never crosses over the line into mawkish. Hard to pick one song, but this one captures beautifully the imagined conversation between son and dying mother. The conversation that he never got to have... Tell the people in your lives that you love them, as they won't be here forever. As a friend of mine says "it ends badly!", so live to make that ending worthwhile.
"Make the most of your life, while it is rife, while it is light." Q1 of 2015 has had more good music in it already than I can remember from practically the whole of 2014, and this might be the best song of its best album. <3
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What could I have said to raise you from the dead? Oh could I be the sky on the Fourth of July?
Somehow, it isn't twee.
"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?"
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