Justice Delivers Its Death by Sufjan Stevens
“Silver & gold. They avail nothing against the fire.”
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Silver & gold. They avail nothing against the fire.
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"The penultimate song of Silver & Gold has Stevens taking a 180-degree turn on Johnny Marks' original song, and criticizing its ideas of silver and gold being inherently pleasurable. This is the perfect soundtrack for YouTube videos of Black Friday shoppers fighting discounted waffle irons. (Thankfully, someone already had this idea.) It's not a happy song by any means, but it does bring a metaphorical and honest light to the unfavorable parts of the holiday season: avarice over selflessness, the yuletide existential crisis that Charlie Brown suffered in December 1965." From The Verge - Sufjan Stevens' 100 Christmas songs ranked from worst to best http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/9/7333319/sufjan-stevens-christmas-songs-ranked
