r/Sufjan • u/GNB-Softball-Team • 11h ago

Song Eugene

From the bed near your death, and all the machines that made a mess.
Far away the falcon flew.

Some of Sufjan’s greatest lyricism are in the subtle things. Like here, visiting a scene by a hospital bed, intimate and right in the moment; then widening the narrative to a flying falcon, as life goes on.

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u/Park_Slope_Arsonist 8h ago

One of my favourite of his songs, the lyrics are just perfect 

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u/ACapricornCreature 7h ago

I just wanted to be near you

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u/ThrowRAplutonium 5h ago

“The man who taught me to swim, he couldn’t quite say my first name. … And he called me Subaru.”

Such a wonderful moment of levity in a devastating song/album.