Biografía:
Sufjan Stevens (Detroit, 1975) es, sin lugar a dudas, el artista más reconocido de la corriente neo-folk de los Estados Unidos.
Sus canciones recogen un universo fantástico y mítico, donde dragones, brujas, el cielo y el infierno dan forma a sus letras.
Stevens comenzó su carrera musical en una banda folk llamada Marzuki, originaria de Holland, Michigan. A su vez, formaba (y forma parte) de Danielson Famile, tocando varios instrumentos. Mientras aun estudiaba en la universidad
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Otras canciones:
- All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands
- Casimir Pulaski Day
- Chicago
- Chicago Acoustic
- Death With Dignity
- Death With Dignity 2
- Drawn To The Blood
- Eugene
- Flint (for The Unemployed And Underpaid)
- For The Widows In Paradise For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti
- Fourth Of July
- Futile Devices
- Futile Devices ( Fingerpicking)
- God 'll Never Let You Down
- Jacksonville
- John Wayne Gacy Jr.
- John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
- Mistress Witch From Mcclure Or The Mind That Knows Itself
- Mystery Of Love
- No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross
- Redford (for Yiayia And Papou)
- Romulus
- Should Have Known Better
- Sister Winter
- The Dress Looks Nice On You
- The Only Thing
- The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
- To Be Alone With You
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- A Little Lost
- A Sun Came
- All Delighted People
- All For Myself
- All Of Me Wants All Of You
- All The Kings Horns
- Arnika
- Bad Communication
- Barcarola You Must Be A Christmas Tree
- Blue Bucket Of Gold
- Carrie Lowell
- Christmas In July
- Christmas In The Room
- Christmas Unicorn
- City Of Roses
- Come On Lets Boogey To The Elf Dance
- Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
- Concerning The Ufo Sighting Near Highland Illinois
- Decatur Or Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother
- Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day
- Ding
- Djohariah
- Dumb I Sound
- Enchanting Ghost
- Eugene Version 2
- Exploding Whale
- Flint For The Unemployed And Underpaid
- From The Mouth Of Gabriel
- Get Behind Me Santa
- Get Real Get Right
- Heirloom
- Hey Guys Its Christmas Time
- Holy Holy Holy
- I Am Santas Helper
- I Saw Three Ships
- I Walked
- I Want To Be Well
- Illinois
- Impossible Soul
- Its Christmas Lets Be Glad
- Jason
- John My Beloved
- John Wayne Gacy Jr
- Joy To The World
- Jupiter
- Jupiter Winter
- Lo How A Rose Eer Blooming
- Lonely Man Of Winter
- Lord God Bird
- Lumberjack Christmas No One Can Save You From Christmases Past
- Mars
- Mercury
- Mr Frosty Man
- Neptune
- No Mans Land
- O Come O Come Emmanuel
- Oh God Where Are You Now In Pickeral Lake Pigeon Marquette Mackinaw
- Once In Royal Davids City
- Only At Christmas Time
- Pittsfield
- Pleasure Principle
- Pluto
- Put The Lights On The Tree
- Redford For Yia
- Saturn
- Seven Swans
- Silver Gold
- Size Too Small
- Sleeping Bear Sault Ste Marie
- Springfield Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair
- Star Of Wonder
- That Was The Worst Christmas Ever
- The Avalanche
- The Child With The Star On His Head
- The Greatest Gift
- The Hidden River Of My Life
- The Lakes Of Canada
- The Little Drummer Boy
- The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
- The Midnight Clear
- The Mistress Witch From Mcclure Or The Mind That Knows Itself
- The Owl And The Tanager
- The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us
- The Star
- The Tallest Man The Broadest Shoulders
- The Transfiguration
- The Upper Peninsula
- Tonya Harding
- Too Much
- Uranus
- Venus
- Vesuvius
- Visions Of Gideon
- Vitos Ordination Song
- Wallowa Lake Monster
- We Need A Little Christmas
- Were Goin To The Country
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
These chords come from the now-defunct website Church of Sufjan, which I happened to have printed out a
number of years ago. As best I can tell, the original author is at http://majestysnownerd.tumblr.com/
[Part I]
[INTRO]
D - D/C# - D/G - D/C# D/C#
D D/B
Oh, woman, tell me what you want
D/A D/G
And I'll calm down without bleeding out
D D/A
With a broken heart that you stabbed for an hour
D D/B D/A D/G
Woman, I was freaking out because I want you to know
D D/A
My beloved, you are the lover of my impossible soul
D D/B D/A D/G
Woman, too, promise me you'll stay and put off all your woes
D
I was wigging out, too much worry
D/A
I could not get you at all
D D/B
And you said what you want, you would laugh it off
D/A D/G
But I know you won't go, not for it at last
D D/A
Must you write it off for the impossible soul?
D D/B D/A D/G
And I was in a dream, I was gone away without you, but not too slow
D D/A
Lest I put it off, for I put it right for the impossible soul
Em D Bm C
And all I couldn't sing, I would say it all, my life, to you
G A
If I could get you at all
G Bm A
Don't be a wreck, trying to be something that I wasn't at all
(verse vamp solo x2)
D D/B D/A D/G
Seems I got it wrong, I was chasing after something that was gone
D D/A
To the black of night, now I know it's not what I wanted at all
D D/B
And you said something like, "All you want is all the world for yourself"
D/A D/G
But all I want is the perfect love
D D/A
Though I know it's small, I want love for us all
Em D Bm C
And all I couldn't sing, I would say it all, my life, to you
G A G
If I could get you at all
Bm A
Trying to be something that I wasn't at all
[Part II]
G Bm
Do you want to be afraid?
A C#m
Do you want to be afraid?
G#m Em Bm
For life in the cage where courage's mate runs deep in the wake
A E
For the scariest things are not half as enslaved
C F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
G Bm
Do you want to be alone?
F#m C#m
Do you want to be alone?
G#m Em
For life isn't stained of righteousness pain
Bm A E
The seed and the hail, all impossible flights for an interesting light
C F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
G Bm
Do you want to love me more?
F#m Bm
Do you want to love me more?
G#m
For love is the breath
Em
If water and wave
Bm A
Is cursed by the same thing that nurtured its shame
E
Is it worth all the work?
C F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
E G
Have you failed to feel delight? (No, I don't want to feel pain)
Bbm A
Have you failed to feel delight? (No, I don't want to feel pain)
C C#m Em
Instead of the life, lived tired and lost, have you left it at last
F#m C#m
Where it floundered its death with the language of ghosts
A F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
E G
Do you want to be afraid? (No, I don't want to feel pain)
Bbm A
Do you want to be afraid? (No, I don't want to feel pain)
C
For life in the cage (for life in the cage)
C#m
Where courage's mate (where courage's mate)
Em
Runs deep in the wake (runs deep in the wake)
F#m
For the scariest things (for the scariest things)
C#m
Are not half as enslaved (are not half as enslaved)
Am F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Now
[Instrumental break]
E Bm F#m A#m A
G#m D C C#m Em A# F G#
G# C#
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
G
Now
Em7 (ad lib)
(No, don't be distracted) (x13)
Fade to Bm-Em vamp
[Part III]
Em DMaj7
Stupid man in the window, I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
All my delight, all that mattered, I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
From what I liked, from what I gathered, I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
Stupid man in the window, I couldn't be at rest
Em - DMaj7 (x2)
Em
And don't be shy in the window
DMaj7
Come down and give your best
Em DMaj7
Oh, delight in the window I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
Stupid man in the window, I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
From what I liked, from what I gathered, I couldn't give my best
DMaj7 - A Em - DMaj7 - DMaj7
Em D Bm A ]
Oh, I know it wasn't safe, it wasn't safe to breathe at all ] x3
Em D Bm A
Oh, I know it wasn't safe, it wasn't safe to speak at all
G-DMaj7 (ad lib)
D - Em - G - A
D
Hold on, Suf ]
Hold on, Suf ]
Em G - A ]
Hold on, Sufjan ]x3
N.C.
1, 2, 3, 4!
[Part IV]
D G
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Em A
Put your face together, better get it right
D G
It's a long life, better hit yourself
Em A
Put your face together, better stand up straight
D G
It's a long life, only one last chance
Em A
Couldn't get much better, do you wanna dance?
D G
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Em A
Get your face together, better stand up straight
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(Better get it right, get it right, get it right, get it right)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(Better give love, give love, give love, give love)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(better get it right, get it right, get it right, get it right)
D/F# Em G A
Boy, we can do much more together; It's not so impossible
D Em Bm A
It's not so impossible
D Em Bm A (muted)
It's not so impossible
D Em
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Bm A
Get your face together, better roll along
D Em
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Bm A
Put your face together, better stand up straight
D Em
It's a long life only one last chance
Bm A
Couldn't get much better, do you wanna dance?
D Em
It's a good life, better pinch yourself
D Em
Is it impossible? Is it impossible?
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(Better get it right, get it right, get it right, get it right)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(Better give love, give love, give love, give love)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(better get it right, get it right, get it right, get it right)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together;
A
It's not so impossible
G A
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Bm A/C#
Put your face together, better get it right
D Em
It's a long life, better hit yourself
G A
Put your face together, better stand up straight
G A
In the wrong life, everything is chance
Bm A/C#
Does it register? Do you wanna dance?
D Em
In the right life, it's a miracle
G A
Possibility, do you wanna dance?
Em Bm F#m A
It's not so impossible [x2]
Em Bm F#m A(muted)
It's not so impossible
[BASS NOTES: D G Bm A x2]
(spoken) Do you wanna dance?
[to fingerpick]
G D/F# A G ]
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)]
D/F# F#m A G ]
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)] x4
G D/F# A G
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)
D/F# Bm F#m G
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)
[return to chords]
Em G F#m
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)
G Em DMaj7
Boy, we can do much more together
[Instrumental]
F#m Am C#m A#m
Gm Em Ebm D
F#m Am C#m A#m ]
Boy, we can do much more together (it's not so impossible) ]
Gm Em Ebm D ]
Boy, we can do much more together (it's not so impossible) ] x3
F#
Boy
[PART V]
G Em - Bm - Bm x4
G Em Bm
I never meant to cause you pain
G Em Bm
My burden is the weight of a feather
G Em Bm
I never meant to lead you on
G Em Bm
I only meant to please me, however
Cadd2
And then you tell me, boy, we can do much more
Dsus2
Boy, we can do much more
G Em Bm
Boy, we can do much more together
G Em Bm
Boy, we can do much more together
G Em Bm
I'm nothing but a selfish man
G Em Bm
I'm nothing but a privileged brother
G Em Bm
And did you think I'd stay the night?
G Em Bm
And did you think I'd love you forever?
Cadd2
And then you tell me, boy, we can do much more
Dsus2
Boy, we can do much more
G Em Bm
Boy, we can do much more together
G Em Bm
Boy, we can do much more together
C Bm7
I gotta tell you, girl, I want nothing less
Am7 D
Girl, I want nothing less
C Bm7 Bm
Girl, I want nothing less than pleasure
C Bm7 Bm
Girl, I want nothing less than pleasure
Cadd2
And then you tell me, boy, we can do much more
Dsus2
Boy, we can do much more
G Em Bm
Boy, we made such a mess together
G Em Bm
Boy, we made such a mess together
G Em Bm7
Boy, we made such a mess together
G Em Bm7
Boy we made such a mess together
number of years ago. As best I can tell, the original author is at http://majestysnownerd.tumblr.com/
[Part I]
[INTRO]
D - D/C# - D/G - D/C# D/C#
D D/B
Oh, woman, tell me what you want
D/A D/G
And I'll calm down without bleeding out
D D/A
With a broken heart that you stabbed for an hour
D D/B D/A D/G
Woman, I was freaking out because I want you to know
D D/A
My beloved, you are the lover of my impossible soul
D D/B D/A D/G
Woman, too, promise me you'll stay and put off all your woes
D
I was wigging out, too much worry
D/A
I could not get you at all
D D/B
And you said what you want, you would laugh it off
D/A D/G
But I know you won't go, not for it at last
D D/A
Must you write it off for the impossible soul?
D D/B D/A D/G
And I was in a dream, I was gone away without you, but not too slow
D D/A
Lest I put it off, for I put it right for the impossible soul
Em D Bm C
And all I couldn't sing, I would say it all, my life, to you
G A
If I could get you at all
G Bm A
Don't be a wreck, trying to be something that I wasn't at all
(verse vamp solo x2)
D D/B D/A D/G
Seems I got it wrong, I was chasing after something that was gone
D D/A
To the black of night, now I know it's not what I wanted at all
D D/B
And you said something like, "All you want is all the world for yourself"
D/A D/G
But all I want is the perfect love
D D/A
Though I know it's small, I want love for us all
Em D Bm C
And all I couldn't sing, I would say it all, my life, to you
G A G
If I could get you at all
Bm A
Trying to be something that I wasn't at all
[Part II]
G Bm
Do you want to be afraid?
A C#m
Do you want to be afraid?
G#m Em Bm
For life in the cage where courage's mate runs deep in the wake
A E
For the scariest things are not half as enslaved
C F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
G Bm
Do you want to be alone?
F#m C#m
Do you want to be alone?
G#m Em
For life isn't stained of righteousness pain
Bm A E
The seed and the hail, all impossible flights for an interesting light
C F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
G Bm
Do you want to love me more?
F#m Bm
Do you want to love me more?
G#m
For love is the breath
Em
If water and wave
Bm A
Is cursed by the same thing that nurtured its shame
E
Is it worth all the work?
C F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
E G
Have you failed to feel delight? (No, I don't want to feel pain)
Bbm A
Have you failed to feel delight? (No, I don't want to feel pain)
C C#m Em
Instead of the life, lived tired and lost, have you left it at last
F#m C#m
Where it floundered its death with the language of ghosts
A F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
E G
Do you want to be afraid? (No, I don't want to feel pain)
Bbm A
Do you want to be afraid? (No, I don't want to feel pain)
C
For life in the cage (for life in the cage)
C#m
Where courage's mate (where courage's mate)
Em
Runs deep in the wake (runs deep in the wake)
F#m
For the scariest things (for the scariest things)
C#m
Are not half as enslaved (are not half as enslaved)
Am F
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Now
[Instrumental break]
E Bm F#m A#m A
G#m D C C#m Em A# F G#
G# C#
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
G
Now
Em7 (ad lib)
(No, don't be distracted) (x13)
Fade to Bm-Em vamp
[Part III]
Em DMaj7
Stupid man in the window, I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
All my delight, all that mattered, I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
From what I liked, from what I gathered, I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
Stupid man in the window, I couldn't be at rest
Em - DMaj7 (x2)
Em
And don't be shy in the window
DMaj7
Come down and give your best
Em DMaj7
Oh, delight in the window I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
Stupid man in the window, I couldn't be at rest
Em DMaj7
From what I liked, from what I gathered, I couldn't give my best
DMaj7 - A Em - DMaj7 - DMaj7
Em D Bm A ]
Oh, I know it wasn't safe, it wasn't safe to breathe at all ] x3
Em D Bm A
Oh, I know it wasn't safe, it wasn't safe to speak at all
G-DMaj7 (ad lib)
D - Em - G - A
D
Hold on, Suf ]
Hold on, Suf ]
Em G - A ]
Hold on, Sufjan ]x3
N.C.
1, 2, 3, 4!
[Part IV]
D G
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Em A
Put your face together, better get it right
D G
It's a long life, better hit yourself
Em A
Put your face together, better stand up straight
D G
It's a long life, only one last chance
Em A
Couldn't get much better, do you wanna dance?
D G
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Em A
Get your face together, better stand up straight
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(Better get it right, get it right, get it right, get it right)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(Better give love, give love, give love, give love)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(better get it right, get it right, get it right, get it right)
D/F# Em G A
Boy, we can do much more together; It's not so impossible
D Em Bm A
It's not so impossible
D Em Bm A (muted)
It's not so impossible
D Em
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Bm A
Get your face together, better roll along
D Em
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Bm A
Put your face together, better stand up straight
D Em
It's a long life only one last chance
Bm A
Couldn't get much better, do you wanna dance?
D Em
It's a good life, better pinch yourself
D Em
Is it impossible? Is it impossible?
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(Better get it right, get it right, get it right, get it right)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(Better give love, give love, give love, give love)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together
A
(better get it right, get it right, get it right, get it right)
D/F# Em G
Boy, we can do much more together;
A
It's not so impossible
G A
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Bm A/C#
Put your face together, better get it right
D Em
It's a long life, better hit yourself
G A
Put your face together, better stand up straight
G A
In the wrong life, everything is chance
Bm A/C#
Does it register? Do you wanna dance?
D Em
In the right life, it's a miracle
G A
Possibility, do you wanna dance?
Em Bm F#m A
It's not so impossible [x2]
Em Bm F#m A(muted)
It's not so impossible
[BASS NOTES: D G Bm A x2]
(spoken) Do you wanna dance?
[to fingerpick]
G D/F# A G ]
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)]
D/F# F#m A G ]
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)] x4
G D/F# A G
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)
D/F# Bm F#m G
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)
[return to chords]
Em G F#m
Boy, we can do much more together (It's not so impossible)
G Em DMaj7
Boy, we can do much more together
[Instrumental]
F#m Am C#m A#m
Gm Em Ebm D
F#m Am C#m A#m ]
Boy, we can do much more together (it's not so impossible) ]
Gm Em Ebm D ]
Boy, we can do much more together (it's not so impossible) ] x3
F#
Boy
[PART V]
G Em - Bm - Bm x4
G Em Bm
I never meant to cause you pain
G Em Bm
My burden is the weight of a feather
G Em Bm
I never meant to lead you on
G Em Bm
I only meant to please me, however
Cadd2
And then you tell me, boy, we can do much more
Dsus2
Boy, we can do much more
G Em Bm
Boy, we can do much more together
G Em Bm
Boy, we can do much more together
G Em Bm
I'm nothing but a selfish man
G Em Bm
I'm nothing but a privileged brother
G Em Bm
And did you think I'd stay the night?
G Em Bm
And did you think I'd love you forever?
Cadd2
And then you tell me, boy, we can do much more
Dsus2
Boy, we can do much more
G Em Bm
Boy, we can do much more together
G Em Bm
Boy, we can do much more together
C Bm7
I gotta tell you, girl, I want nothing less
Am7 D
Girl, I want nothing less
C Bm7 Bm
Girl, I want nothing less than pleasure
C Bm7 Bm
Girl, I want nothing less than pleasure
Cadd2
And then you tell me, boy, we can do much more
Dsus2
Boy, we can do much more
G Em Bm
Boy, we made such a mess together
G Em Bm
Boy, we made such a mess together
G Em Bm7
Boy, we made such a mess together
G Em Bm7
Boy we made such a mess together
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