Now Playing: Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You

I really have to talk about this song. The guitar in his song, the intensity of the words and the increasing weight it puts on my heart, it just... oy. It's focused, secretive evocation of longing and sacrifice couldn't be more precise and piercing. It's truly a testament to what a single voice with an acoustic guitar can make you feel. I feel it.

Every once in a while, long while.. I like to take a really hot shower. I turn off all the lights completely, I sit down, and I let the water pelt my face and my body, and it takes me places. It puts me in a very intense place. I can't see anything, all I can do is feel, and think...

I like to think that as I sit there, all the thoughts that flood through my head slowly trickle down into the drain. I really like that intensity. This song is like that. One day I'm gonna find a way to play this song while I take my trip into the heatwave.

I get the same rush of life pressing on me when I sit outside on the grass looking at the stars, letting the music in my ears guide where I go.

alright this is wayyyyyy too thought-heavy. Gonna play some cubeage.

I'd swim across Lake Michigan
I'd sell my shoes
I'd give my body to be 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 a family
You gave your ghost

To be alone.. with me

To be alone with me you went up on a tree

I've never known a man who loved me