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Sufjan Stevens – For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti (3:57)

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  • Luat

    ♥

    17 days ago

  • lhdlovebooh

    Beautiful, speechless, lovely... All "beauty" adjectives

    last month

  • Brugelida

    Perfect song.

    March 2012

  • matt1337c

    This song makes me swoon for Sufjan.

    March 2012

  • Cozmofish

    Interesting story I swiped from Songmeanings.net - 'Sufjan performed in Belgium on March 10, 2004... He explains the origin of the name of the song. I'll just quote what he says here: "Let me do a song really quick about a small town up here called Paradise. Michigan has Paradise as well as Hell Michigan. It's kind of interesting. And, Um Paradise is a place...I noticed when we went up there to play a football tournament in high school, I noticed that there was all these single mothers and women and grandmothers but there weren't any men, and so I had sort of devised a story in my mind that they had all died in the war and that they were all widows. But they were really a very happy and optimistic community and they all seemed to be working together, and it was, like, women of the world take over. This is for the widows in Paradise." '

    February 2012

  • CageQwelBSBD

    Totally in love with this song.

    February 2012

  • MarinasMusic

    ♥♥♥>>LOVE<<♥♥♥

    February 2012

  • IntusLegere

    One of my favorites. Especially that version on the video... such a gorgeous song.

    February 2012

  • ritsuka1988

    definitely the best track on Michigan. [4]

    January 2012

  • captainyodel

    ♥__________♥

    January 2012

  • junkie815

    sad and beautiful

    November 2011

  • Roxannah

    ♥♥♥♥♥

    October 2011

  • MarkusTunes

    This song will never grow old...

    September 2011

  • XDRory

    definitely the best track on Michigan. [4]

    September 2011

  • SplitAndDivide

    want 2 listen 4 the rest of my life

    August 2011

  • Xalopalyps

    There are no words to describe how unbelievably beautiful and haunting this song is.[2]

    July 2011

  • annaliiisa

    definitely the best track on Michigan. [3]

    June 2011

  • ZeppDoorsFloyd

    check it out, please! :)

    June 2011

  • ZeppDoorsFloyd

    This is my version of For the widows in paradise, for the fatherless in Ypsilanti

    June 2011

  • GaylorLautner

    definitely the best track on Michigan.

    May 2011
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