This song – and the accompanying video – is so beautiful. Sufjan Stevens (a favorite of mine) writes/sings his feelings about his mother’s life and death.
Here’s a great summary of his album, “Carrie & Lowell”:
“The singer-songwriter stripped his sound down to its bare essentials and wrote a series of gutting, sometimes celebratory songs about the woman who gave birth to him, but who he never entirely knew.” [Josh Modell for avclub.com]
I hope you enjoy it.
