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Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
I'd swim across lake Michigan
I'd sell my shoes
I'd give my body to be back again
In the rest of the room
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
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 goals
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
You went up on a tree
To be alone with me you went up on the tree
I'll never know the man who loved me
“To Be Alone With You” is about making sacrifices for love. There’s a lot things that can be read into that sentiment–religion, forbidden love, etc. Insofar as the song is about Jesus (to whom Sufjan refers many times in this song, e.g., the [Upper] Room of Acts 1:12-14 [a sacred space], Jesus' celibacy, going up on a tree, i.e., the cross), this song implicitly asks the listener the following questions: 1) Do you really desire to be alone with Jesus, to meet Him?; and 2) What would you give up to meet Him (especially considering what He gave up)? Is it worth it?
