Sufjan Stevens – For The Widows In Paradise Lyrics

A song about love? Death? Jesus?

Stevens himself explains:

“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.”