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Sufjan Stevens

Jupiter

Release date: 9th June 2017

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About This Track

"Jupiter" is a track by Sufjan Stevens, from the album Planetarium, released 9th June 2017. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Sufjan Stevens.

About the Artist

Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics

Jupiter

My father, working night, first shift, eternal light

The curse of Adam: labor

Outside in the parking lot, the current of wind and the light went hot

He held his head in terror

By Jove and by surprise

The current of lightning filled with light

It burned his hands with symbols

White noise, as Lucifer, the sacred fire, the sacred fern

Conceived with holy water

His radiance in the dark

Mysterious shape or beauty mark

As if it were Minerva

Breastplate of Jupiter, the hovering deep, as he spoke the word

The light, the virgin creature

All dreams of all disease are fantasy features first conceived

Illusions worth remembering

Our father late at night, forbidding death, he kissed the light

As Jupiter transfigured

I need you to change me, prevent you, persuade me, by Jove

I need you, sensation, by virtue, persuasion, by Jove, by Jove

By Jove

By Jove

Father of light, father of death, give us your wisdom, give us your breath

Summoner says that Jupiter is the loneliest planet

Red right eye, put in its place, under your foot, carpenter's cape

Sermon of death says Jupiter is the loneliest planet

Floundering star, failed that you are, fevering pitch, figure of speech

Sermon of death says Jupiter is the loneliest planet

Say it with faith, say it with force

Say it to my face, put me in place

Sermon of death says Jupiter is the only conquest

Hurricane heart hurricane haste wandering star, put in its place

Sermon of death says Jupiter is the only contest

Father of light, father of death, give us your wisdom, give us your breath

Sermon of death says Jupiter is the loneliest planet

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Track details

From Planetarium

2017
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Album
Planetarium
Planetarium
Sufjan Stevens
Release year
2017
  1. —Black Energy
  2. —Black Hole
  3. —Halley's Comet
  4. —In the Beginning
  5. —Jupiter
  6. —Kuiper Belt
  7. —Neptune
  8. —Sun
  9. —Tides
  10. —Uranus
  11. —Earth
  12. —Mars
  13. —Pluto
  14. —Moon

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Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)
2025
Seven Swans (Deluxe Edition)
Seven Swans (Deluxe Edition)
2024
Javelin
Javelin
2023
Convocations
Convocations
2021
The Ascension
The Ascension
2020
The Greatest Gift
The Greatest Gift
2017

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Bryce Dessner, James McAlister, Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens
Producer
James McAlister, Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens
Engineer
Jonathan Low
Drums
James McAlister
Guitar
Bryce Dessner
Vocals
Sufjan Stevens
Additional Engineering
Bryce Dessner, Chad Copelin, James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens
Cello
Claire Bryant
Mastering Engineer
TW Walsh
Mixing Engineer
James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens
Organ
James McAlister, Nico Muhly
Percussion
James McAlister
Programmer
James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens
Synthesizer
James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens
Viola
Nadia Sirota
Violin
Ben Russell, Rob Moose
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5 Mar 2018 • 4:04 pm
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