{"id":13484,"date":"2012-11-10T06:23:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T14:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=13484"},"modified":"2012-11-10T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T17:32:38","slug":"watch-sufjan-stevens-new-video-for-silver-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-11\/watch-sufjan-stevens-new-video-for-silver-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated:  Watch Sufjan Stevens&#8217; New Video for &#8220;Justice Delivers Its Gift (not Death)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SufjanSilverGold-600x60.jpg\"><del><\/del><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13490\" title=\"SufjanSilverGold-600x60\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SufjanSilverGold-600x60.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SufjanSilverGold-600x60.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SufjanSilverGold-600x60-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SufjanSilverGold-600x60-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-10\/listen-and-download-two-songs-from-sufjan-stevens-upcoming-christmas-song-box-set-silver-gold\/\"><strong>As we&#8217;ve written before<\/strong><\/a>, the stupendously-talented <strong>Sufjan Stevens<\/strong> will soon release a box-set of covers of Christmas songs entitled <strong>Silver &amp; Gold<\/strong>.\u00a0 Stevens has now released the official video for a track off the new album, an embellished cover of\u00a0 <strong>Johnny Marks&#8217;<\/strong> song, <em><strong>Justice Delivers Its <del>Death<\/del> Gift<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Check out the song below and what appears to be <del>a melange of Stevens&#8217;<\/del> old home movies.\u00a0 Stevens explains the song and video:\u00a0 &#8220;Super 8 of my <strong>nephew Gavin, age 4, exhibiting immense joy<\/strong>. I shot this a few years ago in HK. Sorry, title card is wrong. Should read \u201cJustice Delivers Its GIFT (not Death, oops!)\u201d by Sufjan Stevens and Johnny Marks \u00a9St. Nicholas Music Inc.\u00a0 No I\u2019m Not Going Crazy for Cocoa Puffs. Peace to the world. XXO, S&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The song&#8217;s lyrics follow the video.\u00a0 Stevens has once again hit his lofty target.\u00a0 Amen brother!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sufjan Stevens - Silver &amp; Gold\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B3cfUolJxYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Justice Delivers Its Death<br \/>\nSilver and gold, silver and gold<br \/>\nEveryone wishes for it<br \/>\nHow do you measure its worth?<br \/>\nJust by the pleasure it gives here on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Oh I&#8217;m getting old. Oh I&#8217;m getting old. Everyone wishes for youth.<br \/>\nHow have I wasted my life?<br \/>\nTrusting the pleasure it gives here on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, come with fire. Lord, come with fire. Everyone&#8217;s wasting their time<br \/>\nStoring up treasure in vain.<br \/>\nTrusting the pleasure it gives here on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Oh I see the end. Oh I see the end. Everyone&#8217;s waiting for death<br \/>\nHow do you measure its worth? Justice delivers its gift here on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Silver and gold. Silver and gold. Silver and gold. Silver and gold.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve written before, the stupendously-talented Sufjan Stevens will soon release a box-set of covers of Christmas songs entitled Silver &amp; Gold.\u00a0 Stevens has now released the official video for a track off the new album, an embellished cover of\u00a0 Johnny Marks&#8217; song, Justice Delivers Its Death Gift.\u00a0 Check out the song below and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}