{"id":23385,"date":"2015-02-16T08:06:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=23385"},"modified":"2015-02-17T08:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:21:46","slug":"listen-to-new-sufjan-stevens-song-no-shade-in-the-shadow-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-02\/listen-to-new-sufjan-stevens-song-no-shade-in-the-shadow-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to New Sufjan Stevens Song &#8220;No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed9.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed9-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed9-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-01\/new-sufjan-stevens-album-carrie-lowell-coming-watch-album-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\">As mentioned previously<\/a>,<strong> Sufjan Stevens<\/strong> will release in March his new album entitled <em><strong>Carrie &amp; Lowell.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Today Stevens released a harrowing vignette from the impending album. Check out new track <em><strong>No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>Many will welcome the return of &#8220;the old Sufjan sound.&#8221;\u00a0 Hopefully they&#8217;ll embrace again a questioning, mournful soul who&#8217;s not afraid to drop an f-bomb when faced with the loss of a parent (in this case, Stevens&#8217; mother).\u00a0 We love everything about the song.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics follow at bottom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qx1s_3CF07k\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that I fell into your arms<br \/>\nMy only lover<br \/>\nGive out to give in<br \/>\nI search for the capsule I lost<\/p>\n<p>Drag me to hell<br \/>\nIn the valley of The Dalles<br \/>\nLike my mother<br \/>\nGive wings to a stone<br \/>\nIt\u2019s only the shadow of a cross<\/p>\n<p>I slept on my back<br \/>\nIn the shade of the meadowlark<br \/>\nLike a champion<br \/>\nGet drunk to get laid<br \/>\nI take one more hit when you depart<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll drive that stake through the center of my heart<br \/>\nLonely vampire<br \/>\nInhaling its fire<br \/>\nI\u2019m chasing the dragon too far<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s blood on that blade<br \/>\nFuck me, I\u2019m falling apart<br \/>\nMy assassin<br \/>\nLike Casper the ghost<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no shade in the shadow of the cross&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned previously, Sufjan Stevens will release in March his new album entitled Carrie &amp; Lowell.\u00a0 Today Stevens released a harrowing vignette from the impending album. Check out new track No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross.\u00a0 Many will welcome the return of &#8220;the old Sufjan sound.&#8221;\u00a0 Hopefully they&#8217;ll embrace again a questioning, mournful [&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-23385","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\/23385","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=23385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23392,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23385\/revisions\/23392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}