{"id":10073,"date":"2025-05-21T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:44:36","slug":"sufjan-stevens-to-be-alone-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/sufjan-stevens-to-be-alone-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufjan Stevens &#8211; \u00ab\u00a0To be alone with you\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e0ad7f4ad5ea5bc41100c8bac5e59c60 wp-block-paragraph\">Cette courte chanson (deux couplets seulement), d\u00e9pouill\u00e9e dans la pure tradition du folk (<a href=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/tag\/sufjan-stevens\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/tag\/sufjan-stevens\/\">Sufjan Stevens<\/a> y est seulement accompagn\u00e9 par sa guitare acoustique), est comme d&rsquo;habitude une petite merveille de d\u00e9licatesse, mais aussi de subtilit\u00e9. \u00c0 qui Sufjan pense-t-il lorsqu&rsquo;il dit qu&rsquo;il donnerait tout pour \u00eatre \u00e0 nouveau seul dans une pi\u00e8ce avec un homme qui a lui-m\u00eame tout quitt\u00e9, tout l\u00e2ch\u00e9 pour le rejoindre&nbsp;? \u00c0 un amoureux (il est gay depuis longtemps et il ne s&rsquo;en est jamais cach\u00e9)&nbsp;? Ne serait-ce pas plut\u00f4t \u00e0 J\u00e9sus-Christ (il est aussi un fervent chr\u00e9tien)&nbsp;? Les deux sans doute, car Sufjan Stevens a dit dans de nombreuses interviews qu&rsquo;il aime \u00e0 relier la spiritualit\u00e9 et la sexualit\u00e9 \u2013 peut-\u00eatre m\u00eame s&rsquo;est-il amus\u00e9 \u00e0 brouiller les pistes&nbsp;? Je vous laisse en juger en recopiant ici les deux couplets en entier&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"755\" src=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-1024x755.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10075\" style=\"width:501px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-1024x755.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-1536x1133.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-825x609.jpg 825w, https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-1356x1000.jpg 1356w, https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-600x443.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-400x295.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people-1320x974.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Munch-Two-people.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edvard Munch &#8211; \u00ab\u00a0Deux personnes. Les solitaires\u00a0\u00bb, 1899 \/ New York, Museum of Modern Art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d247ab1f76855b8fc97811d610c19f12 wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ab\u00a0I&rsquo;d swim across Lake Michigan,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3d33a01c2035cf0e25fc1d74a5c352f2 wp-block-paragraph\">I&rsquo;d sell my shoes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-800b54e3e8aad7769a1f2f1c6b1fa973 wp-block-paragraph\">I&rsquo;d give my body to be back again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-aa544a6e25de6dc8873fd58598c5362c wp-block-paragraph\">in the rest of the room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1f800e87151b5d0fe3da2515c17cb42d wp-block-paragraph\">to be alone with you.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f3bfd792e48e50939d4cddc95b2ef0ba wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ab\u00a0You gave your body to the lonely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e323807fb430e29edc259feb3370a789 wp-block-paragraph\">they took your clothes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7df57a9c13e51f4e70d2df902050a244 wp-block-paragraph\">you gave up a wife and a family,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-633ab2e5d3f67f750a9cce5289600d16 wp-block-paragraph\">you gave your ghost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9be86d11b17aac74758b9b83c1c58cc3 wp-block-paragraph\">to be alone with me.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ca243747d84c59e5bd2bfa790f96d20f wp-block-paragraph\">Si on retient la premi\u00e8re interpr\u00e9tation, celle d&rsquo;un amour charnel en lequel on a cru, mais qui semble s&rsquo;\u00eatre \u00e9vanoui puisque d\u00e9sormais on en parle au conditionnel, cette chanson en dit long sur la difficult\u00e9 que repr\u00e9sente le fait de quitter une vie pour en rejoindre une autre. Je suis maintenant s\u00e9par\u00e9, mais j&rsquo;ai au moins eu la chance de ne pas avoir \u00e0 choisir entre deux vies, de ne pas \u00eatre tomb\u00e9 amoureux d&rsquo;une autre femme pour laquelle j&rsquo;aurais du quitter ma famille et mes enfants, car je sais qu&rsquo;\u00eatre plac\u00e9 face \u00e0 un choix aussi corn\u00e9lien m&rsquo;aurait litt\u00e9ralement d\u00e9chir\u00e9 le c\u0153ur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-82867c53cb18f816d1c9fb45ad52462c wp-block-paragraph\">Parfois cette difficult\u00e9 est insurmontable, comme le raconte <a href=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/tag\/sufjan-stevens\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/tag\/sufjan-stevens\/\">Sufjan Stevens<\/a> avec sa voix gracile. Le dernier vers a la sombre tristesse d&rsquo;un retour \u00e0 la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 apr\u00e8s un doux r\u00eave\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dd81e9f8211901f59fa88efa44c0e779 wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ab\u00a0<em>I&rsquo;ve never known a man who loved me.<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sufjan Stevens - &quot;To Be Alone With You&quot; (Official Audio)\" width=\"1230\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N3zu9NucyBg?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<!-- templates\/buttons-placeholder.php -->\n<div class=\"da-reactions-outer TpostID10073\">\n\t    <div class=\"da-reactions-data da-reactions-container-async center\"\n         data-type=\"post\"\n         data-id=\"10073\"\n         id=\"da-reactions-slot-post-10073\">\n        <div class=\"da-reactions-exposed\">\n\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/da-reactions\/assets\/dist\/loading.svg\" alt=\"Loading spinner\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cette courte chanson (deux couplets seulement), d\u00e9pouill\u00e9e dans la pure tradition du folk (Sufjan Stevens y est seulement accompagn\u00e9 par sa guitare acoustique), est comme d&rsquo;habitude une petite merveille de&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/sufjan-stevens-to-be-alone-with-you\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sufjan Stevens &#8211; \u00ab\u00a0To be alone with you\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- templates\/buttons-placeholder.php -->\n<div class=\"da-reactions-outer TpostID10073\">\n\t    <div class=\"da-reactions-data da-reactions-container-async center\"\n         data-type=\"post\"\n         data-id=\"10073\"\n         id=\"da-reactions-slot-post-10073\">\n        <div class=\"da-reactions-exposed\">\n\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/da-reactions\/assets\/dist\/loading.svg\" alt=\"Loading spinner\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[127,222,20,9,352],"class_list":["post-10073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musique","tag-amour","tag-folk","tag-inde","tag-pop","tag-sufjan-stevens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17267,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions\/17267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}