Casimir Pulaski Day

i have a friend with bone cancer, who is dying. this song hits me so hard whenever i listen to it. it is indescribable. like sufjan wrote it just for me.

very nice. (; reminds me of something i would do. i wish you would've walked more, haha. take care.

So beautifully sad. Love the guitar and banjo.

great song, and video, but why the hell did you cut off the ending?

brilliance.

illinois native right errrre!
i adore this song.
but i dont appreciate how you cut it off at the end

I'm not a lyrics person, so I just enjoyed the melody freely the first few times I heard this song. I was kind of stunned when I did listen to the words for the first time. It is so raw, beautiful, and sad that I cry each time I hear it. I know of no other more genuine and powerful song than Casimir Pulaski Day.

I love this... It's so lonely and it calls for sympathy. i disagree with the people who are saying that they think he's doubting his religion, or blaming God. This sounds more like hesitant acceptance, sort of a soft pain.

Absolutely--it's a story: he doubts...then he accepts. You have to keep listening even if you disagree at first.

I just mean that its not Gods fault if someone dies. And I'm not religious