Sufjan Stevens - Love Yourself Lyrics






Love yourself
You are the one thing
I needed
Share of yourself
Show me the things that
You believe in

Love, can you love yourself
Show me everything
Every reason to believe in yourself

Make a shelf
Put all the things on
That you believe in

Love, can you love yourself
Show me everything
Every reason to believe in yourself

Love yourself
You are the one thing
I believe in
Love, can you love yourself
Show me everything
Every reason to believe in yourself
Make a shelf
Put all the things on
That you believe in

Love, can you love yourself
(You are the one thing)
Show me everything
(You are the one thing)
Every reason to believe in yourself
(You are the one thing)
Love, can you love yourself
(You are the one thing)
Show me everything
(You are the one thing)
Every reason to believe in yourself
(You are the one thing)





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  1. M.... T....

    Beautiful song! a friend told me to check you out.. just beautiful :)

  2. N.... ....

    Hey Taylor. You are my girl. Forever and ever AMEN. ( My website http://noahidebooks.angelfire.com )

  3. K.... H....

    I'm blown open. Just discovered this song and listened to it over and over as the full moon rises. This song has the triumph of chariots of fire, the joy of the greatest songs. I feel it's medicine. It feels like a river bursting from a mountain into a waterfall and rainbow, thank you Sufjan.

  4. H.... ....

    Niki & The Dove - Tomorrow wants their tune back! :P

  5. J.... C....

    justin bieber: love yourself because I dont love you
    sufjan stevens: love yourself because I love you






    (reference from a music app. I did not make this connection.)

  6. R.... C....

    in the 1:36 minute of the song it looks like blade runner...😀😀

  7. G.... P....

    🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

  8. Y.... ....

    My face muscles hurts from smiling (":

  9. A.... G....

    This song made me sad, becouse love myself it's a thing that I can't do

  10. t.... ....

    I heard this song in a korean variety show called Begin Again 3 and I fell in love with the few lines. Now here I am. Literally just paused the show bc I HAD to find this song.

  11. J.... M....

    My man Subaru zigging when I thought he was gonna zag and hitting me with those H A P P Y T E A R S

  12. M.... M....

    Wow😍😌🎶✨👏

  13. e.... b....

    Having a introspective monologue at halfway through midnight. X
    I am going to live for myself 🖌 .
    Bella 🦋
    28.8.19 _1^26

  14. N.... s....

    His music never ceases to amaze me and bring joy to my heart that's why I been listening to him for ten years lol

  15. G.... B....

    Yes please. Glad to be from Michigan

  16. f.... p....

    the musi of sufjan still shows me the possibility of freedom of my ego, mind structure & imagination

  17. N.... ~....

    🤸‍♀️💓🥳💋🧘‍♀️👋🏻

  18. M.... K....

    I always notice fans bringing down their favorite artists new albums by saying “you changed your sound and it’s not as good” “you’re trying fit in, be mainstream” and it’s honestly so disgusting how they’re never happy for them. What I absolutely adore about this fanbase, is the positivity and support that’s always here with every track he makes. Of course constructive criticism isn’t a bad thing, but you never shit on the guy and be as toxic as most indie/rock fans...

  19. J.... S....

    Sufjan is a musical genius. No matter what I'm going through, or what mindset I'm in atm, he's got my back.

  20. T.... T....

    Die⚰ negative self hating Trinada! Hello lovely self, I love you!!!❤

  21. C.... M....

    Simply beautiful

  22. l.... b....

    Love yourself
    You are the one thing
    I needed
    Share of yourself
    Show me the things that
    You believe in
    Love, can you love yourself
    Show me everything
    Every reason to believe in yourself
    Make a shelf
    Put all the things on
    That you believe in
    Love, can you love yourself
    Show me everything
    Every reason to believe in yourself
    Love yourself
    You are the one thing
    I believe in
    Love, can you love yourself
    Show me everything
    Every reason to believe in yourself
    Make a shelf
    Put all the things on
    That you believe in
    Love, can you love yourself
    Show me everything
    Every reason to believe in yourself
    Love, can you love yourself
    Show me everything
    Every reason to believe in yourself
    Love, can you love yourself
    (You are the one thing)
    Show me everything
    Every reason to believe in yourself
    (You are the one thing)
    Love, can you love yourself
    (You are the one thing)
    Show me everything
    Every reason to believe in yourself

  23. W.... ....

    😍❤️🏳️‍🌈

  24. T.... S....

    hope Trump can develop a bit of self hatred

  25. B.... A....

    YOU ARE THE ONE THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  26. t.... ....

    Ahhhh
    Fuckkk
    I’m gonna cry
    Thx to him
    🖤💦

  27. S.... O....

    Sufjan sounds so much like Let Go by frou frou

  28. T.... C....

    It's all love. That's all there is.

  29. v.... G....

    You are so underrated.

  30. h.... �....

    this pride month was so iconic whew if 2020 doesn't outdo it i s2g

  31. S.... T....

    The beginning has stranger things vibes

  32. J.... A....

    Dat Stranger Things vibe

  33. m.... m....

    I love Sufjan more than I love myself

  34. P.... D....

    What a lovely tune.

  35. T.... d....

    We need a 10 hours version of this

  36. I.... w....

    ❤🔶💙💜

  37. S.... A....

    I don't hate myself I love myself always that's why I pay full attention to me :) A little selfish and mostly self centered hahaahahahah I am a Leo what can I say :P

  38. A.... �....

    My Velvet Voice..😻

  39. D.... E....

    is that intro a direct sample of Reading Rainbow with Lavar Burton??

  40. C.... C....

    https://www.grainger.com/product/38Y345?gclid=Cj0KCQjwjMfoBRDDARIsAMUjNZo_vDIjc5PlXHGcca_X9JyyTBOgLy3SIPDhGqBJ8N335hMPRAwDaC4aAuaeEALw_wcB&cm_mmc=PPC:+Google+PLA&ef_id=Cj0KCQjwjMfoBRDDARIsAMUjNZo_vDIjc5PlXHGcca_X9JyyTBOgLy3SIPDhGqBJ8N335hMPRAwDaC4aAuaeEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!2966!3!284618243460!!!g!506171035364!

  41. M.... B....

    Sufjan Stevens... When he gets it right, it's a spiritual experience...

  42. R.... R....

    Thanks for makes me feel better.

  43. T.... ....

    Sufjan is the warm blanket after a long trudge thru the cold. <3

  44. S.... ....

    ''accept yourself... love yourself... accept yourself....''

  45. C.... N....

    this is like a lullaby i sing to myself. thank you sufjan, this has helped my anxiety.

  46. l.... ....

    I support Gay Individuals.  I do not support LGBT.I support Christian individuals.  I do not support Religious Right.  Deeply LOVE and RESPECT you Sufjan cause you have always been an INDIVIDUAL waving his own FLAG.

    l.... ....

    The fuck?

  47. s.... ....

    love this song, it's scary how much I hate myself and this song isn't helping but that isn't the song's fault. love it all the same

  48. S.... F....

    I’m trying

  49. M.... G....

    I love your music Mr. Stevens, is so delicate and touching. But this last work sounds like a copy of a copy of a Coldplay song (for the records, I've got nothing against Coldplay). It's just... I feel like you can do so much better.
    Keep up the great music you can create!
    Ps. Thank you.

  50. M.... G....

    Thank You Sufjan! x

  51. S.... ....

    If you listen to Imogen Heap, as well as her side project group, Frou Frou... She shares the same musical DNA as Surjan Stevens.

    There's also a Thomas Dolby (for Prefab Sprout) and Brian Eno production (Souvlaki Space Station) quality going on here too, so spooky.

  52. M.... S....

    Get this bullshit off my YouTube page!!!

  53. J.... ....

    Love... Njyourself... Njyou are the one thing...

  54. g.... ....

    An 'A Sun Came' song with 'Planetarium' production. Really nice.

  55. W.... M....

    My ex sent me this song today and my heart can't handle it. If life hadn't gotten in the way, I'd still be with him.

  56. m.... ....

    From Sufjan himself (sufjan.com) on June 12th, otherwise known as Loving Day:




    RuPaul says: “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else?” Jesus said: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Both suggest that self-love is what makes us human: you cannot love others without loving yourself. Which also means that we must cultivate love as a private and personal practice before we can extend love to others. To love yourself, you must know yourself. And to know yourself, you must love yourself. Love then is a sublime and universal understanding of self and of others. Love is a discipline of one’s own self-consciousness. Love is beautiful. Love is just. It must endure, it must evolve, it must expand, it must be born-again.

    We have other very clear descriptions of love : “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”

    If loving others means loving and knowing yourself, then the failure to love is a failure to be oneself, a failure to be human; an inexcusable and unforgivable crime, and an offense to your humanity. It’s no secret that human history is an incriminating record at times entirely absent of love. We divide and conquer, disenfranchise, enslave, ostracize, oppress, debase, diminish, destroy, and utterly annihilate on the basis of superficial distinctions among us. I wish I could reasonably account for the motivations. Money? Greed? Power? Political and religious entitlement? Ego-mania?

    How about self-loathing?

    The serpent seduced Adam and Eve into eating the fruit on the basis of a hypothetical divine intention: “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” After they ate the fruit, “the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.”

    This seems to suggest that self-consciousness (awareness) is linked to two concepts: justice and shame. If Adam and Eve were living in harmony before knowing jurisprudence, then eating the fruit and knowing the difference between good and evil broke the spell.

    The result: shame. The consequence: division—from God and from each other. They are cast out of the garden and cursed. The resulting histories as revealed in the traditions of Judaism and Christianity (and Game of Thrones, etc.) are not a happy ending. Instead the story of humanity is fraught with disobedience, violence, deception, bloodshed, failure, foolishness and folly. The story didn’t end well for Adam and Even. It doesn’t end well for humanity either.

    This knowledge of good and evil and subsequent division and shame is one of the great mysteries of humankind, and an unresolvable contradiction of being human. We are made in God’s image, but we suffer the incongruity of not being God at all: as (if) God, but not of God. Knowledge is prone to power and power is prone to corruption and corruption is prone to the inevitability of chaos (entropy).

    On this planet, we have been granted the distinction of greater consciousness, which grants us greater privilege, power, and stewardship over the natural world around us.

    What have we to show for it?

    Shame.

    It’s astounding how much of our world still continues to teach us to feel shame. For the color of our skin. For our poverty. For our wealth. For our education. For our religion. For our privilege. For our special need. For our sexuality. For being naked in a garden.

    How do we break this pattern?

    Love.

    My sense is that with knowledge and power, Adam and Eve must be born-again, through love, to a new way of seeing, living, and believing, in order to learn to love themselves in fullness—their bodies, each other, the world around them, the entire universe—in order to begin the great stewardship of being human again.

    This is our calling as well: to be human again. To have awareness without shame, we must undo everything the world has told us about our worth. We must go back to the beginning. We must be born again. We must be, and know, and love ourselves.

    “Be beautiful. Be yourself.”

    “If you can accept your body, then you have a chance to see your body as your new home. You can rest in your body, settle in, relax, feel joy and ease. If you don’t accept your body and your mind, you can’t be at home with yourself. You have to accept yourself as you are. This is a very important practice. As you practice building a home in yourself, you become more and more beautiful.” —Thich Nhay Hanh

    Jesus said, “A new commandment I give you: Love one another as I have loved you.” His love was touch, healing, instruction, service, compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, and, ultimately, self-sacrifice, an act which illuminates profoundly on the laws of self-love and self-worth. “You have value.”

    Why else would he have bothered if it didn’t cost him everything? We are made valuable because of the sacrifice of love.

    And so this is our duty at every moment. To love without compromise and without equivocation. To give it our all, to the end, until we have nothing left to give.

    The message here isn’t very deep.

    So why does it feel so impossible?

    We are called to do one simple thing called love.

    We need to try harder. Do the work.

    My song is love. My prayer is peace.

    My head is full of questions but my heart is full of love!

    XO,

    Sufjan

  57. E.... P....

    This song suck, and youtube won't stop recommending it. Lame.

    Mediocre music. Not interested

  58. K.... B....

    Does music get better than this? Beautiful song, beautiful message... filled with purpose. Well done, again sir.

  59. M.... ....

    Listen to the 1996 demo version thank me later

  60. M.... ....

    Can you pick out the three different letters that look the same?

  61. P.... C....

    Needed this today.

  62. E.... E....

    Love this song. It always calms me down whenever I get anxious. Thank you Sufjan.

  63. G.... K....

    Nice to see Sufjan get over being startled by Kate Bush long enough to make new music.

  64. D.... ....

    This drops during the pride month 🏳️‍🌈 + the album cover is a hecking rainbow (and this is a whole song about loving yourself)

    Anybody who still believes he is straight is wrong, that's the tea.

    (And you can be gay AND a christian ya know, a book can be understood in more ways than one)

    D.... ....

    Not when it explicitly points out that man who have intercourse with another man will not inherit the Kingdom of heaven. Check 1 Corinthians 6:9 just to think I’m not manipulating the words written in guidance from Paul to the church.

    Thinking about that verse gets my mind thinking about Sufjan’s Vesuvius as he uses what Jesus said to Simon, “let the dead bury the dead”, as Simon tells Jesus that he was occupied with a family matter once Jesus said “follow me”. In Vesuvius such as the case with the calling “follow me now or follow the dead”, “why does it have to be so hard”. I interpret that song in that light of acceptance of sin and love.

  65. Z.... P....

    I got some reading rainbow vibes from the beginning

  66. s.... m....

    i thought it was Imogen Heap

  67. E.... Z....

    Coming out of my cage...

  68. r.... s....

    Its been so hard for me this past year and all I have in my mind is negativity but this helps

  69. M.... �....

    Helped more than 7 years of therapy thank you

  70. A.... R....

    Everyone in my life: Amelia we need you to try to love yourself!!
    Me: no I hate myself
    Sufjan: Love, can you love yourself?
    Me: AIGHT LET’S GET ON THIS SELF LOVE TRAIN WOOP WOOP

  71. V.... M....

    I have a crush on him but he’s the same age as my mom 😬

  72. j.... m....

    this is unbelievably beautiful

  73. h.... i....

    I love you so much. 💋

  74. p.... ....

    SUFJAN STEYENS

  75. R.... ....

    Lyrics
    (only translated by ear, may be wrong)

    Love yourself
    You are the one thing I needed
    Share of yourself
    Show me the things that you believe in

    Love, can you love yourself?
    Show me everything,
    every reason to believe in yourself

    Make a shelf
    Put all the things on that you believe in

    Love, can you love yourself?
    Show me everything,
    every reason to believe in yourself

    Love yourself
    You are the one thing I believe in

    Love, can you love yourself?
    Show me everything,
    every reason to believe in yourself

    Make a shelf
    Put all the things on that you believe in

    Love, can you love yourself?
    Show me everything,
    every reason to believe in yourself
    X2

    Love, can you love yourself?
    (You are the one)
    Show me everything,
    every reason to believe in yourself
    (You are the one)
    X2

  76. h.... f....

    AHH NEW SONGS

  77. I.... N....

    Treat yo'self.
    (I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself)

  78. t.... ....

    This is about masturbation, right?

  79. n.... ....

    still like the 2011 version best

  80. S.... ....

    Yas, cheesy comments!

  81. i.... e....

    love you, sufjan.

  82. I.... V....

    🏳️‍🌈= 🗑

  83. I.... V....

    I want to eat glass

  84. B.... B....

    Choke me, Daddy

  85. J.... F....

    Sufjan Stevens <3

  86. H.... A....

    Oh hell yeah!

  87. L.... S....

    Now I love myself, thanks Sufjan.

  88. E.... Z....

    Is this song about self-love or I am just gay?
    Both, my love, both.

  89. B.... ....

    holy fucking shit new sufjan

    im ecstatic to say the least

  90. E.... ....

    Yazzzzz..

  91. B.... M....

    I hate myself more for putting this song on.

  92. P.... B....

    who broke sufjan

  93. W.... P....

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  94. R.... T....

    👏👏🌈🌈