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about this song
“To Be Alone With You” is about making sacrifices for love. There’s a lot things that can be read into that sentiment–religion, forbidden love, etc. Insofar as the song is about Jesus (to whom Sufjan refers many times in this song, e.g., the [Upper] Room of Acts 1:12-14 [a sacred space], Jesus' celibacy, going up on a tree, i.e., the cross), this song implicitly asks the listener the following questions: 1) Do you really desire to be alone with Jesus