Sufjan Stevens

Carrie and Lowell Such a long time ago Like a dead horse Meadowlark drive your arrow Season of hope (after the flood) Valentine, spurn my sorrow Head on the floorboards (covered in blood) Drunk as a horsefly Climb on the mattress pad Twist my arm Und

I'm nobody's friend Loneliness rides in my bed My misfortune Give everything you've got While the sun burns hot My addiction Spoils my affection For everything good Elephant in the room Might as well shoot at the moon The wild ambition Give everythin

Vesuvius I am here You are all I have Fire of fire I'm insecure For it is all Been made to plan Though I know I will fail I cannot Be made to laugh For in life As in death I'd rather be burned Than be living in Vesuvius Are you ghost Or the symbols o

Abraham, worth a righteous one. Take up on the wood, put it on your son. Lake or lamb. There is none to harm. When the angel came, you had raised your arm. Abraham, put off on your son. Take instead the ram until Jesus comes 专辑:Seven Swans 歌手:Sufjan

I was the best man in a size too small You were my best friend, going at it all What if I put off my inheritance? Where is the best man? All arise us all in peace I still know you And I still like you, the best man I still owe you Everything rises, g

I should have known better To see what I could see My black shroud Holding down my feelings A pillar for my enemies I should have wrote a letter And grieve what I happen to grieve My black shroud I never trust my feelings I waited for the remedy When

Light struck from the lemon tree What if I'd never seen hysterical light from Eugene? Lemon yogurt, remember I pulled at your shirt I dropped the ashtray on the floor I just wanted to be near you Emerald Park, wonders never cease The man who taught m

Demonstrate I was Raised from the start By a priest and The maid on the part Still I know what To wear on my back Michigan! Ponshewaing! Cadillac! If I ever meant to go away I was raised, I was raised In the place, in the place Still I often think of

Once when our mother called, She had a voice of last year's cough. We passed around the phone, Sharing a word about Oregon. When my turn came, I was ashamed. When my turn came, I was ashamed. Once when we moved away, She came to Romulus for a day. He

I have called you children, I have called you son. What is there to answer if I'm the only one? Morning comes in Paradise, morning comes in light. Still I must obey, still I must invite. If there's anything to say, if there's anything to do, If there

Our stepmom, we did everything to hate her She took us down to the edge of Decatur We saw the lion and the kangaroo take her Down to the river where they caught a wild alligator Sangamon River, it overflowed It caused a mudslide on the banks of the o

Something's suddenly unclear Someone's suddenly my fear My eyes demand like broken eaves The ladle overspills on eaves If you once knew How I loved you And my bruise-colored eyes peal Every image to your face and heel And if you're happy, I am too An

Lo! How a rose e're blooming From tender stem hath sprung Of Jesse's lineage coming As those of old have sung It came, a flowerth bright Amid the cold of winter When half-spent was the night Isaiah twice foretold it The rose I have in mind And so the

What the waters wants is hurricanes And sailboats to ride on its back What the water wants is sun kiss And land to run into and back I have a fish stone burning my elbow Reminding me to know that I'm glad That I have a bottle filled with my own teeth

If I miss my chance, I didn't even try I'm not one to regret Christmas in July If my timing is bad, like a fish on a bike, Would you let me pretend Christmas in July? I'm not one to admit, I'm not one to fight, Maybe I was wrong, but maybe I was righ

The only thing that keeps me from driving this car Half-light, jack knife into the canyon at night Signs and wonders: Perseus aligned with the skull Slain Medusa, Pegasus alight from us all Do I care if I survive this? Bury the dead where they're fou

Spirit of my silence I can hear you But I'm afraid to be near you And I don't know where to begin And I don't know where to begin Somewhere in the desert there's a forest And an acre before us But I don't know where to begin But I don't know where to

Now that I fell into your arms My only lover Give out to give in I search for the capsule I lost Drag me to hell In the valley of The Dalles Like my mother Give wings to a stone It's only the shadow of a cross I slept on my back In the shade of the m

I'm not afraid of the black man running He's got it right, he's got a better life coming I don't care what the captain said I fold it right at the top of my head I lost my sight and the state packs in I follow my heart and it leads me right to Jackso

Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor Wearing three layers of coats and leg warmers I see my own breath on the face of the door Oh, I am not quite sleeping Oh, I am fast in bed There on the wall in th