Stevens, Sufjan Filmography

• Life Doesn't Frighten Me (2012)
• Beyond This Place (2010)
• All the Way from Michigan Not Mars (2009)
• The BQE (2009)
• The BQE (2009)
• The BQE (2009)
• Eve (2008)
• Crooked River (2006)
• Danielson: A Family Movie (or, Make a Joyful Noise Here) (2006)
• Crooked River (2006)
• Danielson: A Family Movie (or, Make a Joyful Noise Here) (2006)
• Obsessed & Scientific (2005)

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• We Are What You Say - Sufjan Stevens
• Vito's Ordination Song - Sufjan Stevens
• To Be Alone With You - Sufjan Stevens
• They Are Night Zombies - Sufjan Stevens
• The Avalanche - Sufjan Stevens
• That Was The Worst Christmas Ever! - Sufjan Stevens
• Rice Pudding - Sufjan Stevens
• Put The Lights On The Tree - Sufjan Stevens
• Prairie Fire That Wanders About - Sufjan Stevens
• It's Christmas! Let's Be Glad! - Sufjan Stevens
• Ring Them Bells - Sufjan Stevens
• Demetrius - Sufjan Stevens
• A Sun Came - Sufjan Stevens
• We're Goin' To The Country! - Sufjan Stevens
• We Won't Need Legs To Stand - Sufjan Stevens
• We Three Kings - Sufjan Stevens
• You Are The Rake - Sufjan Stevens
• Wordsworth's Ridge - Sufjan Stevens
• They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (for The Homeless In Muskegon) - Sufjan Stevens
• The Upper Peninsula - Sufjan Stevens
• The Transfiguration - Sufjan Stevens
• The Seer's Tower - Sufjan Stevens
• The Predatory Wasp - Sufjan Stevens
• The Pick-up - Sufjan Stevens
• The Dress Looks Nice On You - Sufjan Stevens
• The Owl And The Tanager - Sufjan Stevens
• The Oracle Said Wander - Sufjan Stevens
• The Mistress Witch From Mcclure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself) - Sufjan Stevens
• The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts - Sufjan Stevens
• The Henney Buggy Band - Sufjan Stevens
• THE FRIENDLY BEASTS - Sufjan Stevens
• Super Sexy Woman - Sufjan Stevens
• Springfield, Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair - Sufjan Stevens
• Size Too Small - Sufjan Stevens
• Sister - Sufjan Stevens
• Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens
• Saul Bellow - Sufjan Stevens
• Romulus - Sufjan Stevens
• Pittsfield - Sufjan Stevens
• Only At Christmas Time - Sufjan Stevens
• No Man's Land - Sufjan Stevens
• Kill - Sufjan Stevens
• John Wayne Gacy Jr - Sufjan Stevens
• Jacksonville - Sufjan Stevens
• Impossible Soul - Sufjan Stevens
• I Saw Three Ships - Sufjan Stevens
• Heirloom - Sufjan Stevens
• Happy Birthday - Sufjan Stevens
• Futile Devices - Sufjan Stevens
• For The Widows In Paradise; For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti - Sufjan Stevens
• Dumb I Sound - Sufjan Stevens
• Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother! - Sufjan Stevens
• Decatur - Sufjan Stevens
• Dear Mr. Supercomputer - Sufjan Stevens
• Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing - Sufjan Stevens
• Come On Feel The Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens
• Chicago (multiple Personality Disorder Version) - Sufjan Stevens
• Chicago (adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version) - Sufjan Stevens
• Chicago (acoustic Version) - Sufjan Stevens
• Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
• A Loverless Bed (without Remission) - Sufjan Stevens
• Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
• Carlyle Lake - Sufjan Stevens
• Amazing Grace - Sufjan Stevens
• All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands - Sufjan Stevens
• All The King's Horns - Sufjan Stevens
• Adlai Stevenson - Sufjan Stevens
• A Winner Needs A Wand - Sufjan Stevens

We are a servant, we have a song
The side of a beehive, a tabernacle choir
We are the sound working in wars
The bishop is gone to the acolyte shores
We save our Bibles, we pull our sleeves
The word is a guard and the guard is a cleave
We are the right, we are the stay
The accolade's gone, we are what you say
We have no language, we have no chore
The side of a beehive, the bride is a whore
We are a spite, we are at bay
The spirit is life, we are what you say
We have a sermon, we have a song
The bishop is easy, the bishop is wrong
The spirit is right, the spirit will say

I always knew you
In your mothers arms
I have called your name
I have an idea
Placed in your mind
To be a better man
I've made a crown for you
Put it in your room
And when the bride groom comes
There will be noise
There will be glad
And a perfect bed
And when you write a poem
I know the words
I know the sounds
Before you write it down
Only wear your clothes
I wear them too
I wear your shoes
And your jacket too
I always knew you
In your mothers arms
I have called you son
I've made amends
Between father and son
Or if you haven't one
Rest in my arms
Sleep in my bed
There is a design

I'd swim across lake Michigan
I'd sell my shoes
I'd give my body to be back again
In the rest of the room
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
You gave your body to the lonely
They took your clothes
You gave up a wife and a family
You gave your goals
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
You went up on a tree
Aah, aah, aah
To be alone with me
You went up on the tree
Aah, aah, aah
I've never known the man who loved me

I L L I N O I S
Ring the bell and call or write us
I L L I N O I S
Can you call the Captain Clitus?
(Who will save it?)
Logan, Grant, and Ronald Reagan
(Dedicate it?)
In the grave with Xylophagan
(Who will praise it?)
Do you know the ghost community?
(Commemorate it for you?)
Sound the horn, address the city
We are awaken with the ax
Night of the living dead at last
They have begun to shake the dirt
Wiping their shoulders from the earth
I know, I know the nations past
I know, I know they rust at last
They tremble with the nervous thought
Of having been, at last, forgot
I L L I N O I S
Ring the bell and call or write us
I L L I N O I S
Can you call the Captain Clitus?
(Who will save it?)
B U D A Caledonia
(Dedicate it?)
S E C O R magnolia
(Who will praise it?)
B I R D S and Kankakee
(Commemorate it for you?)
Evansville and parker city
Speaking their names, they shake the flag
Waking the earth, it lifts and lags
We see a thousand rooms to rest
Helping us taste the bite of death
I know, I know my time has passed
I'm not so young, I'm not so fast
I tremble with the nervous thought
Of having been, at last, forgot
I L L I N O I S
Ring the bell and call or write us
I L L I N O I S
Can you call the Captain Clitus?
(Who will save it?)
Comer and potato peelers
(Dedicate it?)
G R E E N ridge reeders
(Who will praise it?)
M C V E Y and Horace
(Commemorate it for you?)
E N O S start the chorus
(Who will save it?)
Corn and farms and tombs in lemon
(I know, I know my time has passed)
(Dedicate it?)
Sailor springs and all things feminine
(I'm not so young, I'm not so fast)
(Who will praise it?)
Center ville and old metropolis
(I tremble with the nervous thought)
(Commemorate it for you?)
Shawneetown, you trade and topple us
(Of having been, at last, forgot)
(Who will save it?)
I L L I N O I S
(I know, I know my time has passed)
(Dedicate it?)
Hold your tongue and don't divide us
(I'm not so young, I'm not so fast)
(Who will praise it?)
I L L I N O I S
(I tremble with the nervous thought)
(Commemorate it for you?)
Land of God, you hold and guide us

I call ye cabin neighbors
I call you once my friends
But I trust when you labor
And put my head to rest
But I was on the hatch
I was on the avalanche
And I had found my match
I was on the floor
I took a train from Virginia
To Illinois, my home
He said, "I knew you had it in you"
The mind to make its own
But I was on the hatch
Riding on the avalanche
I tried to take it back
I was on the floor
Come on, stone
Come on, star
Come on, snow
Come on, car
Come on, hand
Come on, feet
Come on, face
Come on, street
Come on, state
Come on, song
Move it fast
(Take it up)
Move it along
(The Ohio River)
Come on, life
(Take it up)
Come on, lord
(Take it ever)
Make it right
(To the Mississippi)

Going outside, shoveling snow in the driveway, driveway
Taking our shoes, riding a sled down the hillside, hillside
Can you say what you want? Can you say what you want to be?
Can you be what you want? Can you be what you want?
Our father yells, throwing the gifts in the wood stove, wood stove
My sister runs away, taking her books to the schoolyard, schoolyard
In time the snow will rise, in time the snow will rise
In time the Lord will rise, in time the Lord will rise
Silent night, holy night

I'm taking you down to the place in the field
And when I find you underneath the grass
I know you feel this way, you feel this way
Because I know you and I feel you
And I feed you rice pudding at the benefit concert

Put the lights on the tree
(Put them on the tree, put them on the tree)
Put the ribbon on the wreath
(Put it on the wreath, put it on the wreath)
And call your grandma on the phone
(Call her on the phone, call her on the phone)
If she's living all alone
(If she's all alone, if she's all alone)
Tell her Jesus Christ is here
(Tell her He is here, tell her He is here, tell her He is here)
Tell her she has none to fear
(There is none to fear, there is none to fear, there is none to fear)
If she's crying on the phone
(Crying on the phone, crying on the phone, crying on the phone)
Tell her you are coming home
(You are coming home, you are coming home)
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la

Peoria, destroyia
Infinity, divinity
For Lydia, Octavia
And Jack-of-Trades
The Cubs, hooray
The Opera House
Where Emma sang
America, oh will it play?
And Santa Clause
The Great Parade
Peoria
You have it made
Into the crossfire, faithfully run
Middle America, one on one
Peoria

Since it's Christmas! Let's be glad!
Even if your life's been bad
There are presents to be had
Take a walk out in the snow
And hear Santa's, ho ho ho
He's got a million miles to go
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
Sing a carol to your mom
'Cause she knows what's going on
And she knows if you've been bad or good
And if you get what you deserve
To be graded on the curve
Oh, you got a lot of nerve
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
Since the year is almost out
Lift your hands and give a shout
There's a lot to shout about today
Since it's Christmas! Let's be glad!
Even if the year's been bad
There are presents to be had
A promotion for your dad

Ring them bells, ye heathen from the city that dreams
Ring them bells from the sanctuaries cross the valleys and streams
For they're deep and they're wide and the world's on its side
And time is running backwards and so is the bride
Ring them bells St. Peter where the four winds blow
Ring them bells with an iron hand, so the people will know
Oh, it's rush hour now on the wheel and the plow
And the sun is going down upon that sacred cow
Ring them bells Sweet Martha for the poor man's son
Ring them bells so the world will know that God is one
Oh, the shepherd is asleep where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled with lost sheep
Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf
Ring them bells for all of us who are left
Ring them bells for the chosen few
Who will judge the many when the game is through
Ring them bells for the time that flies
For the child that cries when innocence dies
Ring them bells St. Catherine from the top of the room
Ring them from the fortress for the lilies that bloom
Oh, the lines are long and the fighting is strong

Reach for the archer
He chose an offer
You are only a redeemer
You are holy like Demetrius
Change the hoodoo caper
Strange impersonator
Make a multi-tracker
Take your book and back her
You are like that, a redeemer

Everything you are is everything we have
You're the only good thing
A sun came burned our faces brown
Burned our faces red
You are still the rage
A rock from the enemy
There is still a house
A cage for the enemy
When my friends turned out
I found out there is still a Lord
But I never felt so lonely

If you seek a pillow for your head
Or a fitted sheet for Christmas bed
If you see your shadow on the snow
Is it from the baby Jesus glow?
He's going to the country
Find a tree and put it in your house
Put a mistletoe upon your mother's blouse
If you see a woman dressed in black
Give her up a song and then ask for it back
We're goin' to the country! We're goin' to the country!
You're mom's going to the country

So faithful, so few
so pardon, and done
And when we receive
We give a change at last
When we are dead, we all have wings
We won't need legs to stand
When we receive

Two three four five six
We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we travel so far
Field and fountain, moor and mountain
Following yonder star
Oh, star of wonder, star of might
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to thy perfect light
Glorious now behold Him arise
King and God and sacrifice
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Earth to heaven replies
Oh, star of wonder, star of might
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding

I never felt so safe
A line I once told her
Warm resting place
Her arm on my shoulder
You are the rock, you are the rake
You are the one when I watch myself
You are the rock, you are the rake
You are the one when I watch myself
We ran into a cave
When the wars came closer
She turned into a cave
Where it turned colder
You are the rock, you are the rake
You are the one when I watch myself
You are the rock, you are the rake
You are the one when I watch myself
You are the rock, you are the rake
You are the one when I watch myself
You are the rock, you are the rake

A summer night, I find a boat
Tied to a tree, a normal home
She lost her string and stepping in
I push the shore there, an act of stealth
A troubled glad without a voice
A mountain song, the boat moves on
The water runs on either side
The circle swell, a sudden light takes me
I fix my view upon the ridge
Horizon's eye above the gray sky
I tip my oar to raise the stroke
The wading swan, the image broke
A looming peak, a pirate size

If you happen to be educated
Time it marches on, oh, time it marches on
In the end there is a sacred show
Delivers every song, delivers every song
Mourning steps and mourning gallivants
And mourning never shows, no mourning never slows
If the avatar reminds that it
Will never stand at all, will never stand as tall
Since the water made it most to sail it
Made it most to song, it made it most to song
For the politics are not political
For what they stand for, not what they demand
Every senator and diplomat
Combines her certain part a matter for the heart
Save yourself from recognition
Selfless and quite song to better get along
We love you, we chose to
We made to, we love you
If we concentrate and pull
Resources to the highest poll
To beat the highest pull, too
Ever will we conquer grief
And find it faster to resolve the dead, to be absolved
And fed, to restore if the advantageous
Reprimand misgivings, we won't grow
We will not ever know we will not

I live in America with a pair of pay less shoes
The upper peninsula and the television news
And I've seen my wife at the K-Mart
In strange ideas we live apart
I live in a trailer home with a snow mobile, my car
The window is broken out and the interstate is far
I drove all night to find my child
In strange ideas he's been revived
In strange ideas, in stranger times
I've no idea what's right sometimes
I lost my mind, I lost my life

When He took the three disciples
To the mountainside to pray
His countenance was modified
His clothing was aflame
Two men appeared, Moses and Elijah came
They were at His side
The prophecy, the legislation spoke of
Whenever He would die
Then there came a word
Of what He should accomplish on the day
Then Peter spoke
To make of them a tabernacle place
A cloud appeared in glory as an accolade
They fell on the ground
A voice arrived, the voice of God
The face of God, covered in a cloud
What He said to them
The voice of God, the most beloved Son
Consider what He says to you
Consider what's to come
The prophecy was put to death
Was put to death and so will the Son
And keep your word, disguise the vision
'Til the time has come
Lost in the cloud, a voice
Have no fear, we draw near
Lost in the cloud, a sign
Son of man, turn your ear
Lost in the cloud, a voice
Lamb of God, we draw near
Lost in the cloud, a sign

In the tower above the earth
There is a view that reaches far
Where we see the universe
I see the fire, I see the end
Seven miles above the earth
There is Emmanuel of mothers
With his sword, with his robe
He comes dividing man from brothers
In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel
In the powers of the earth, we wait until it rips and rips
In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel
Oh my mother, she betrayed us but my father loved and bathed us
Still I go to the deepest grave

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 the bedroom creeping
I see a wasp with her wings outstretched
North of Savanna we swim in the palisades
I come out wearing my brother's red hat
There on his shoulder my best friend is bit seven times
He runs washing his face in his hands
Oh how I meant to tease him
Oh how I meant no harm
Touching his back with my hand I kiss him
I see the wasp on the length of my arm
Oh great sights upon this state, Hallelujah
Wonders bright and rivers, lake, Hallelujah
Trail of Tears and Horseshoe Lake, Hallelujah
Trusting things beyond mistake, Hallelujah
We were in love
We were in love
Palisades, Palisades
I can wait, I can wait
Lamb of God, we sound the horn, Hallelujah
To us your ghost is born, Hallelujah
I can't explain the state that I'm in
The state of my heart, he was my best friend
Into the car from the back seat
Oh admiration in falling asleep
All of my powers, day after day
I can tell you, we swaggered and swayed
Deep in the tower, the prairies below
I can tell you, the telling gets old
Terrible sting and terrible storm
I can tell you the day we were born
My friend is gone, he ran away
I can tell you, I love him each day
Though we have sparred, wrestled and raged
I can tell you I love him each day
Terrible sting, terrible storm

All things passed in the pick-up, found my brother's badge
Abraham is alive and well in the pick-up
And his wife casts no more spells in the pick-up
Found myself in the pick-up, seatbelt on my lap
And my sister with her bracelet in the pick-up
Kiss my mother on her face in the pick-up

I can see a lot of life in you
I can see a lot of bright in you
And I think the dress looks nice on you
I can see a lot of life in you
I can see a bed and make it too
I can see a fireside turn blue
I can see the lot of life in you
Yes, I can see a lot of life in you
When the world looks back
When the face looks after that
I can see a lot of life in you
Yes, I can see a lot of life in you
I can see a lot of life in you
I can see your bed and make it too
And I think the dress looks nice on you
Yes, I can see a lot of life in you
I can see a lot of life in you

All I had hoped for
I kept inside your car
The rabbit in the barn
Most of all I wait
I wait beside the door; I wait beside the door
All I was wrong trembling in the cage
I was diamonds in the cage
In seven hours I consider death
And your father called to yell at me
You little boy, you little boy
Found out you cheated me
I ran behind the barn and cut my hands somehow
Blood in the meadowlark
I punched your ears instead
I punched you in the head
You only laughed and laughed and laughed
How I was wrong tingling from the kill
Tickle me until you devil bird you evil still
Slept on my arms, I was sleeping in the sill
I was sleeping in the room with you
You little boy, you little boy
How could you run from me now?
The loneliest chime in the house
The loneliest chime in the house
You let it out you let it out
Come to me Calvary still
I'm weeding and raking until
I'm bleeding in spite of my love for you
It bruised and bruised my will
Counting alluvial plains
The breathing inside of the range
You touched me inside of my cage
Beneath my shirt your hands embraced me
Come to me feathered and frayed
For I am the ugliest prey,
For I am the ugliest prey
The owl, the reckless reckless praise.
You said you'd wait for me
Down by Tannery Creek
Far out by the roadside where we used to kiss behind the sheets
Wrapped in a blanket of red
The Owl and the Tanager said
The Owl and the Tanager said

Cave the Cadmus country soon
Europa's sake he drew
Till the oracle said wander
Safe libation water slew
A serpent near him knew
The dragon's teeth he threw

And the winter moves about Illinois
When my sister picks a fight with the Alexander boy
And my father locks the car by the store
Still we figure out the keys and follow him once more
Oh my God, we see it on the floor
The woman on the bed the ankle brace she wore
Stones and sled it could have been some other
The mind that knows itself has a mind to serve the other
And we run back scratching at the door, scratching at the door
If I'm hiding in the sleeves of my coat
When my father runs undressed, he's pointing at my throat
And my brother has a fit in the snow
And the traffic stops for miles, we take him by the elbow
Oh my God, the shuffling at the floor
(Oh my God)
A mind that knows itself is a mind that knows much more
(No one came to our side)
So we run back, scrambling for cover
(To carry us away from danger)
A mind that knows itself has a mind to kill the other
(Oh my God, no one came to our side)
Oh my God, he left us now for dead
(Oh my God)

Trouble falls in my home
Troubled man, troubled stone
Turn a mountain of lies
Turn a card for my life
Man of steel, man of heart
Tame our ways, if we start
To devise something more
Something half ways
Only a steel man came to recover
If he had run from gold, carry over
We celebrate our sense of each other
We have a lot to give one another
I took a bus to the lake
Saw the monument face
Yellow tides, golden eyes
Red and white, red and wise
Raise the flag, summer home
Parted hair and part unknown
If I knew what I read
I'll send it half ways
Only a real man can be a lover
If he had hands to lend us all over
We celebrate our sense on each other
We have a lot to give one another
Took my bags, Illinois
Dreamt the lake took my boy
Man of steel, man of heart
Turn your ear to my part
There are things you have said
Raise the boat and raise the dead
If you take us away
Still can we say
Only a steel man can be a lover
If he had hands to tremble all over
We celebrate our sense of each other
We have a lot to give one another
Only a steel man can be a lover
If he had hands to tremble all over
We celebrate our sense of each other

Oh life, with your shoulders in the mirror
From the park when Dakota ran and brought you there
In the car when your mother lost her temper
The catalog and the catastrophic smile
Let the bugles play the sermon on the raid
I kissed you on the face
I kissed you on the playground
Oh Father John, you cannot tell me
What?s right and wrong you cannot tell me
I jump before I get around you
Oh Father John
Pick it up with the band on the Ronald Reagan tollway
Don?t give up, let's go forget about yourself
Illinois in it ran from the Ronald Reagan tollway
Forget about yourself and all your plans
Oh life, with your colorful surprises
Eleanor, how you put one on disguises
Oh Father John, you cannot tell me
What?s right and wrong you cannot tell me
In the mortal life far in the morning light
We?re back from Bloomington we let the runners win
Far in the morning light we let the movies play
A weekend from the holiday
Pick it up with the band on the Ronald Reagan toll way
Don?t break down, let?s go forget about yourself
Illinois in it ran from the Ronald Reagan toll way
If I?m wrong makes nothing right about yourself
Snowmobile on the field where the gunners throw their weight around

Jesus our brother, strong and good
Was humbly born in a stable rude
And the friendly beasts around Him stood
Jesus our brother, strong and good
"I," said the donkey, shaggy and brown
"I carried His mother up hill and down
I carried His mother to Bethlehem town?
"I," said the donkey, shaggy and brown
"I," said the cow, all white and red
"I gave Him my manger for His bed
I gave Him my hay to pillow His head?
"I," said the cow, all white and red
"I," said the sheep with curly horn
"I gave Him my wool for His blanket warm
He wore my coat on Christmas morn'?
"I," said the sheep with curly horn
"I," said the dove from rafters high
"I cooed Him to sleep so He would not cry
We cooed Him to sleep, my mate and I"
"I," said the dove from rafters high
Thus every beast by some good spell
In the stable dark was glad to tell
Of the gifts he gave Emmanuel

She's a superhuman girl, she is Superwoman
She is Superman's cousin, she's got superpower lovin'
She's got superhuman eyes to see through superhuman vision
She's got superhuman thighs sexier than television
She is super duper smart I like her for her mind
She'll shoot a super fart the deadly silent kind
She's got superhuman lips for super suction
She's got superpower hips for super reproduction
She's a superhuman girl, she is Superwoman
She is Superman's cousin, she's got superpower lovin'
She's got superhuman eyes to see through superhuman vision
She's got superhuman thighs sexier than television
She's a lot like Catwoman just without the leather
She likes ropes and chains and an electronic tether
She's got a super long tongue and spandex underwear
She's got Superman's smile and Wonderwoman's hair
She's a superhuman girl, she is Superwoman
She is Superman's cousin, she's got superpower lovin'
She's got superhuman eyes to see through superhuman eyes
She's got superhuman thighs sexier than television
She is Supergirl, Superwoman, Super Sexy Woman
She is Supergirl, Superwoman, Super Sexy Woman
She is Supergirl, Superwoman, Super Sexy Woman

I don't care to say
What I failed to recognize
Every single day
From the poker to the prize
Running out of Springfield, I worked for the Capitol Air
In the bags
Found a woman there who said, she had a mind
To make me a messenger man
If my father took his life
For the national plan
I don't care, I'm not about to stick my grave
With an apron and a bucket of plans
Never ever, I can take the pillow cases
Off the yellow pillows, make a property line
From the bed in the living room, the living room
The morning papers made the most out of nothing at all
So we took the room
With a view of the runaway
I took off my clothes
And she took it for a holiday
I was taken for all the things
That I never had before
Running out of Springfield, she left me
With a note saying, "Bobby, don't look back"
And if my wife took a bicycle ride
With a knife in her hand
I saw it coming all the shad-flies run at once
With a trumpet or a train, oh, I'm running from it
Wait a minute, wait a minute, give a minute, lady
I can explain the aftershave
Wait a minute, wait a minute, give a minute

I was the best man
In a size too small
You were my best friend
Going at it all
And 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
Going at it all
All the surprises
In a size too small
And what if I
Told you I was in love with this?
Would you surprise us
In a size for all of me?
I still know you
And I still like you
The best man
I still know you
The best man

What the water 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 old teeth
They fell out like a tear in the bag
And I have a sister somewhere in Detroit
She has black hair and small hands
And I have a kettledrum, I'll hit the earth with you
And I will crochet you a hat
And I have a red kite, I'll put you right in it

We didn't sleep too late
There was a fire in the yard
All of the trees were in light
They had no faces to show
I saw a light in the sky
Seven swans, seven swans, seven swans
I heard a voice in, in my mind
"I will try, I will try, I will try"
We saw the dragon move down
My father burned into coal
My mother saw it from far
She took her purse to the bed
I saw a sign in the sky
Seven horns, seven horns, seven horns.
I heard a voice in my mind
"I am Lord, I am Lord, I am Lord?
He said, "I am Lord, I am Lord, I am Lord"
He said, "I am Lord, I am Lord, I am Lord"
He will take you, if you run

What's the worth of
All the work of my hands?
And the worst of
On Lake Michigan
Getting solid walls with the know-it-alls
Get in trouble with Saul Bellow
Getting solid walls with the know-it-alls
Get in trouble with Saul Bellow
And my good friends
With their eyes on what it takes
I could kiss them
But the reeling's make mistakes
Getting solid walls with the know-it-alls
Get in trouble with Saul Bellow
Getting solid walls with the know-it-alls
Get in trouble with Saul Bellow
Getting solid walls and with what it calls
Get in trouble with Saul Bellow
Getting solid walls with the know-it-alls

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
Her Chevrolet broke down
We prayed it never be fixed or be found
We touched her hair
We touched her hair
We touched her hair
We touched her hair
When she had her last child
Once when she had some boyfriend, some wild
She moved away quite far
Our Grandpa bought us a new VCR
We watched it all night
We grew up in spite of it
We watched it all night
We grew up in spite of it
We saw her once last fall
Our Grampa died in a hospital gown
She didn?t seem to care
She smoked in her room and colored her hair
I was ashamed
I was ashamed of her
I was ashamed
I was ashamed of her

I'm not afraid of you now, I know
So I climbed down from the bunk beds this low
I can talk back to you now, I know
From a few things I learned from this TV show
You can work late till midnight, we don't care
We can fix our own meals, we can wash our own hair
I go to school before sunrise, in the cold
And I pulled the alarm and I kicked up the salad bowls
Since that time we meant to say much
Unsaid things begin to change
After school we shoveled through the snow
Drive upstate in silence in the cold
You can remind me of it that I was lazy and tired
You can work all your life as I'm not afraid of you anymore
If I loved you a long time, I don't know
If I can't recall the last time you told me so
Here in this house in Pittsfield
The ghost of our grandmother works at the sewing machine post
Hiding the bills in the kitchen on the floor
And my sister lost her best friend in the Persian Gulf War
There was a flood in the bathroom last May
And you kicked at the pipes when it rattled, oh the river it made
Stand there, tell me that I'm of no use
Things unspoken break us if we share
There's still time to wash the kitchen floor
On your knees, at the sink once more
You can remind me that I was tired
You can work late and give yourself up
Now that I'm older, wiser, and working less
I don't regret having left the place a mess
You can remind me that I was lazy and tired
You can recall your life as I'm not afraid of you anymore

Only to bring you peace, only at Christmas time
Only the King of kings, only what once was mine
It takes the end of time, it takes a long, long time
Only one thought of mine, only at Christmas time
He brings us peace, He brings us joy
He brings all faults to destroy, only at Christmas time
To bring us peace, to bring us joy
To bring all faults to destroy, only at Christmas time
Only at Christmas time, only a tree to climb
Only at Christmas time, if you can read the sign
Only at Christmas time, [Incomprehensible]

Up in the highest of heights, O'Hara blinks and fights
This land is yours, this land is mine
I see the captain in red and Cairo at his head
This land is yours, this land is mine
The lightning over the park, the waters, brash and dark
We take a swim, we take a swim
I never meant to escape the carpet and the trade
This land is yours, this land is mine
And when I make up my mind, I change it all the time
I take it back, I take it back
The numbers over the dam, Jo Davies and the band
I count them out, I count them out
There was a car in the bay, by the boat that swept and swayed
Whoever you are in the light, in the water that we made
I'm counting it out, I'm counting it out, I'm working it out
Inside, I'm counting it out from the floor
The ferry hatches Moline, Panola Beauty Queen
She takes a bow, she takes a bow
In Charles, we climb the hill and Danville window sill
I take it back, I take it back
My sister she counts the bars, the Macon county cars
She takes a bow, she takes a bow
The Mississippi amends, the Carver and the bends
This land is yours, this land is mine
My brother punches my ear, the injured ivory deer
I call my dad, I call my dad
We skip inside of the store, the Mason winter door
This land is yours, this land is mine
There was a car in the bay, by the boat that swept and swayed
Whoever you are in the light, in the water that we made
I'm holding your hand by the shore with our collars pulled up tight
I'm counting it out, I'm counting it out, I'm working it out inside
I'm counting it out, I'm counting it out, I'm working it out inside
I'm counting it out
This land is not your land, for the right hand
Takes what it can, ransacks with the mad man
For this land is not yours or mine to have

He took the stable
Bred me to be a mare
Made the bretheren able
Gave me a room
I never asked him
I never meant to stay
He dressed the table
Wore a dress to be my mare
There's no permanence
When you never leave the stall
He ran to other wars
Won't write me at all
I want to kill him
I want to cut his brain
And when it's over
I know I'll feel okay
He was a champion
We were riding side by side
Into the frontier
He left me without a ride
Where did the hour go
When the champions intercede?
He stole the cargo
Took every chance to leave
There's no permanence
When you never leave the stall
He ran to other wars
Won't write me at all
I want to kill him
I want to cut his brain
And when it's over
I know I'll feel okay
I want to kill him
I want to cut his face
And when it's over
I know I'll feel okay
I want
I want
I want

His father was a drinker, and his mother cried in bed..
Folding John Wayen's T- Shirts, when the swig sett hit his head..
The neighbors they adored him for his humor and his conversations..
Look underneath the house there, find a few living things running fast in their sleep of the dead..
Twenty seven people, even more they were boy's with their cars, summer jobs...oh my god!.....uuuuhh....are you one of them?...
He dressed up like a clown for them, with his face paint white and red..
On his best behavior, in a dark room on the bed he kissed them all...
He killed ten thousand people, with a slide of his hand..running far running fast to the dead..
He took off all their cloths for them, he put a cloth on their lips, quiet hands..quiet kiss on the mouth.......
On my best behavior..I am really just like him..

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 Jackson
Oh Keller, oh oh oh
She gave us a medal she gave us a map
Oh Canner Row, oh oh oh
If seeing is right, then look where you?re at
I?m not afraid of Nichol?s Park
I ride the train and I ride it after dark
I?m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it one more try
I said things that I meant to say
The bandstand chairs and the Dewey Day parade
I go out to the golden age
The spirit is right and the spirit doesn?t change
Oh Keller, oh oh oh
She gave us mirror she gave us a map
Oh Canner Row, oh oh oh
If seeing is right then look where you?re at
Andrew Jackson, all I?m asking
Show us the wheel and give us the wine
Woohoo, woohoo
Raise the banner, Jackson hammer
Everyone goes to the capitol line
Woohoo, woohoo
Colored preacher, nice to meet you!
The spirit is here and the spirit is fine!
Woohoo, woohoo
Education, ask the nation
You gave us our sight and the hearing is fine
Woohoo, woohoo
Andrew Jackson all I?m asking

Ooh. Woman, tell me what you want
And I'll calm down without bleeding out
With a broken heart that you stabbed for an hour
Woman, too, I was freaking out because I want you to know
My beloved, you are the lover of my impossible soul
And woman, too, promise you'll stay and put off all your woes
I was wigging out, too much worry, I could not get you at all
And you said what you want, you would laugh it off
But I know you won't go, not for any less
Must you write it off for the impossible soul
And I was in a dream, I was gone away without you, but not too slow
Lest I put it off, 'for I put it right for the impossible soul
And all I couldn't sing, I would say it all my life, to you, if I could get you at all
Don't be a wreck, trying to be something that I wasn't at all
Seems I got it wrong, I was chasing after something that was gone
To the black of night, now I know it's not what I wanted at all
And you said something like, "All you want is all the world for yourself"
But all I want is the perfect love, though I know it's small, I want love for us all
And all I couldn't sing, I would say it all my life, to you, if I could get you at all
Oh, oh oh oh, trying to be something that I wasn't at all
Do you want to be afraid?
Do you want to be afraid?
For life in the cage where courage's mate runs deep in the wake
For the scariest things are not half as enslaved
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Do you want to be alone?
Do you want to be alone?
For life is instead on righteousness led
The seed and the hail, of impossible ? are an interesting ?
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Do you want to love me more?
Do you want to love me more?
For love is the breath
If water and wind is cursed by the same thing that nurtured its shame
Is it worth all the work?
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Have you failed to feel delight?
Have you failed to feel delight?
Instead of the love, lived tired and lost, have you left it at last
Where it floundered its death with the language of ghosts?
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Do you want to be afraid?
Do you want to be afraid?
For life in the cage where where courage's mate runs deep in the wake
For the scariest things are not half as enslaved

I saw three ships come sailin' in
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
I saw three ships come sailin' in
On Christmas day in the morning
And what was in those ships all three
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
And what was in those ships all three
On Christmas day in the morning
The Virgin Mary and Christ were there
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
The Virgin Mary and Christ were there
On Christmas day in the morning
Well, I played terrible

when your heirloom's wilted brown
when the devils pushing down
when your morning has a sound
and you hesitate to laugh
how quickly will your joy pass?
how quickly will your joy pass?
and when you walk inside i feel the door
i'll never let it push your arms no more
and when your legs give out just lie right down
and i will kiss you till your breath is found
and when you walk inside i feel the door
i'll never let it push your arms no more
so do you think i came to fight?
and do i always think i'm right?
oh no, i never meant to be, opposed to anyone this time!
oh no, i only meant to be, a friend to everyone this time!
and when you walk inside i feel the door
i'll never let it push your arms no more
and when your legs give out just lie right down
and i will kiss you till your breath is found
and when you walk inside i feel the door

Like the lantern on a tree
Your burden bright as weary be
Periwig on parakeet
You're God's great paramour and sweet
I'm happy, I'm happy
Your birthday brings a pardoning
I'm happy, I'm happy
You're like a bird that will not be
Yours will number, yours will be
A paragon, a Paraclete
Keep your bed warm, keep your humor
Keep your proverbs short and sweet
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
That life is anxious, life is mean
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
A pair of shoes is what you need
I'm happy, I'm happy
Your birthday brings a pardoning
I'm happy, I'm happy

it's been a long long time since i memorized your face
it's been four hours now since i wandered through your place
and when i sleep on your couch i feel very safe
and when you bring the blankets i cover up my face
i do
love you
i do
love you
and when you play guitar i listen to the strings plus
the metal vibrates underneath your fingers
and when you crochet i feel mesmerized and proud
and don't say 'i love you' without saying it out loud
it's hard, so i won't say it at all
and i won't stay very long
but you are the life i needed all along
i think of you as my brother although that sounds dumb

I have called you children, I have called you son
What is their 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's any other way, I'll do anything for you
I was dressed embarrassment I was dressed in whine
If you had a part of me, will you take your time?
Even if I come back, even if I die
Is there some idea to replace my life?
Like a father to impress, like a mother's morning dress
If you ever make a mess, I'll do anything for you
I have called you preacher, I have called you son
If you have a father or if you haven't none
I'll do anything for you, I'll do anything for you
I'll do anything for you, I'll do anything for you
I did everything for you, I did everything for you
I did everything for you, I did everything for you

Something suddenly unclear
Someone suddenly my fear
My eyes demand like broken tears
The ladle odor spills on here
If you once knew how I love you
And my dreams colored eyes peeled
Every image to your face and [Incomprehensible]
And if you're happy I am, too
And if you're sleeping I'm with you
But you love someone else
But you want to be with someone else
And I can't believe how dumb I sound
And I put my face over the ground
But you love someone else
But you want to be with someone else
And I can't believe how dumb I sound

Our step mom 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 operator
Civil war skeletons in their graves
They came up clapping in the spirit of the aviator
The sound of the engines and the smell of the grain
We go riding on the abolition grain train
Steven A. Douglas was a great debater
But Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator
Chicken mobile with your rooster tail
I had my fill and I know how bad it feels
Stay awake and watch for the data
No small caterpillar, go congratulate her
Denominator, go Decatur, go Decatur
It's the great I am
Abominate her, go Decatur, why did we hate her?
It's the great I am
Denominator, go Decatur, anticipate her
It's the great I am
Appreciates her, appreciate her
Stand up and thank her
Stand up and thank her
It's the great I am
Stand up and thank her
It's the great I am
Stand up and thank her
It's the great I am

Our step mom, 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 operator
Civil war skeletons in their graves,
They came up clapping in the spirit of the aviator
The sound of the engines and the smell of the grain
We go riding on the abolition grain train
Steven A. Douglas was a great debater
But Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator
Chicken mobile with your rooster tail
I had my fill and I know how bad it feels
Stay awake and watch for the data
No small caterpillar, go congratulate her
Denominator, go Decatur, go Decatur
(It's the great I am)
Abominate her, go Decatur, why did we hate her?
(It's the great I am)
Denominator, go Decatur, anticipate her
(It's the great I am)
Appreciate her, appreciate her
Stand up and thank her
Stand up and thank her
(It's the great I am)
Stand up and thank her
(It's the great I am)
Stand up and thank her
(It's the great I am)

Oh my God
I can't believe it
What went wrong?
The human race, in it's place
Superstition
Man's religion
And conditioned
Mysteries incomplete
And the raven
With it's haven
Gods in graven
Girls and boys Illinois
Springfield
With it's freak and banter
Strike the cantor
God is dead, God is dead
Oh my God
I can't believe it
What went wrong?
The human race, in it's place
In religion
Superstition
Man's conditioned
Mysteries incomplete
Take it for a patient
Man I caught it
Patient is the kind
That gets you paid
Even if I had
Man, I got it
Seems I never
Had it anyway
Sometimes it may seem
Your best intentions
Take off with
A fever anyway
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
All computers go to heaven
If you think you got the vision
Put it in the conversation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
All computers go to heaven
If you think you got the vision
Put it in the conversation
I rejoice
In what I carry in my heart
It overwhelms
What a man
Great emancipation plans
And public transit
Clap your hands
Abraham
Oh religion
Superstition
Man's conditioned
Mysteries incomplete
Oh, the raven
With its haven
Gods in graven

Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it
Mount of Thy unchanging love
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Here there by Thy help I come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I?m constrained to be
Let that grace now, like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here?s my heart, oh, take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I?m fixed upon it

Oh, great intentions
I've got the best of interventions
But when the ads come
I think about it now
In my infliction
Entrepreneurial conditions
Take us to glory
I think about it now
Cannot conversations cull united nations?
If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients
Cannot all creation call it celebration?
Or united nation, put it to your head
Oh, great white city
I've got the adequate committee
Where have your walls gone?
I think about it now
Chicago, in fashion, the soft drinks, expansion
Oh, Columbia
From Paris, incentive, like Cream of Wheat invented
The Ferris Wheel
Oh, great intentions
Covenant with the imitation
Have you no conscience?
I think about it now
Oh, God of Progress
Have you degraded or forgot us?
Where have your laws gone?
I think about it now
Ancient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific
Typically terrific, busy and prolific
Classical devotion, architect promotion
Lacking in emotion think about it now
Chicago, the New Age, but what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?
Oh, Columbia
Amusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures
Like the Ferris Wheel
Cannot conversations cull united nations?
If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients
Columbia
I cried myself to sleep last night
And the ghost of Carl, he approached my window
I was hypnotized, I was asked
To improvise on the attitude, the regret of a thousand centuries of death
Even with the heart of terror and the superstitious wearer
I am riding all alone, I am writing all alone
Even in my best condition, counting all the superstition
I am riding all alone, I am running all alone
And we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines
We were asked at the attitudes they reminded us of death
Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated
Are you writing from the heart? Are you writing from the heart?
Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level
Are you writing from the heart? Are you writing from the heart?
And I cried myself to sleep last night
For the Earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me
Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated
Are you writing from the heart? Are you writing from the heart?
Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level

I fell in love again
All things go, all things go
Drove to Chicago
All things know, all things know
We sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
I drove to New York
In the van, with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
All things go
If I was crying
In the van, with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go

I fell in love again
All things go, all things go
Drove to Chicago
All things know, all things know
We sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
I drove to New York
In the van, with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
All things go
If I was crying
In the van, with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go

I fell in love again
All things go, all things go
Drove to Chicago
All things know, all things know
We sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
I drove to New York
In the van, with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
All things go
If I was crying
In the van, with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go

I fell in love again
All things go, all things go
Drove to Chicago
All things know, all things know
We sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
I drove to New York
In a van with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
If I was crying
In the van with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
(I made a lot of mistakes)
All things know, all things know
(I made a lot of mistakes)
You had to find it
(I made a lot of mistakes)
All things go, all things go

Such a shame that I can't get over this
Boot the acts of wrong and roll again
Such a satyr mind will close again
Watching every ray turning again
And I close my eyes to everything you rearranged
And I close my mind to everything you've kept the same
Boot the acts of wrong and roll again
Cannot keep you in my bed again
Link of every time you need your space again
When the hairline breaks
[Incomprehensible]

Goldenrod and the 4H stone
The things I brought you
When I found out you had cancer of the bone
Your father cried on the telephone
And he drove his car into the navy yard
Just to prove that he was sorry
In the morning through the window shade
When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade
I could see what you were reading
All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications you could do without
When I kissed you on the mouth
Tuesday night at the Bible study
We lift our hands and pray over your body
But nothing ever happens
I remember at Micheal's house in the living room
When you kissed my neck
And I almost touched your blouse
In the morning at the top of the stairs
When your father found out what we did that night
And he told me you were scared
Oh, the glory, when you ran outside
With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied
And you told me not to follow you
Sunday night when I cleaned the house
I found the card where you wrote it out
With the pictures of your mother
On the floor at the Great Divide
With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied
I'm crying in the bathroom
In the morning when you finally go
The nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window
In the morning, in the winter shade
On the first of March, on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing
All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications when I see his face
In the morning in the window
Oh, the glory when He took our place
And He took my shoulders and He shook my face

Oh, stop thinking of tomorrow, don't stop thinking of today
You're not getting any younger, you've got nothing to explain
You've got resolutions, you've got resolutions
Fastening in your wake, fastening in your wake
Take instead the high tide, take instead the high tide
At the man-made lake, at the man-made lake
It may take a while, it may take a while
It may take all day, it may take all day
All the implications, all the implications
At the man-made lake, at the man-made lake
Oh, stop thinking of tomorrow, don't stop thinking of today

Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
Was blind but now I see
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come
'Tis grace that brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me home
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing God's praise

If I am alive this time next year
Will I have arrived in time to share?
Mine is about as good this far
I'm still applied to what you are
And I am joining all my thoughts to you
And I'm preparing every part for you
I heard from the trees a great parade
And I heard from the hills a band was made
Will I be invited to the sound?
Will I be a part of what you've made?
And I am throwing all my thoughts away
And I'm destroying every bet I've made
And I am joining all my thoughts to you

One mother rises, pulling the sheets from the grill
All the disguises, wandering stars once she did
All the king's horns, all the kings men, saddled and [Incomprehensible] raise the dead
Only an infant, He came to raise up the dead
Wandering wise men what did you bring to his bed
Shameless surprises, incense to bring to the dead
Nothing is wrong, it's what she did, all the king's horns and kings men
Nothing is wrong, it's what she did, all the king's horns and kings men
Nothing is wrong, it's what she did, all the king's horns raise the dead

Righteous men of the earth
Oh, have you been patients
I suppose our thoughts about United Nations
Adlai, Adlai
What did you say
And what is the answer?
Adlai, Adlai
What did he say
And what is the answer?
1952, the heart was not your master
The accident you threw
Would carry with your laughter
Evidence, evidence
I've heard of it
And what is the answer?
Evidence, evidence
I've heard of it
And what is the answer?
Adlai, Adlai
[Incomprehensible]
And where is your answer?
Adlai, Adlai
What did you say

Like it's killing me
It's kidding me around
This bite, you bit on me
You put on me a gown
That fits me like a quarter door
That hits me like a sound
It's like you shut on me
Or shouldn't be around
Like the fennel seed
The funny gene you found
I like the man-o-weeds
The man-o-wars abound
That fits me like a quarter door
That hits me like a sound
I might just win a war
A matador around
There's still nothing I can say to change
My news for you
There's still nothing, you can do to exchange
My dues to you
Like you fit on me
To bit on me a bound
This life that's shut on me
That shouldn't be the grounds
To emulate an epicene
To elevate a sound
This life, a winner needs
A winner needs a wand
Never want to blame you
Bound you, blame me
Never want the blame you bound
Never want to blame you
Bound me, blame you
Never want the fame you found
And where's the same
And where's the strong
And where's the guard

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