to be alone with you Sufjan Stevens

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

There's A World Sufjan Stevens

There’s a world you’re living in No one else has your part All God’s children in the wind Take it in and blow real hard Look around it, have you found it?

Death With Dignity Sufjan Stevens

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

Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid) Sufjan Stevens

It\'s the same outside Driving to the riverside I pretend to cry Even if I cried alone I forgot the start Use my hands to use my heart Even if I died alone Even if I died alone Since the first

Eugene Sufjan Stevens

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 me to swim, he couldn't quite say my first

Shit Talk Sufjan Stevens

No more fighting No more talking shit Do as I say not as I give up Not as I’ve failed to live In the future there will be A terrible cost For all that we’ve left undone Deliver me from everything I’

John My Beloved Sufjan Stevens

[Verse 1] Are we to speak, first day of the week Stumbling words at the bar Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries Long Island kindness and wine Beloved of John, I get it all wrong I read you for some kind

Fourth of July Sufjan Stevens

The evil it spread like a fever ahead It was night when you died my firefly What could I have said to raise you from the dead Oh could I be the sky on the Fourth of July Well you do enough talk My little

Javelin (To Have And To Hold) Sufjan Stevens

Searching through snow For the javelin I had not Meant to throw right at you For if it had hit its mark There’d be blood in the place Where you stood It’s a terrible thought To have and hold It’s a

So You Are Tired Sufjan Stevens

So you are tired of us So rest your head Turning back fourteen years Of what I did and said So you are breathing disaster I did what I was told But I was a man born invisible Was it something I said

Sister Sufjan Stevens

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

All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands Sufjan Stevens

If I am alive this time next year will I have arrived in time to share?

In The Devil's Territory Sufjan Stevens

Be still and know your sign The beast will arrive in time We stayed a long, long time We stayed a long, long time To see you To beat you To see you At last I saw the dragons drying I saw the witches whine

My Red Little Fox Sufjan Stevens

I drink ’til it’s lost Drinking words within That spin down Pentecost Kiss me with the fire of gods Just say what you want Say it out within Without that funny little cough Simple minded, simple talk

The Only Thing Sufjan Stevens

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

Should Have Known Better Sufjan Stevens

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

He Woke Me Up Again Sufjan Stevens

He was, he was in the churchyard My father was in the first part He came, he came to my bedroom But I was asleep And he woke me up again to say...

The Predatory Wasp of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us Sufjan Stevens

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

Blue Bucket of Gold Sufjan Stevens

1, 2, 3 Oooo My blue bucket of gold Friend, why don’t you love me?

A Running Start Sufjan Stevens

If I imagine myself peaceful On the fire escape Head first, my hands inside my T-shirt, as we run away So now we have a running start My body moves in mystic ways I cross my arms to shield my heart

Free Man In Paris Sufjan Stevens

"The way I see it," he said "You just can't win it..

All Of Me Wants All Of You Sufjan Stevens

You’re not the one to talk things through You checked your texts while I masturbated Manelich, I feel so used Found myself on Spencer’s Butte Traced your shadow with my shoe Empty outline changed my view

Will Anybody Ever Love Me? Sufjan Stevens

Chase away my heart and heartache Run me over, throw me over, cast me out Find a river running to the west wind Just above the shoreline You will see a cloud Tie me to a tiny wooden raft Burn my body

Happy Birthday Sufjan Stevens

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

Size Too Small Sufjan Stevens

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?

Drawn to the Blood Sufjan Stevens

I’m drawn to the blood The flight of a one-winged dove How? How did this happen? How? How did this happen? The strength of his arm My lover caught me off guard How? Head of a rabbit How?

Everything That Rises Sufjan Stevens

Can you lift me up to a higher place?

Seven Swans Sufjan Stevens

We didn't sleep too late There was a fire in the yard All of the tress were in light They had no faces to show I saw a sign in the sky Seven swans, seven swans, seven swans I heard a voice in my mind I

Goodbye Evergreen Sufjan Stevens

Goodbye, Evergreen You know I love you But everything heaven-sent Must burn out in the end I promised you Just as you were in my dream Now let me off easy And I’ll slip down through the drain To release

No Shade in the Shadow of The Cross Sufjan Stevens

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

The Transfiguration Sufjan Stevens

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

Genuflecting Ghost Sufjan Stevens

seems so simple anymore Rest assured, words come easy Insecure, love and please me Sacred word, bind me, insult As I praise your name Now we dance in our catastrophe Ramparts in the sky That flash with

The Dress Looks Nice On You Sufjan Stevens

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 And

Carrie & Lowell Sufjan Stevens

Carrie surprised me Erebus on my back My lucky charm Carried by stones Fairyland all around us Like a dead horse Sign of your children’s fever Carrie, come home (Thorazine’s friend) Holding your hands with

A Good Man Is Hard To Find Sufjan Stevens

Once in the backyard, she was once like me She was once like me Twice when I killed them, they were once at peace They were once like me Hold to your gun, man and put off all your peace Put off all the

Alone April Stevens

Alone, alone with a sky of romance above Alone, alone on a night that was meant for love There must be someone waiting Who feels the way I do Who ever you are, are you, are you Alone, alone on this

The Seer\'s Tower Rosie Thomas & Sufjan Stevens

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

Oh Julie Shakin' Stevens

Whoa, whoa Julie, if you love me truly, do you want me, Julie, to be, be your very own? Julie, love me only, Julie, don't be lonely, 'cause I want you only to be, to be my very own.

True Love Shakin' Stevens

Suntanned, windblown Honeymooners at last alone Feeling far above par, oh, how lucky we are While I give to you and you give to me True love, true love So, on and on it will always be True love

Focus Ring Denison Witmer, Sufjan Stevens

Are you an artist? Are you an engineer? Does the world feel straight Or did things get weird? Anything at all Anything at all you need Do you live your life in the center of a crowd?

Here Comes My Baby (Stereo Version) Cat Stevens

In the midnight moonlight I'll be walking a long and lonely mile. And every time I do, I keep seeing this picture of you.

Once Upon A Poolside (feat. Sufjan Stevens) The National

you said to me?

HERE COMES MY BABY Cat Stevens

In the midnight moonlight I'll be walking a long and lonely mile And every time I do I keep seeing this picture of you Here's comes my baby here she comes now And it comes as no surprise to me

If I Laugh Cat Stevens

'Cause if I laugh just a little bit Maybe I can forget the chance That I didn't have to know you And live in peace, in peace 'Cause if I laugh just a little bit Maybe I can forget the plans that

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Cat Stevens

People, do you understand me now, If sometimes I feel a little mad Don't you know no one alive can Always be an angel When things go wrong I seem a little sad But I'm just a soul whose intentions are

Drywood Cat Stevens

to go And you stand alone Know that there's just one place to be And it's in your soul, oh Like drywood takes to fire the truth will come to you Like streams that seek the ocean they will find ways

The Beloved Cat Stevens

"His wisdom flowed from Heaven's Book Just like threaded pearls Just like threaded pearls He left his self to flee to God And God sent him back to us He was born to be the beloved A will of the Divine

Where Are You Cat Stevens

I know I think a lot but somehow it just doesn't help it only makes it worse The more I think The more I know the more it hurts With only solitude to meet me like a friend oh, where are you?

Where Are You (Stereo Version) Cat Stevens

I know I think a lot but somehow it just doesn't help it only makes it worse The more I think The more I know the more it hurts With only solitude to meet me like a friend oh, where are you where are you

Two Fine People cat stevens

Now that I've passed your test, how can I prove to you baby, I'll never let you down? If I lead you around, I'm sorry, but I never meant to worry you, no.