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

Free Man In Paris Sufjan Stevens

Everybody's in it for their own gain You can't please 'em all There's always somebody calling you down I do my best And I do good business There's a lot of people asking for my time They're trying

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?

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

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

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?

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?

The Transfiguration Sufjan Stevens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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?

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 Only Thing Sufjan Stevens

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 found In a

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

My Red Little Fox Sufjan Stevens

broken Dreams come save me Kiss me like the wind Now I sing it won’t you Kiss me from within Now I sing it won’t you Kiss me like the wind that flows within your veins Let’s not be for want Wanting is

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

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

3, 4 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

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

Genuflecting Ghost Sufjan Stevens

Give myself as a sacrifice Genuflecting ghost I kiss the floor Rise, my love, show me paradise Nothing seems so simple anymore Rest assured, words come easy Insecure, love and please me Sacred word,

Blue Bucket of Gold Sufjan Stevens

Once the myth has been told The lens deforms it as lightning Raise your right hand Tell me you want me in your life Or raise your red flag Just when I want you in my life Search for things to extol Friend

Hard Headed Woman Cat Stevens

I'm looking for a hard headed woman, One who will take me for myself, And if I find my hard headed woman, I won't need nobody else, no, no, no.

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

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

Treat Her Right Shakin' Stevens

I wanna tell you a story Every man oughta know If you want a little lovin You gotta start real slow She's gonna love you tonight now If you just treat her right now Squeeze her real gentle Gotta make her

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

Don't make this any harder Everybody's waiting Walk-on's almost over Teenagers on ice Try to keep my distance Talking of forgiveness Once upon a poolside Underneath the lights What was the worried thing

Music Cat Stevens

Yesterday I was on the edge hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find

On The Road To Find Out cat stevens

me on the way to get there So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out So much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out In the end I'll know but on the way I wonder through descending

But I Might Die Tonight Cat Stevens

Don't want to work away Doin' just what they all say. Work hard, boy, and You'll find One day you'll have a job like mine. 'Cause I know for sure Nobody should be that poor.

Wild World cat stevens

But if you wanna leave take good care, hope you have a lot of nice things to wear, but then a lot of nice things turn bad out there.

Pink Shoe Laces Dodie Stevens

Now I've got a guy and his name is Dooley He's my guy and I love him truly He's not good lookin', heaven knows But I'm wild about his crazy clothes He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces A polka

Everything Is Beautiful (모든 것은 아름답다) Ray Stevens

own way Like a starry summer night On a snow covered winter's day And everybody's beautiful in an own way Under God's Heaven The world's gonna find the way There is none so blind As He who will not see

It's Raining Shakin' Stevens

It's raining so hard looks like it's goin' to rain all night and this is the time I love to be holding you tight. But I guess I'll have to accept the fact that you're not here.

A Good Man Is Hard To Find Brenda Lee

A good man is hard to find You always get the other kind Just when you think that he's your pal You look for him and find Him fooling around some other gal Then you rave, you even pray To see him laying

Focus Ring Denison Witmer, Sufjan Stevens

Anything at all Anything at all you need Do you live your life in the center of a crowd? Do you stand off to the side just to watch how things play out?

A Good Man Is Hard To Find Bruce Springsteen

A Good Man Is Hard To Find It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh It's raining in Saigon Snow's fallin' all across the Michigan Line Well she sits by the lights of the Christmas Tree With the radio softly