Lyrics Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

Exploding Whale

I'm Aporia'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 mild ambition

Give everything you've got

Jump the Fosbury flop with intention

Pursue your invention

As something of worth

The thing I most regret

Is having to repress what I'm feeling

While expressing delight as a myth

Embrace the epic fail

Of my exploding whale

Poison or powdered milk (poison or powdered milk)

Paralyzed as it took (paralyzed as it took)

Premonition (what is going on?)

Give everything you've got

Before your life is caught in conditions

Be the first of its victims

The foot of a hare

Action or consequence (action or consequence)

My unyielding defense (my unyielding defense)

Superstition (what is going on?)

My attempts to obscure

The wonders of this world

Be it fortune

Or faith in distortion

The patron of prayer

The thing I most resent

Is having to consent to illusion

While confessing distress with my fist

Will history prevail?

My exploding whale

What of a dream deferred

My appeal in reverse

Apparition

Embrace the epic fail

Of my exploding whale