Sufjan Stevens

It's part of the act the 50 states pack up your bags it's never too late from alabama to arkansas follow alaska say what you saw swim in the ocean maryland may then massachusetts what a great place go to new hampshire missouri too it's not virginia...

La la la, la la, la la Have a holly jolly Christmas It's the best time of the year I don't know if there'll be snow But have a cup of cheer Have a holly jolly Christmas And when you walk down the street Say hello to friends you know And everyone you meet Ho...

Oh, I'm a little lost Without you Let me be an understatement And I hope I've paid the cost To let a day go on by And not call on you 'Cause I'm so busy, I'm so busy Thinking about kissing you 'Cause I'm so busy, I'm so busy Thinking about touching...

Such a shame that I can't get over this Put the axle on and roll again Such a Saturn eye will close again Watching every ring turning again And I close my eyes To everything you've rearranged And I close my mind To everything you've kept the same Put...

Everything You are Is everything we have You're the only good thing A sun came Burned our faces round 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...

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 l...

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 

Righteous men of the earth Oh, have you been patient I suppose our thoughts about United Nations Adlai, Adlai What did he say And what is the answer? 1952, the heart was not your master The accident you knew Would carry with your laughter Evidence,...

Well I have known you For just a little while But I feel I've known you I feel I've seen you When the Earth was split in fives And in your words, I Should let it out, I Would see you die But I'm a watcher I see it watch her It's in your afterlife...

Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended That we to judge thee have in hate pretended? By foes derided, by thine own rejected O most afflicted For me, kind Jesus, was thine incarnation Thy mortal sorrow, and thy life's oblation Thy death of anguish and thy bit...

Tomorrow you’ll see it through The clouded out disguises put you in the room And though I wandered out alone A thousand lights abounded on our home And I remember every sound it made The clouded out disguises and the grave So yeah I know I’m still...

To bear it down to be in flight, to bear it down to be in flight It wasn't about me it was only a stone in my shoe Then worries came to perch on us Impatience and a painted bust I kept you close to me close to my ear We set out once with folded shirt...

All good thoughts in spite of righteousness Is not the kind of thoughts in spite of greatness. Often not the State is advocation. If we form a power of recognition. Forget loss and perfect advocation. If it drops or stays in convocation. All we praise i...

Shall we beat this or celebrate it? 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 Now all of m...

One mother rises Pulling the sheets from the crib All the disguises Wandering stars, what she did All the kings horns, all the kings horns Saddled and worn Raise the dead Holy and infant He came to raise up the dead Wandering wisemen What did you br...

If I am alive this time next year, will I have arrived in time to share? And mine is about as good this far. And 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. And I heard from the trees...

I'm going down to Alphabet Street I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet I'm gonna talk so sexy She'll want me from my head to my feet (Yeah, she will) I'm gonna drive my daddy's Thunderbird A white rad ride, '66 ('67) so glam it's absurd I'm gonna...

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...

Arnica might take out the throes that I threw in my head Bruno, your wife shakes her bedclothes as she makes up the bed I’m tired of life; I’m tired of waiting for someone I’m tired of prices; I’m tired of waiting for something I have a right to know wha...

Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot And days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We'll take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne For auld lang syne, my dear For auld...

Ave Maria, gratia plena Maria, gratia plena Maria, gratia plena Ave, ave dominus Dominus tecum Benedictus tu in mulieribus Et benedictus Benedictus, dictus, dictus, fructus, ave fructus, ave dominus Ave Maria 

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head The stars in the sky looked down where he lay The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes, But little Lord Jesus, no crying...

I'll talk but I know you won't listen to me Oh, you wouldn't say it but you wanted to Don't look, don't walk away while I am speaking I'll take it, but I know it's not for taking The oneness someone of which you notice me I told you, do not follow what y...

Oh, no one else is happily Recklessly asking for more than What they may need I can't say what I need Oh, temper what you say if you've Nothing nice to say So my grandmother says to me With her heart on her sleeve So, sadly I left the door Open and I let the...

One time, this kid ate too much food, and the food started coming out of his stomach, out of his belly button, there was maggots coming out of his belly button. 

My blue bucket of gold Friend, why don’t you love me? 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 exto...

Oh, there is a house A wonderful lover A satisfied hole Hope isn't a word A sudden said brother And what do you care? And I'll take the pictures If you stay in bed I'll run down the park If you put up your head Don't put up your borderline Don't pu...

Break forth O beauteous heavenly light And usher in the morning Ye shepherds, shrink not with afright But hear the angel's warning This child now weak in infancy Our confidence and joy shall be The power of Satan breaking Our peace eternal making 

Bring a torch Jeanette, Isabelle Bring a torch Come swiftly and run Christ is born Tell the folk of the village Jesus is sleeping In his cradle Ah, ah Beatiful is the mother Ah, ah Beatiful is her Son Hasten now Good folk of the village Hasten...

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 Fastening in your wake Take instead the high tide At the man-made lake It may take a while It may take all d...

I can see you there Oh, in the snowbank With a snowman at your side In my heart and in my spirit I concede The things you want in life you have to really need This is a matter of life Only parents cry Oh, when they want to Show the world they're still alive...

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 U...

Golden rod and the 4-H 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 to the Navy yard Just to prove that he was sorry In the morning through the window shade When the...

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 thi...

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 thi...

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 thi...

Though I try to find my own way To make your Christmas face, your Christmas face Your holly hair and tinsel eyes My efforts will disgrace And at this hour a reason to stay up Making your Christmas face, your Christmas face To catch the snow that we should kno...

If I missed 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, or maybe I was right Like...

No travel plans, no shopping malls No candy canes, no Santa Claus For as the day of rest draws near It's just the two of us this year No silver bells or mistletoe We'll kiss and watch our TV show I'll come to you, I'll sing to you Like it's Christmas in the...

I'm a Christmas Unicorn, in a uniform made of gold With a billy-goat beard, and a sorcerer's shield, and mistletoe on my nose Oh, I'm a Christian holiday, I'm a symbol of original sin I've a pagan tree, and a magical wreath, and bow-tie on my chin Oh, I'm a...

Christmas is the time of year When the patrons and the panthers Come and commandeer Christian, put away your fuss With the tipping of the handlers As the pagans must I know for a century We were scrambling to assemble What a man believes I know for a time I l...

A break in the clouds is a break in my day Face the sun of my salvation As Hathaway Jones would have made it his own fate Fly by the wings of your creation On the top of your head, there is a poem The thought in my head, oh God only knows As everything...

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, ce...

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro Tie up your boots Jump off the ladder Pack up your clothes Nothing's the matter Mistletoe hangs up in the bedroom Your sister's bangs She cut them herself Santa is here Sleighbells are ringing Twenty-one elves They are all singing K-Mar...

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...

When the revenant came down We couldn't imagine what it was In the spirit of three stars The alien thing that took its form Then to Lebanon Oh, God The flashing at night, the sirens grow and grow Oh, history involved itself Mysterious shade that took i...

Lullay, Thou little tiny Child Bye, bye, lully, lullay Lullay, Thou little tiny Child Bye, bye, lully, lullay O sisters too, how may we do For to preserve this day This poor youngling for whom we sing Bye, bye, lully, lullay Herod, the king, in his raging Ch...

Oh my God I can't believe it What went wrong? The human race, in its place Superstition man's religion And conditioned mysteries incomplete And the raven with its haven Gods-in-graven Girls and boys Illinois Springfield with its freak and banter Stri...

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 b...

Our step mom we did everything to hate her She took us down to the edge of Decatur We saw the lion and the kangeroo 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 operat...

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 You are like that, like Demetriu...

This time of year you always disappear You tell me not to call You tell me not to call And when the door is closed you're wearing different clothes Or hiding in the paper pretending not to hear Inexpensive wine I buy it all the time You tell me take it...

1, 2, ready, go Ding-a-ling-a-ling Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling Baby Jesus is the king Jesus is the king-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling Lift your voice and sing Lift your voice and sing-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling As we wear the diamond ring Wear...

I know you won’t get very far With the back seat driver in the carpetbagger With the dagger heart grabber stuck in your car And the yard is grown to a hilt And the money spent money spent where it went Embarrassment, embarrassment to pay for the car An...

Do you see what I see? Do you see what I see? Do you see what I see? Do you see what I see? Said the night wind to the little lamb Do you see what I see? Way up in the sky little lamb Do you see what I see? A star, a star Dancing in the night With a t...

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? Head of a rabbit For my prayer has always been love What did I...

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 I can see the lot of life in you. Yes, I can...

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

Tell me what you saw in me And I’ll try to replicate it with a scene Mm-mmm If it troubles you to breathe Wait a moment; I could change the scenery Don’t carry on carrying efforts, no no, oh oh oh oh Somewhere there’s a room for each of us to grow And...

Light struck from the lemon tree What if I’d never seen hysterical light from Eugene? Lemon yoghurt, 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...

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 of June Lost my job And lost my room I pretend to try...

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...

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 hawk, why do you cry? Tell me what did you lea...

Desperate measures lead to death From the mouth of Gabriel Who died in his sleep when the world was a very big mess A very big mess; he saw too much From now on I will look away from every accident That may or may not come my way Saw you were talking up...

It's been a long, long time since I've memorized your face It's been four hours now since I've 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...

I know whatcha doing to me boy, You move so fast like a psychopathic color TV, With your Christmas bag and your jolly face, And the reindeer stompin' all over the place Take it easy, what ya gotta be so absurd? You make it sound like Christmas is a four-lette...

I know you want it I know you really want to get it right Have you forsaken, have you mistaken me for someone else? Saturday night you sleep with a rifle at your side Delivering speeches, delivering speeches left and right Follow those created deaths Fo...

Give a little love for a lonely man Whose purpose may have changed But I still feel the same All the colors of the past I realized, at last, I'm all alone, I'm all alone Give a little kiss toward my loneliness I couldn't see it past the burdens of my br...

"Oh, who is that? She looks good. What's your name?" "My name is Lauramechbaidumeinchbib Beautiful Lovely Lady. Did you hear what I said?" "Yeah, sure I did." "I am, uh, Chriskpalpidon." "Ah, you wanna know what my name is?" "What, big fella?" "Oh,...

La la, hey! It's Christmas... Good King Wenceslas looked out On the feast of Stephen When the snow lay round about Deep and crisp and even Brightly shone the moon that night Though the frost was cruel When a poor man came in sight Gath'ring winter fue...

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 beast. Paid a full of these, I wait for it...

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, your...

1, 2, and 1 2 3 4 Just this once for Christmas I want us all to be Like one great big happy Family Family Bam, bam bam, badadam bam bam 

Would it have been best to forget you Would it have been better for me And if I could write off your intentions Would you pretend you don't love me And I wish you a happy karma Christmas And I miss you my happy karma girl My karma girl Sometimes I think I'm...

Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light From now on our troubles will be out of sight Have yourself a merry little Christmas Make the Yuletide gay From now on our troubles will be miles away Here we are as in olden days Happy gold...

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: Halle Halle Hallelujah Holy Holy is the sound. And I hope, I hope you are tired out. And I know, I kno...

When your heirloom’s wilted brown When the devil’s pushing down When your mourning 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...

We can walk out after dark, Because it's Christmas time Colored lights glow from the park, Because it's Christmas time. And the bells on the reindeer sled say, It's Christmas time And the quilt on the back of the bed say, It's Christmas time I think about ho...

All the time we spent in bed Counting miles before we set Fall in love and fall apart Things will end before they start Sleeping on Lake Michigan Factories and marching bands Lose our clothes in summer time Lose ourselves to lose our minds In the summ...

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee There is a sign at the sight of theee, Merciful and mighty God in three Persons, God in three Persons, Blessed Trinity Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee, Tho...

How shall I fitly meet Thee And give Thee welcome due? The nations long to greet Thee And I would greet Thee too O Fount of light, shine brightly Upon my darken'd heart That I may serve Thee rightly And know Thee as Thou art 

I am Santa's helper, you are Santa's slave I am Santa's helper, you are Santa's slave I am Santa's helper, you are Santa's slave I am Santa's helper, you are Santa's slave I am Santa's helper, you are Santa's slave I am Santa's helper, you are Santa's slave...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas day, on Christmas day I saw three ships come sailing 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 shi...

Lover, will you look at me now? I'm already dead to you But I'm inclined to explain To you what I could not before Whatever you didn't do, what you couldn't say I am sorry that the worst has arrived For I deserve more For at least I deserve the respec...

To think that I would die this time Isolated in the room where the bed rises Photographic ordinary people are everywhere Extraordinary histories, ordinary histories, ordinary histories I'll find sleep, I'll find peace Or in death you'll sleep with me...

I’ll be home for Christmas You can plan on me Please have snow and mistletoe And presents on the tree Christmas Eve will find me Where the lovelight gleams I’ll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams I’ll be home for Christmas You can plan on me Please h...

And am I born to die To lay this body down And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown A land of deepest shade Unpierced by human thought The dreary regions of the dead Where all things...

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, I was freaking out because I want you to know My beloved, you are the lover of my impossible soul Woman, too, promise me yo...

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. We stayed a long, long time. But I'm...

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 ah Sing a carol to your mom Because she knows wha...

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...

Sister Jamila Tequila It can't go the bats and some wine He love her Like ever You're always a drunk bird to find My sister I missed her She's always a good friend of mine He let her I let her Too down and now I'm just fine She's always a...

Jason, you're the only one Jason, like a steady son Like that, you're the only one Take that, when the runner's come When the right dragon comes around When the knight horses burn the ground Jason, you're the only one Jason, like a steady son (You'r...

Dashing through the snow In a one horse open sleigh O'er the fields we go Laughing all the way Hahaha Bells on bob tails ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to ride and sing A sleighing song tonight Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh...

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 of poem Covered in lines, the fossils I find Have they no li...

His father was a drinker And his mother cried in bed Folding John Wayne's T-shirts When the swingset hit his head The neighbors they adored him For his humor and his conversation Look underneath the house there Find the few living things Rottin...

I would like to throw a field Yes, I would like to be a man I would serve the Kingdom's will Yes, I would enter to the end Blessed is the man who waits And blessed is the man who starts I believe in (page) Believe in (page) Believe in (page) Believe...

Oh Father Christmas, Come to us, come to us Perfect and with us, Come to us, come to us Oh Mother Mary, Celebrate, celebrate Brave sanctuary, Come to us, come to us Explorations end in Christ, Decorations left behind, Where will you go, where will you go, w...

Silver and gold, silver and gold Everyone wishes for it How do you measure its worth? Just by the pleasure it gives here on earth. Oh, I'm getting old Oh, I'm getting old Everyone wishes for youth How have I wasted my life? Trusting the pleasure it...

He took the stable Bred me to be a mare Made the brethren able Gave me a room I never asked him I never meant meant to stay He dressed the table Wore a dress to be my mare There's no pertinence When you never leave the stall He ran to other wars W...

Oh the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we've no place to go Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Oh it doesn't show signs of stopping And I've bought some corn for popping And the lights are turned way down low Let it sn...

Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates Behold, the King of glory waits The King of kings is drawing near The Savior of the world is here O blest the land, the city blest Where Christ the Ruler is confessed O happy hearts and happy homes To whom this King...

In the world that you would make up With unicorns and buffalo packs I know that you would wake up With the sunny side touching your back Is it the lonely man of Christmas? Coming up with theories on him Is it the lonely man of Christmas? He's riding in...

In the world that you would make up With unicorns and buffalo backs I hope that you could wake up With the sunny side touching your back Is it the lonely man of Christmas? I'm coming up with theories on him Is it the lonely man of Christmas? He's ridin...

Love yourself You are the one thing I needed Share of yourself Show me the things that You believe in Love, can you love yourself Show me everything every reason to believe in yourself Make a shelf Put all the things on that you believ...

Love yourself You are the one thing I needed Share of yourself Show me the things that You believe in Love, can you love yourself? Show me everything Every reason to believe in yourself Make a shelf Put all the things on That you believe in Love...

Oh, no, the rugged soul The great backyard and the cold North Pole I resent that Santa went and Left us in the Alamo Would you like to stay a while and dance with me? Would you like to wrap the gifts and have a drink? The only condition (I know the one) I've...

I'm not trying to go to bed with you I just wanna make out in my car And though I'm dying to Fall in love with you I just wanna make out in my car Love come to me Sprouting like the living tree Splendid in the stream of living water Driven like the Su...

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 fr...

One dark day the trees began a trumpet sound, trumpet sound We sat listening patiently, the sky was near and i felt the trembling motion we ran out to see the future, from the ground from the ground from the ground from the ground people died and peopl...

It's time to tango with the frisky, frosty Frosty Man He's got a temperature of negative degrees again He likes ice cream and Yo La Tengo with the jammin' pants You got to cool it with the hipster costly Frosty Man He's chillin', illin', thrillin' with the Mr....

Oh, to see without my eyes The first time that you kissed me Boundless by the time I cried I built your walls around me White noise, what an awful sound Fumbling by Rogue River Feel my feet above the ground Hand of God, deliver me Oh, oh woe-oh-woah i...

We had friends downstate When we drove we went to Canada If we were asked to stay I was brave I was brave I was brave From the top of the mountain You could see Lake Erie Niagara Falls From the top of the fountain I could see farther than anyone...

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...

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...

It's different now I think I wasn't older yet I wasn't wise, I guess Somewhere I lost whatever else I had I wasn't over you I see it run inside itself And then I called you out I'm not such older than I was I'm feeling so much righter now And then I...

O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! O come, Thou Day-Spring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine advent here Disperse the...

Oh holy night! The stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear Savior's birth! Long lay the world in sin and error pining Till he appear'd and the soul felt its worth. A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new and glorious mo...

Once a great place. Now a prison. All I can say. All I can do. People Mover: Bad Decision. From suburban. Now a prison. All I can say. All I can do. From the trembling walls. It's a great idea! Everything you want. It's a great idea! Once a great plac...

Oh God, hold me now Oh Lord, hold me now There's no other man who could raise the dead So do what you can to anoint my head Oh God, where are you now? Oh Lord, say somehow The devil is hard on my face again The world is a hundred to one again Would t...

Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed Where a mother laid her baby In a manger for His bed Mary was that mother mild Jesus Christ her little child He came down to earth from heaven Who is God and Lord of all And His shelter was a stable...

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...

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...

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 faithf...

A government has gone this far A covenant prepared to part Peace to me Peace to me Peace to me Peace to me Peace to me Peace to me Peace to me Peace to me If I'm alone in saying, "yes" I'll change my views and try my best Peace to me Peace to me...

Put the lights on the tree (Put them on the tree) Put the ribbon on the wreath (Put it on the wreath) Call your grandma on the phone (Call her on the phone) If she's living all alone (If she's all alone) Tell her Jesus Christ is here (Tell her He...

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 safe When the wall...

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 Yeah baby, I feed you rice pudding at...

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...

You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town! He's making a list He's checking it twice He's gonna find out Who's naughty or nice Santa Claus is coming to town! He sees you when you're sleepi...

I remember when my mother would get sick, she would vomit all over the kitchen. She would vomit on the tables and on the countertops, and in the refrigerator, and we called the dog, The dog would come in and slip on the vomit. (Instrumental) 

What's the worth of all the work of my hands? And the worst off on Lake Michigan Get in solid walls with the know-it-alls Get in trouble with Saul Bellow Get in solid walls with the know-it-alls Get in trouble with Saul Bellow Get in solid walls with wh...

Demonstrate I was raised from the start By a priest and the maid on the part. Still know what to wear on my back: Michigan! Ponshewaing! Cadillac! If I ever meant to go away I was raised, I was reaised In the place, in the place. Still I often thi...

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 will try, I will try, I will try. I...

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 Wh...

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...

Oh my friends I've Begun to worry right Where I should be grateful I should be satisfied Oh my heart I Would clap and dance in place With my friends I have so Much pleasure to embrace But my heart is Returned to sister winter But my heart is As co...

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. And I still owe you. Everyt...

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling Ring-ting-tingling too Come on, it's lovely weather For a sleigh ride together with you Outside the snow is falling And friends are calling "Yoo hoo" Come on, it's lovely weather For a sleigh ride together with you Giddy...

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 h...

I call you From the comet's cradle I found you Trembling by yourself When the night falls Lightly on your right-wing shoulder Wonderful know-it-all Slightly where the night gets colder Oh, conscience, Where will you carry me? I found you Star of te...

She's a superhuman girl she is Superwoman she is Superman's cousin she's got superpower lovin' she's got superpower eyes and see-through superhuman vision she's got superhuman thighs sexier than television she is superduper smart I like her for her...

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 Throwin...

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 s...

Positive Christmas energy, desperately seeking Santa, Take 3 Once in a while, you may think you see better than the others Scrambling around in the dark with your drum There is a time when young men must grow up and be brothers Are you afraid of growing too f...

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 Bethleh...

Praise the mountain and the rain All the gifts that still remain But the greatest gift of all And the law above all laws Is to love your friends and lovers To lay down your life for your brothers As you abide in peace So will your delight increase As...

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 kisse...

2, 3, 4 Suppose the world was not informed by real estate or power lines? The hidden river of my life, pursued by love The whispering stone, the valley ford, the candy corn, the spirit finds Abuse has left me on my side, a single stone I'm a walker, I'm...

Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum Rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum When we come...

It came upon the midnight clear That glorious sign of old Enraptured secret sign of fear In brave disguises Old shoes and thirty feet The prophet's sign of prophecy I resign to petty things Like angels bending on their knees Do you delight, do you d...

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 br...

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 found I...

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 Till the oracle said wander 

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 fathe...

Everything is lost, uh-oh But I know that you can take it to the Lord Everything you are, uh-oh Isn't all that you can gather for yourself Do you love a lot? Uh-oh Is it love that you just kiss to everyone? Is your loving lost? Uh-oh Is it strange that...

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...

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 bedr...

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...

Wake up, wake up, you sleepy red wolves Your time has come to be altered in stars From out of the red river you run Wagging your tails with your backs to the bark All the red stripes of the righteous will get you Yours will be feathered and fallow unfarm...

We wait in our beds Tight under the sheets Just peeking our heads We've waited for weeks I can't go to sleep I tried counting sheep It's coming so soon The sleigh in moon I'm holding my breath I can't keep it yet No, we won't forget We know that we...

Part I: "The Great Frontier" I count the days the Great Frontier Forgiving, faced the seventh year I stand in awe of gratefulness I can and call forgetfulness And when I, and when I call The Patient, the Patient fall The Spirit, the Carpenter Invites...

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...

I live in America With a pair of Payless shoes The upper penisula 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 inters...

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 avat...

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? Logan, Grant, and Ronald Reagan In the grave with Xylophagan Do you know the ghost community? Sound the horn, address the city (Who will save it? Dedic...

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 cl...

Tonya Harding, my star Well this world is a cold one But it takes one to know one And God only knows what you are Just some Portland white trash You confronted your sorrow Like there was no tomorrow While the rest of the world only laughed Triple...

If I was a different man If I had the blood in my e-e-e-eyes I could have read of your heart I could have read of your h-h-h-heart Now I'm lonely instead, I pick up a fight So pick up your battle and with love I want to see it There's too much riding o...

Up on the housetop reindeer pause Out jumps good old Santa Claus Down through the chimney with lots of toys All for the little ones, Christmas joys Who wouldn't go? Who wouldn't go? Oh, oh, oh, who wouldn't go? Who wouldn't go? First comes the stocking...

Vesuvius, I am here You are all I have Fire of fire, I'm insecure For it has 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 debt Vesuvius, are you ghost? Or th...

I have loved you for the last time Is it a video? Is it a video? I have touched you for the last time Is it a video? Is it a video? For the love, for laughter, I flew up to your arms Is it a video? Is it a video? For the love, for laughter, I flew up to...

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 ive 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...

As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake: Leviathan first hid in the deep where her children sleep She kept them hidden from the plague But have you heard the story of my mother’s fate? She left us in Detroit in the rain with a pillow case Fortune f...

1, 2, 3, 4 Haul out the holly Put up the tree before my spirit falls again Fill up the stocking I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now For we need a little Christmas, right this very minute Candles in the window, carols at the spinet Yes, we ne...

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 We three kings of Orient are Bearing gifts we travel afar Field and fountain, moor and mountain Following yonder star O Star of wonder, star of night Star with royal beauty bright Westward leading, still proceeding Guide us to thy Perfect Li...

We wish you a Merry Christmas We wish you a Merry Christmas We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Now bring us a figgy pudding Now bring us a figgy pudding Now bring us a figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer Good tidings we bring to you and yo...

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

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 in your house Put a mistletoe upon your mother's blouse If you see a...

What child is this who lays to rest On Mary's lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet While shepherds watch are keeping This, this is Christ the King Whom shepherds guard and angels sing Haste, haste to bring him love The Babe, the Son of...

I will love you I will love you with my whole heart I will love you with my whole heart I will love you baby I will love you with my whole heart I will love you with my whole heart Say you love me baby Say you love me with your whole heart Say you l...

Wolverine Homecoming queen Took the train To Pickerel Lake It's not your fault It's not your fault It's not your fault It's not your fault It's sold and bought It's sold and bought It's sold and bought It's sold and bought Take it in stride Tak...

A summer night I find a boat Tied to a tree A normal home She lost her string I'm 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 sw...

I took my lucky break and I broke it in two Put on my worried shoes My worried shoes And my shoes took me so many miles and they never wore out My worried shoes My worried shoes Doo doo doo doo doo My worried shoes I made a mistake and I never forgot...

The angel came and said its name But she could not keep from trembling The spirit went where it went Though it could not cede forgiveness And when it came to pass again Enterprising in its legend The government did all it could To be sure its power was given...

You are the blood flowing through my fingers All through the soil and up in those trees You are electricity and you're light You are sound itself and you are flight You are the blood flowing through my fingers All through the soil and up in those trees...