Fourth of July (April Base Version) - 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 hawk why do you cry

Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn

Or the Fourth of July

We're all gonna die"

Sitting at the bed with the halo at your head

Was it all a disguise like junior high

Where everything was fiction future and prediction

Now where am I

My fading supply

"Did you get enough love my little dove

Why do you cry

And I'm sorry I left but it was for the best

Though it never felt right

My little Versailles"

The hospital asked "Should the body be cast"

Before I say goodbye my star in the sky

Such a funny thought to wrap you up in cloth

Do you find it all right my dragonfly

"Shall we look at the moon my little loon

Why do you cry

Make the most of your life while it is rife

While it is light

Well you do enough talk

My little hawk why do you cry

Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn

Or the Fourth of July

We're all gonna die"

We're all gonna die

We're all gonna die