Exploding Whale - Sufjan Stevens

I'm nobody'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 it's 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