Should Have Known Better (Live) - 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 trust my feelings

I waited for the remedy

When I was three three maybe four

She left us at that video store

Oh be my rest be my fantasy

Oh be my rest be my fantasy

I'm light as a feather

I'm bright as the Oregon breeze

My black shroud

Frightened by my feelings

I only wanna be a relief

No I'm not a go getter

The demon had a spell on me

My black shroud

Captain of my feelings

The only thing I wanna believe

When I was three and free to explore

I saw her face on the back of the door

Be my rest be my fantasy

Be my rest be my fantasy

I should have known better

Nothing can be changed

The past is still the past

The bridge to nowhere

I should have wrote a letter

Explaining what I feel that empty feeling

Don't back down concentrate on seeing

The breakers in the bar the neighbor's greeting

My brother had a daughter

The beauty that she brings illumination

Don't back down there is nothing left

The breakers in the bar no reason to live

I'm a fool in the fetter fool in the fetter

Rose of Aaron's beard where you can reach me

Don't back down nothing can be changed

Cantilever bridge the drunken sailor

My brother had a daughter brother had a daughter

The beauty that she brings illumination illumination

Illumination