Sufjan Stevens

[fox69]

"Blue Bucket Of Gold"

"Blue Bucket Of Gold"


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 extol
Friend, the fables delight me
My blue bucket of gold
Lord, touch me with 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

 

[fox69]

"Booty Call"
(performed by Sisyphus)

"Booty Call"
(performed by Sisyphus)



[Serengeti:]
Read it, cheat it, do you want to beat it?
Do you ever think a motherfucker eat it?
Feed it, stampede it, don't cheat it
Is it one of those things at the rodeo bar where you say you don't delete it?
I don't ever want to say I don't believe it
Get your arms untied, can you open real wide?
I don't ever want to say I'm undefeated
Can you run on your own?
Can you huddle with the Capricorn?
Are you still afraid of the storm?
Do you want to make a porn?
(Nah)
What day, what month were you born?
Me, I'm a Cancer
Got all the answers
Catch me on the flip, I'm a motherfucking dancer
Beat it, don't tweet it, cheat it
Feed it, put it in your mouth, eat it
Got a taste in my mouth, can I go to your house?
It's a little bit south of the city
Do you really have a kitty?
Talk to me lover, can you tell me what's your name?
Beauty, computy let me see that booty
Let me be your call of duty
Tell me heart
"Get it off I don't want to get sauced"
Do you want to be my lover?
Do you want to be discovered?
Like Venus
Have you seen it?
Can you dream it?
(Yeah)
Do you really think I need it?
Beam me up Scotty, your a motherfucking genius
Do you really want to eat it?
Stop
Why are you acting all defeated?
Did you put your heart in a boy who beat it?
I've got a magazine, a machine gun
I'm going to get you, I know I got one
Boom
In the backseat
Where I'm going to meet it
And beat it
And greet it
Unseated
I don't ever want to be a fucking peanut
I may be the cleanest, meet me in the Zenith
I'll never ever let nothing come between us
Hurricane hunger, check out the thunder
GIRL
(Shit)
We ain't getting any younger
Go read it, don't treat it like a Phoenix
Burn where the baby goes, tell me about them other boys
Do they love you like a Playboy? Or a Gameboy?
Here's my crescendo, put away Nintendo
We don't need no curtains on the window
Let me see your banks, let me see your books
Let me see your legs, let me see your hooks
Sing an opera, candelabra
Imma get a condom, put it on my monster
Wanna see my light show?
I can tell you want to go
Boom

Imma kiss you like a bubble in the brooks [x4]

 

[fox69]

"Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light"

"Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light"


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

 

[fox69]

"Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella"

"Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella"


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 now
The Christ child to see

You will find him
Asleep in the manger
Quietly come
Whisper softly

Hush, hush
Peacefully now he slumbers
Hush, hush
Peacefully now he sleeps

 

[fox69]

"Calm It Down"
(performed by Sisyphus)

"Calm It Down"
(performed by Sisyphus)



[Serengeti:]
All right
When you feel
Like you just can't stop
Jumping
And bumping
When you feel
Like you just can't stop
Sending telegram
After telegram
And when you feel like throwing (All right)
All your books in the air
You need to catch it
Just catch it
When you feel
Like you just can't stop (Can't stop)
Twisting and turning
And burning shit (wait a second, wait a second)

[Hook:]
You need to calm it down
Calm it down
You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down
Calm it down
You need to calm it down
Calm it down
Calm it down
Calm it down
Calm it down
You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down

[Segue:]
C-c-c-c-c-c-calm it down
C-c-c-c-c-c-calm it down
C-c-c-c-c-c-calm it down
C-c-c-c-c-c-

[Serengeti:]
And when you feel (Like what?)
Like you just can't stop (Why's that? Why's that?)
Chasing your dreams
Impossible dreams
Impossible dreams
And when you feel
Like driving your car (Nope, nope)
Into a telephone pole
Just stop it
You got it (Hit the brakes)
And when you feel (Come on)
Like fucking shit up (Yeah)
Let's fuck shit up
Let's fuck shit up
Let's fuck shit up (See what happens if...)
And when you feel (How do you feel?)
Like you just can't stop (My bad)
Talking shit about each other
All the time
All the time

[Hook:]
You need to calm it down (Calm it down)
Calm it down (You need to calm it down)
You need to calm it down (You need to calm it down)
You need to calm it down (Calm it down)
You need to calm it down (Calm it down)
Calm it down (Yo, take it down)
You need to calm it down (You need to calm it down)
Calm it down (Just take it easy)
You need to calm it down
Calm it down
Calm it down
Calm it down
Calm it down
You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down

[Bridge:]
When your fists don't fly (Yeah, calm it down)
When your grips don't got (OK, calm it down)
When your twerps don't tweak (You gotta calm it down)
When your perps don't peep (All right, calm it down)
When your hips don't dip (Yeah, calm it down)
And the kicks don't hit (Calm it down)
When your ships don't ship (OK, calm it down)
When your life don't life (Just calm it down)
When your mix don't match (How about calming down?)
When your rips don't patch (Take it easy)
When your keys don't lock (Just relax)
When your beats don't knock (OK, OK, yeah)
When your dogs don't bite (Calm it down)
When your bull don't fight (Just take it easy)
When your time stands still (Just calm it down)
Can you tell me how you feel? (Just)

[Sufjan Stevens (Serengeti):]
I'm on my own two feet
But I'm not standing upright
Mine is the pressure
Mine is the pain
(You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down)
Was it the drugs I take?
(You need to calm it down)
Was it ambitious outbreak?
(You need to calm it down)
Mine is the fury
Mine is the gain
(You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down)
Shall I account for peace?
(You need to calm it down)
Shall I resist it my way?
(You got to calm it down)
Mine is the glory (You got to calm it down)
Mine is the praise (You got to calm it down)
(You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down
You need to calm it down
Calm it down)
Now that I feel that shame
I've got every reason to persuade (Calm it down)
Mine is the problem (You got to calm it down)
Mine is the pain (You got to calm it down)

[Son Lux:]
I'm on my own two feet
But I'm not standing upright
Mine is the pressure
Mine is the pain
Was it the drugs I take?
Was it ambitious outbreak?
Mine is the fury
Mine is the gain
Shall I account for peace?
Shall I resist it my way?
Mine is the glory
Mine is the praise
Now that I feel the shame
I've got every reason to persuade
Mine is the problem
Mine is the pain

 

[fox69]

"Carlyle Lake"

"Carlyle Lake"


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 day
All the implications
At the man-made lake
Oh stop thinking of tomorrow...

 

[fox69]

"Carol Of St. Benjamin The Bearded One"

"Carol Of St. Benjamin The Bearded One"


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
And in my heart and in my spirit I believe
The draft beneath the doorframe comes to challenge me
This is a matter of life

Oh, be kind to me
Oh, Benjamin who
Keeps his hands inside his sleeves
And in my heart and in my spirit I can read
The way he brushed his beard against the cedar tree
Keeping his eyes upon me

I can see you there
Oh, in the snowbank
With a snowman at your side
And in my heart and in my spirit I can see
The things you want in life you have to really need

 

[fox69]

"Carrie & Lowell"

"Carrie & Lowell"


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

Under the pear tree
Shadows and light conspiring
Covered bridge, I scream
Cottage Grove shade invite me

I will bow down (Dido’s lament)
Lord of the ancient waters
From the backyard (as far as she went)
Carrie surprised me
Erebus on my back
My lucky charm

Carried by stones
Fairyland all around us
Like a dead horse
Sign of your children’s fever

Carrie, come home
(Thorazine’s friend)
Holding your hands with Opai
Like a dead horse
(Shall we ascend)
Flight of the mayfly
Ephemera on my back
She breaks my arm

 

[fox69]

"Casimir Pulaski Day"

"Casimir Pulaski Day"


2, 3, 4

Goldenrod and the 4H 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 into the Navy yard
Just to prove that he was sorry

In the morning, through the window shade
When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade
I could see what you were reading

All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications you could do without
When I kissed you on the mouth

Tuesday night at the Bible study
We lift our hands and pray over your body
But nothing ever happens

I remember at Michael's house
In the living room when you kissed my neck
And I almost touched your blouse

In the morning, at the top of the stairs
When your father found out what we did that night
And you told me you were scared

All the glory when you ran outside
With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied
And you told me not to follow you

Sunday night when I cleaned the house
I found the card where you wrote it out
With the pictures of your mother

On the floor at the great divide
With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied
I am crying in the bathroom

In the morning when you finally go
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window

In the morning in the winter shade
On the first of March, on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing

All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications when I see his face
In the morning in the window

All the glory when he took our place
But he took my shoulders and he shook my face
And he takes and he takes and he takes

 

[fox69]

"Chicago (Acoustic Version)"

"Chicago (Acoustic Version)"


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

I drove to New York
In a van with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind

You came to take us,
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mind set
All things know, all things know
You had to find it

All things go, all things go

All things go

If I was crying,
In the van with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes

You came to take us,
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mind set
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go