Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan the Great Lake State
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Album Review
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- Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
- Marching Band (Bonus Track)
- Pickerel Lake (Bonus Track)
- The Upper Peninsula
- Holland
- Romulus
- Alanson, Crooked River
- They Also Mourn Who do Not Wear Black (For the Homeless in Muskegon)
- Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
- Vito's Ordination Song
- Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
- Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
- For The Windows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti
- Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)
- Tahquamenon Falls
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Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan the Great Lake State Lyrics
Sufjan Stevens - Flint Lyrics
It's the same outside
Driving to the riverside
I pretend to cry
Even if I cried alone
Sufjan Stevens - All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace! Lyrics
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
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Sufjan Stevens - For The Widows In Paradise; For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti Lyrics
I have called you children, I have called you son
What is their to answer if I'm the only one?
Morning comes in paradise, morning comes in light
Still I must obey, still I must invite
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Sufjan Stevens - Say Yes! to M!ch!gan! Lyrics
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
Sufjan Stevens - The Upper Peninsula Lyrics
I live in America with a pair of pay less shoes
The upper peninsula and the television news
And I've seen my wife at the K-Mart
In strange ideas we live apart
Sufjan Stevens - Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! Lyrics
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Sufjan Stevens - Romulus Lyrics
Once when our mother called
She had a voice of last yearâs cough
We passed around the phone
Sharing a word about Oregon
Sufjan Stevens - Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie Lyrics
Oh, sleeping bear
Ran to the top and got scared
Of what I could see
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Sufjan Stevens - They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black Lyrics
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
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Sufjan Stevens - Oh God, Where Are You Now? Lyrics
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
Sufjan Stevens - Vito's Ordination Song Lyrics
I always knew you
In your mothers arms
I have called your name
I have an idea
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