Sufjan Stevens

The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!

Sufjan Stevens

Illinois

5 MINUTES AND 23 SECONDS • JUL 04 2005

Lyrics
Thinking outrageously I write in cursive
I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor
Wearing three layers of coats and leg warmers
I see my own breath on the face of the door
Oh I am...
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Album tracklist

1
Concerning the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois
02:09
2
The Black Hawk War, Or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself In the Morning, Or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience But You're Going to Have to Leave Now, Or...
02:14
3
Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream
06:45
4
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
03:19
5
Jacksonville
05:24
6
A short reprise for Mary Todd, who went insane, but for very good reasons
00:47
7
Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step-Mother!
03:03
8
One last "Whoo-hoo!" for the Pullman
00:06
9
Chicago
06:04
10
Casimir Pulaski Day
05:53
11
To The Workers of The Rock River Valley Region, I have an idea concerning your predicament, and it involves an inner tube, bath mats, and 21 able-bodied men
01:40
12
The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
06:17
13
Prairie Fire That Wanders About
02:11
14
A conjunction of drones simulating the way in which Sufjan Stevens has an existential crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
00:19
15
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
05:23
16
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!
05:09
17
Let's hear that string part again, because I don't think they heard it all the way out in Bushnell
00:40
18
In This Temple As in The Hearts of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth
00:35
19
The Seer's Tower
03:54
20
The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier Part II: Come to Me Only With Playthings Now
07:03
21
Riffs and Variations on a single note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to name a few
00:46
22
Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I shake the dirt from my sandals as I run
04:21
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The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
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