Exploding Whale Lyrics & Chords By 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
Wild ambition
Give everything you've got
Jump the Fosbury flop
With intention
Pursue your invention as something of worth

Ihe 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 its victims
The foot of a hare

Action or consequence (action of consequence)
My unyielding defense (my unyielding defense)
Superstition (what is going on?)
And 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 distrust with my fists
Will history prevail
My exploding whale

My little dream deflowered
My appeal in reverse
Apparition
Embrace the epic fail
Of my exploding whale