John My Beloved (iPhone Demo) - Sufjan Stevens

[00:23.42]Are we to speak, first day of the week
[00:28.79]Stumbling words at the bar
[00:34.32]Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries
[00:39.67]Long island kindness and wine
[00:45.06]Beloved of John, I get it all wrong
[00:50.29]I read you for some kind of stone
[00:55.71]Covered in lines, the fossils I find
[01:01.15]Have they no life of their own?
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[01:06.53]So can we pretend sweetly
[01:11.91]Before the mystery ends?
[01:15.92]I am a man with a heart that offends
[01:20.51]With its lonely and greedy demands
[01:26.71]There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead
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[01:50.07]Such a waste, your beautiful face
[01:55.47]Slumbering carpet arise
[02:00.58]But you and your ring, your life-giving string
[02:06.34]Come to me now as a friend
[02:11.65]If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
[02:17.02]I’m painting the hills blue and red
[02:22.41]They said beware, Lord hear my prayer
[02:27.90]Anointing my love on your head
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[02:33.34]So can we be friends sweetly
[02:38.48]Before the mystery ends?
[02:42.81]I love you more than the world can contain
[02:47.35]In its loneliest ramshackle head
[02:53.74]There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead
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[03:28.43]I’m holding my breath
[03:31.20]My signature death
[03:34.07]What can be said of my heart?
[03:39.76]If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
[03:44.86]Where there remains but a mark
[03:50.32]Beloved my John, so I’ll carry on
[03:55.60]Counting my cards down to one
[04:00.98]And when I am dead, return to the bed
[04:05.94]My fossil is bright in the sun