John My Beloved - Sufjan Stevens

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[ar:Sufjan Stevens]
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[00:00.00]John My Beloved - Sufjan Stevens
[00:24.79]Are we to speak first day of the week
[00:30.85]Stumbling words at the bar
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[00:36.88]Beauty blue eyes my order of fries
[00:42.75]Long island kindness and wine
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[00:48.72]Beloved of John I get it all wrong
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[00:54.61]I read you for some kind of poem
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[01:00.87]Covered in lines the fossils I find
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[01:06.90]Have they no life of their own
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[01:12.71]So can we pretend sweetly
[01:18.51]Before the mystery ends
[01:23.40]I am a man with a heart that offends
[01:28.29]With it's lonely and greedy demands
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[01:35.09]There's only a shadow of me in a manner of speaking
[01:42.17]I'm dead
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[01:48.78]Such a waste your beautiful face
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[01:54.79]Stumbling carpet arise
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[02:00.57]Go follow your gem your white feathered friend
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[02:06.82]Icarus point to the sun
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[02:12.56]If history speaks of two baby teeth
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[02:18.56]I'm painting the hills blue and red
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[02:24.66]They said beware lord hear my prayer
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[02:30.58]I've wasted my throes on your head
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[02:36.66]So can we be friends sweetly
[02:42.64]Before the mystery ends
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[02:47.30]I love you more than the world can contain
[02:52.25]In it's lonely and ramshackle head
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[02:59.13]There's only a shadow of me in a manner of speaking
[03:06.18]I'm dead
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[03:36.59]I'm holding my breath
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[03:39.63]My tongue on your chest
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[03:42.78]What can be said of my heart
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[03:48.56]If history speaks the kiss on my cheek
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[03:54.67]Where there remains but a mark
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[04:00.62]Beloved my John so I'll carry on
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[04:06.76]Counting my cards down to one
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[04:12.62]And when I am dead come visit my bed
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[04:18.54]My fossil is bright in the sun
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[04:24.66]So can we contend peacefully
[04:30.67]Before my history ends
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[04:35.38]Jesus I need you be near me come shield me
[04:40.52]From fossils that fall on my head
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[04:47.02]There's only a shadow of me in a manner of speaking
[04:54.07]I'm dead