Sufjan Stevens - Exploding Whale lyrics

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

The 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 (That is what we are)
Give everything you've got
Before your life is caught in conditions
Be the first of it's victims
The foot of a hare

Action or consequence (Action or consequence)
My unyielding defense (My unyielding defense)
Superstition (That is what we are)
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 distress with my fist
Will history prevail my exploding whale?

What of a dream deferred
My appeal in reverse? Apparition
Embrace the epic fail of my exploding whale