Sufjan Stevens - Wallowa Lake Monster lyrics

As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake:
Leviathan first hid in the deep
Where her children sleep
She kept them hidden from the plague

But have you heard the story
Of my mother’s fate?
She left us in Detroit in
The rain with a pillowcase
Fortune for the paperweight

We followed her to Joseph
Near the Indian raid
She wept among the weeds, hide and seek
For the fallen chief
Spathiphyllum on his grave
And like the cedar waxwing
She was drunk all day
We put her in the sheet, little wreath
Candles on the crate
As the monster showed it's face

As she wait's for her children in the shade
Demogorgon or demigod the ghost parade
No oblation will bring her back to our place

She stayed within the deep
End of Wallowa Lake
The undertow refrained with the flame
Of a feathered snake
Charybdis in it's shallow grave

She gave us one last feature
The fullness of her face
In the shade of "Hin mah-too yah…"
Red Napoleon as the demon took her place

As we wait for the waters to reside
Her remarkable stoicism and her pride
When the dragon submerged we
Knew she had died