Springfield, Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair Lyrics - The Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras From Illinois Album - Sufjan Stevens

I don't care to say what 

I failed to recognize 

Every single day from the poker to the prize 

Running out of Springfield 

I worked for the Capitol Air, in the bags 

Found a woman there who said 

she had a mind to make 

me a messenger man 

If my father took his life 

for the national plan, I don't care 

I'm not about to stick my grave with an 

apron and a bucket of plans, never ever 

I can take the pillow cases 

off the yellow pillows, 

make a property line from the bed 

In the living room, the living room, 

the morning papers made the most 

out of nothing at all 

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So we took the room 

with a view of the runaway 

I took off my clothes, 

and she took it for a holiday 

I was taken for all the things 

that I never had before 

Running out of Springfield 

she left me with a note saying: 

"Bobby, don't look back." 

And if my wife took a bicycle ride 

with a knife in her hand 

I saw it coming 

All the shad-flies run at once 

with a trumpet or a train, 

oh I'm running from it 

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Wait a minute, wait a minute, 

Give a minute, lady 

I can explain the aftershave 

Wait a minute, wait a minute, 

give a minute 

Bobby got a shad fly 

caught in his hair