The Owl And The Tanager Lyrics - All Delighted People - Sufjan Stevens

All I had hoped for 

I kept inside your car 

The rabbit in the barn 

Most of all I wait 

I wait beside the door; I wait beside the door 

All I was wrong trembling in the cage 

I was diamonds in the cage 

In seven hours I consider death 

And your father called to yell at me 

You little boy, you little boy 

Found out you cheated me 

I ran behind the barn and cut my hands somehow 

Blood in the meadowlark 

I punched your ears instead 

I punched you in the head 

You only laughed and laughed and laughed 

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How I was wrong tingling from the kill 

Tickle me until you devil bird you evil still 

Slept on my arms, sleeping in the sill 

I was sleeping in the room with you 

You little boy, you little boy 

How could you run from me now? 

The loneliest chime in the house 

The loneliest chime in the house 

You let it out you let it out 

Come to me Calvary still 

I'm weeding and raking until 

I'm bleeding in spite of my love for you 

It bruised and bruised my will 

Photos 

Counting alluvial plains 

The breathing inside of the range 

You touched me inside of my cage 

Beneath my shirt your hands embraced me 

Come to me feathered and frayed 

For I am the ugliest prey, 

For I am the ugliest prey 

The owl, the reckless reckless praise. 

You said you'd wait for me 

Down by Tannery Creek 

Far out by the clothesline where we used to kiss behind the sheets 

Wrapped in a blanket of red 

The Owl and the Tanager said 

The Owl and the Tanager said 

One waits until the hour is death