Wallowa Lake Monster Lyrics - Sufjan Stevens

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 pillow case 

Fortune for the paper weight 

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 

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And like the cedar wax wing, she was drunk all day 

We put her in the sheet, little wreath, candles on the crate 

As the monster showed its face 

As she waits 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 its shallow grave 

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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