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Sufjan Stevens lyrics : "Impossible Soul"

Ooh. Woman, tell me what you want and I'll calm down
Without bleeding out, with a broken heart that you stabbed for an hour


Woman, I was freaking out because I want you to know
My beloved, you are the lover of my impossible soul
Woman, too, promise me you'll stay and put off all your woes


I was wigging out, too much worry, I could not get you at all
And you said what you want, you would laugh it off

But I know you won't go, not for either class
Must you write it off for the impossible soul?
And I was in a dream, I was gone away without you, but not too slow

Lest I put it off, 'fore I put it right for the impossible soul

And all I couldn't sing, I would say it all my life to you, if I could get you at all

Don't be a wreck, trying to be something that I wasn't at all

Seems I got it wrong, I was chasing after something that was gone

To the black of night, now I know it's not what I wanted at all
And you said something like, "All you want is all the world for yourself"
But all I want is the perfect love

Though I know it's small, I want love for us all

All I couldn't sing, I would say it all my life to you, if I could get you at all

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Trying to be something that I wasn't at all



==PART TWO (3:56)==


Do you want to be afraid? Do you want to be afraid?
For life in the cage, where courage is made, runs deep in the wake
For the scariest things are not half as enslaved


Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Do you want to be alone? Do you want to be alone?

For life is instead a righteousness led
The seat and the head, of impossible flights, or an interest in books(?)


Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Do you want to love me more? Do you want to love me more?
For love is the grain, if watered in pain,

is cursed by the same thing that nurtured its shame
Is it worth all the work?


Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Have you failed to feel delight? [No, I don't want to feel pain]
Have you failed to feel delight? [No, I don't want to feel pain]

Instead of the life, lived tired and lost, have you left it at last
Where it floundered its death with the language of ghosts?


Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Do you want to be afraid? [No, I don't want to feel pain]
Do you want to be afraid? [No, I don't want to feel pain]

For life in the cage, where courage is made, runs deep in the wake
For the scariest things are not half as enslaved


Don't be distracted, don't be distracted
Don't be distracted, don't be distracted now


[Don't be distracted] (~x10)



==PART THREE (10:40)==

Stupid man in the window, I couldn't be at rest

All my delight, all that mattered, I couldn't be at rest
Stupid man in the window, I couldn't be at rest
From what I liked, from what I gathered, I couldn't be at rest

[judgement, judgement]

And don't be shy in the window, come down and give your best

Oh, delight in the window, I couldn't be at rest
Stupid man in the window, I couldn't be at rest
From what I liked, from what I gathered, I couldn't give my best


Now I know it wasn't safe, it wasn't safe to breathe at all
Oh I know it wasn't safe, it wasn't safe to creep or crawl
[It wasn't safe, it wasn't safe]
Now I know it wasn't safe, it wasn't safe to breathe at all

[It wasn't safe, it wasn't safe]
Oh I know it wasn't safe, it wasn't safe to speak at all


==PART FOUR (13:26)==


[Hold on Suf, hold on Suf, hold on Suf-j-an]
[Hold on Suf, hold on Suf, hold on Suf-j-an]

One! Two! Three! Four!


It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Put your face together, better get it right
It's a long life, better hit yourself
Put your face together, better stand up straight


It's a long life, only one last chance
Could it get much better; do you wanna dance?
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Get your face together, better stand up straight


Boy, we can do much more together!
Better get a life get a life get a life get a life
Boy, we can do much more together!
Better get a love get a love get a life get a love
Boy, we can do much more together!
Better get it right get it right get it right get it right
Boy, we can do much more together!

It's not so impossible!
It's not so impossible!

It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Put your face together, better roll along
It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Put your face together, better stand up straight


It's a long life, only one last chance
Couldn't get much better; do you wanna dance?
It's a good life, better pinch yourself
Is it possible? Is it possible?

Boy, we can do much more together!

Better get a life get a life get a life get a life
Boy, we can do much more together!
Better get a love get a love get a life get a love
Boy, we can do much more together!
Better get it right get it right get it right get it right
Boy we can do much more together!
It's not so impossible!

It's not so impossible!

It's a long life, better pinch yourself
Put your face together, better get it right
It's a long life, better hit yourself
Put your face together, better stand up straight


In the wrong light everything is chance
Does it register? Do you wanna dance?
In the right light it's a miracle
Possibilities
Do you wanna dance?

Boy, we can do much more together!
Better get a life get a life get a life get a life
Boy, we can do much more together!
Better get a love get a love get a life get a love
Boy, we can do much more together!
Better get it right get it right get it right get it right
Boy, we can do much more together!

It's not so impossible! (x5)

Do you wanna dance?

Boy, we can do much more together
It's not so impossible
(x15)

[Boy, we can do much more together
It's not so impossible]
(x6)

==PART FIVE (22:52)==

I never meant to cause you pain
My burden is the weight of a feather
I never meant to lead you on
I only meant to please me, however

And then you tell me:
Boy, we can do much more
Boy, we can do much more together (x2)

I'm nothing but a selfish man
I'm nothing but a privileged peddler
And did you think I'd stay the night?
And did you think I'd love you forever?

And then you tell me:
Boy, we can do much more (x2)
Boy, we can do much more together (x2)

I gotta tell you:
Girl, I want nothing less (x2)
Girl, I want nothing less than pleasure (x2)

I gotta tell you:
Boy, we made such a mess (x2)
Boy, we made such a mess together (x6)

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