Listen to Come On! Feel the Illinoise! by Sufjan Stevens

Come On! Feel the Illinoise!

Sufjan Stevens

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Sufjan Stevens

Piano

Craig Montoro

Trumpet

Julianne Carney

Julianne Carney

Violin

Katrina Kerns

Background Vocals

Maria Bella Jeffers

Maria Bella Jeffers

Cello

Marla Hansen

Viola

Rob Moose

Violin

Shara Worden

Background Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Sufjan Stevens

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Sufjan Stevens

Producer

Alan Douches

Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Oh, great intentions

I've got the best of interventions

But when the ads come

I think about it now

[Verse 2]

In my infliction

Entrepreneurial conditions

Take us to glory

I think about it now

[Verse 3]

Cannot conversations cull United Nations?

If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients

Cannot all creation call it celebration?

Or United Nation, put it to your head

[Verse 4]

Oh, great white city

I've got the adequate committee

Where have your walls gone?

I think about it now

[Verse 5]

Chicago, in fashion, the soft drinks, expansion

Oh, Columbia

From Paris, incentive

Like Cream of Wheat invented

The ferris wheel

[Verse 6]

Oh, great intentions

Covenant with the imitation

Have you no conscience?

I think about it now

[Verse 7]

Oh God of progress

Have you degraded or forgot us?

Where have your laws gone?

I think about it now

[Verse 8]

Ancient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific

Typically terrific, busy and prolific

Classical devotion, architect promotion

Lacking in emotion, think about it now

[Verse 9]

Chicago, the new age

But what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?

Oh, Columbia

Amusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures

Like the ferris wheel

[Verse 10]

Cannot conversations cull United Nations?

If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients

[Verse 11]

Columbia

[Verse 12]

I cried myself to sleep last night

And the ghost of Carl, he approached my window

I was hypnotized, I was asked to improvise

On the attitude, the regret

Of a thousand centuries of death

[Verse 13]

Even with the heart of terror

And the superstitious wearer

I am riding all alone

I am writing all alone

[Verse 14]

Even in my best condition

Counting all the superstition

I am riding all alone

I am running all alone

[Verse 15]

And we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines

We were asked at the attitudes

They reminded us of death

[Verse 16]

Even with the rest belated

Everything is antiquated

Are you writing from the heart?

Are you writing from the heart?

[Verse 17]

Even in his heart, the Devil has to know the water level

Are you writing from the heart?

Are you writing from the heart?

[Verse 18]

And I cried myself to sleep last night

For the Earth and materials

They may sound just right to me

[Verse 19]

Even with the rest belated

Everything is antiquated

Are you writing from the heart?

Are you writing from the heart?

[Verse 20]

Even in his heart, the Devil has to know the water level

Are you writing from the heart?

Are you writing from the heart?

Written by: Sufjan Stevens

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