Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel The Illinoise! lyrics

[Part 1: World's Columbian Exposition] Oh, great intentions I've got the best of interventions But when the ads come I think about it now In my infliction Entrepreneurial condition Take us to glory I think about it now Cannot conversations cull united nations? If you've got the patience, celebrate the ancients Cannot all creation call it celebration? Or united nation, put it to your head Oh, great white city I've got the adequate committee Where have your walls gone? I think about it now Chicago, in fashion The soft drinks, expansion Oh, Columbia From Paris, incentive Like Cream of Wheat invented The Ferris wheel Oh, great intentions Covenant with the imitation Have you no conscience? I think about it now Oh, God of Progress Have you degraded or forgot us? Where have your laws gone? I think about it now Ancient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific Typically terrific, busy and prolific Cla**ical devotion, architect promotion Lacking in emotion, think about it now Chicago, the New Age But what would Frank Lloyd Wright say? Oh, Columbia Amusement or treasure These optimistic pleasures Like the Ferris wheel Cannot conversations cull united nations? If you've got the patience, celebrate the ancients Columbia [Part 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream] 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 d**h Even with the heart of terror and the superstitious wearer I am riding all alone, I am writing all alone Even in my best condition, counting all the superstition I am riding all alone, I am running all alone And we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines We were asked at the attitudes, they reminded us of d**h Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated Are you writing from the heart, are you writing from the heart? Even in his heart, the Devil has to know the water level Are you writing from the heart, are you writing from the heart? And I cried myself to sleep last night For the Earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated Are you writing from the heart, are you writing from the heart? Even in his heart, the Devil has to know the water level Are you writing from the heart, are you writing from the heart?