Sufjan Stevens - (This Is) The Thing lyrics

[Verse 1] This is the thing about people You never really know what's inside Somewhere in the soul there's a secret Hysteria grows where it was invited This is the thing about fiction How everything feeds on its paranoia Wrapping it all up in tradition Now fill up the cup, go and drink your poison [Chorus] My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence So give it all up, give it distance Live it up for the path of resistance [Verse 2] This is the thing about confusion You never really know what you'll find You tell me what it means to be human The freedom you seek is to free your mind [Chorus] My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence So give it all up, give it distance Live it up for the path of resistance [Verse 3] This is the thing about evil You never really know where it's hiding Find your phantom in the cathedral The more you search for it, the less you'll find [Chorus] My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence So give it all up, give it distance Live it up, for the path of resistance [Outro] My love (My love) Is a witness (Is a witness) For the loss (For the loss) Of your innocence So give it all up (Give it up) Give it distance (Give it distance) Live it up (Live it up) For the path of resistance