I Want To Be Well
Sufjan Stevens

To think that I would die this time
Isolated in the room where the bed rises
Photographic ordinary people are everywhere
Extraordinary histories, ordinary histories, ordinary histories

I'll find sleep, I'll find peace
Or in death you'll sleep with me

To figure that it was my fault
Or so I've come to realize life is not about
Love with someone
(Ordinary people are everywhere)
Extraordinary people are, ordinary people are, ordinary people are

Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn
Illness is watching, waiting its turn

Did I go at it wrong?
Did I go intentionally to destroy me?
I'm suffering in noise I'm suffering in
(Touching ordinary body)

The burning from within the burning from with
(Ordinary is scary now)
I could not be at rest, I could not be at peace
(Extraordinary is scary now)

So do yourself a good
Or do yourself a death from ordinary causes
Or do yourself a favor
Or do yourself a death from ordinary causes

Endless lights prey upon the lonely
Prey upon the lonely
Weightless lights, oh, I would rather be
But I would rather be fine

I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well

And I forgive you even
As you choke me that way
With the pill or demon
And the shrouding [unverified]

Under conversation
In tremendous weight of
A crowd of ages outside
Just an order

I'm not fucking around
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not fucking around

And shall I kiss you even as you take me that way?
With the pill or demon as my body changes
Apparitions gone awry, they surround me, all sides
From what am I seeing, only changes

I'm not fucking around
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not fucking around


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Or Forever Hold Your...   All Of Me Wants All Of You   All Of Me Wants All Of You 3:41   All The King's Horns   All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands   Alphabet   Alphabet St. (Prince cover)   Amazing Grace   Arnika   Auld Lang Syne   Ave Maria (featuring Cat Martino)   Away In A Manger   Bad Communication   Barcarola (You Must Be A Christmas Tree)   Belly Button   Blue Bucket Of Gold   Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light   Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella   Carlyle Lake   Carol of St. Benjamin The Bearded One   Carrie & Lowell   Carrie And Lowell   Casimir Pulaski Day   Chicago   Chicago (Acoustic Version)   Chicago (adult contemporary easy listening version...   Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)   Chicago (To String Remix)   Christmas Face   Christmas in July   Christmas In The Room   Christmas Unicorn   Christmas Unicorn (free)   Christmas Woman   Come On Feel the Illinoise   Come On! Feel The Illinoise!   Come on! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance!   Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing   Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinoi...   Coventry Carol   Dear Mr. Supercomputer   Dear MrSupercomputer   Death With Dignity   Death With Dignity 3:59   Decatur   Decatur, or Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!   Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother...   Demetrius   Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day? (Well, You De...   Ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling   Ding! Dong!   DJohariah   Do You Hear What I Hear?   Drawn To The Blood   Drawn to the Blood 3:18   Dress Looks Nice On You   Dumb I Sound   Enchanting Ghost   Enjoy Your Rabbit   Eugene   Eugene 2:26   Flint   Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)   For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In ...   For The Widows In Paradise; For The Fatherless In ...   Fourth Of July   Fourth of July 4:39   Futile Devices   Get Real Get Right   Give a Little Love   Go Nightly Cares   Godzuki   Good King Wenceslas   Good Man Is Hard To Find   Happy Birthday   Happy Family Christmas   Happy Karma Christmas   Hark! The Herald Angels Sing   Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas   He Woke Me Up Again   Heirloom   Here I Am!   Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!   Holland   Holly Jolly Christmas   Holy, Holy, Holy   How Shall I Fitly Meet Thee?   I Saw Three Ships   I Walked   I Went Dancing With My Sister   Idumea   Idumea (Sacred Harp)   Impossible Soul   In The Devil's Territory   In This Temple, as in the Hearts of Man, for Whom ...   Interlude I: Dream Sequence in Subi Circumnavigati...   Interlude III: Invisible Accidents   It Came Upon the Midnight Clear   It's Christmas! Let's Be Glad!   Jacksonville   Jason   Jingle Bells   John My Beloved   John Wayne Gacy, Jr.   Joy! Joy! Joy!   Jupiter   Justice Delivers Its Death   Kill   Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!   Lift Up Your Heads Ye Mighty Gates   Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming   Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts   Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages)   Marching Band   Movement I: In the Countenance of Kings   Movement IV: Traffic Shock   Movement V: Self-Organizing Emergent Patterns   Mr. Frosty Man (free)   Niagara Falls   No Man's Land   No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross   No Shade in the Shadow of The Cross 2:40   No Shade In The Shadow Of The Crowss   Now That I'm Older   O Come O Come Emmanuel   Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Res...   Oh God Where Are You Now? (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeo...   Oh God, Where Are You Now?   Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pige...   Once in Royal David's City   Only At Christmas Time   Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and...   Particle Physics   Pickeral Lake   Pickerel Lake   Pittsfield   Prairie Fire That Wanders About   Prelude on the Esplanade   Put the Lights On The Tree   Rake   Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)   Regret   Rice Pudding   Ring Them Bells   Romulus   Santa Claus Is Coming to Town   Saturn   Say Yes! To M!Ch!Gan!   Say Yes! 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