The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier Part II: Come to Me Only With Playthings Now - Sufjan Stevens

I count the days the great frontier

Forgiving, faced the seventh year

I stand in awe of gratefulness

I can and call forgetfulness

And when I, and when I call

The patient, the patient fall

The spirit, the carpenter

Invites us to be with her

What have we become America?

Soldiers on the great frontier

Carpenter and soldier, one on one

It’s the battle, volunteer

Run from yourself, from your friends, from ya

Run for your life, for your friends, for ya

America, merica, meri

Oh Illinois, Illinois, Illi

I count the days the great frontier

Forgiving, faced the seventh year

I stand and strain to make ends meet

Five spirits on the Grand Marquee

And when I, and when I call

The patient, the patient fall

The spirit, the carpenter

Invites us to be with her

There was a man at the wall

He was grateful for us all

I saw the wise woman sing

She wasn’t asking anything

She wasn’t asking anything

How she made the nations sing

What have we become America?

Soldiers on the great frontier

Run from yourself, from your friends, from ya

Run for your life, for your friends, for ya

America, merica, meri

Oh Illinois, Illinois, Illi

Oh great fire of great disaster

Oh great Heaven, oh great master

Oh great goat, the curse you gave us

Oh great ghost, protect and save us

Oh great river, green with envy

Oh Jane Adams, spirit send thee

Oh great trumpet and the singers

(Given what you lost are you better off?)

Oh great good man, King of Swingers

(Given what you had, has it made you mad?)

Oh great bears and bulls, Joe Jackson

(Celebrate the few, celebrate the new)

Oh great Illinois

(It can only start with you)