Sufjan Stevens - Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair Lyrics

Lyrics Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair - Sufjan Stevens



I don′t care to say what
I failed to recognize
Every single day from the poker to the prize
Running out of Springfield
I worked for the Capitol Air, in the bags
Found a woman there who said
She had a mind to make
Me a messenger man
If my father took his life
For the national plan, I don't care
I′m not about to stick my grave with an
Apron and a bucket of plans, never ever
I can take the pillow cases
Off the yellow pillows,
Make a property line from the bed
In the living room, the living room,
The morning papers made the most
Out of nothing at all
So we took the room
With a view of the runaway
I took off my clothes,
And she took it for a holiday
I was taken for all the things
That I never had before
Running out of Springfield
She left me with a note saying:
"Bobby, don't look back."
And if my wife took a bicycle ride
With a knife in her hand
I saw it coming
All the shad-flies run at once
With a trumpet or a train,
Oh I'm running from it
Wait a minute, wait a minute,
Give a minute, lady
I can explain the aftershave
Wait a minute, wait a minute,
Give a minute
Bobby got a shad fly
Caught in his hair



Writer(s): sufjan stevens


Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
Album The Avalanche
date of release
10-07-2006

1 Springfiel, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught In His Hair
2 Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair
3 Carlyle Lake
4 Saul Bellow
5 Chicago (Acoustic)
6 Adlai Stevenson
7 The Avalanche
8 The Mistress Witch From McClure (Or, the Mind That Knows Itself)
9 Pittsfield
10 Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)
11 The Perpetual Self, or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?"
12 Kaskaskia River
13 Dear Mr. Supercomputer
14 The Vivian Girls Are Visited In the Night by Saint Dargarius and his Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
15 Chicago (acoustic version)
16 The Henney Buggy Band
17 Saul Bellow
18 Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
19 The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
20 For Clyde Tombaugh
21 Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)
22 Pittsfield
23 The Undivided Self (for Eppie and Popo)




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