Impossible Soul

Part 1

Woman, tell me what you want

And I'll calm down

without bleeding out

With my broken heart

that you stabbed for an hour

Woman,

I was freaking out because I want you to know

My beloved,you

are the lover of my impossible soul

And woman,

promise you'll stay and put off all your woes

I was bleeding out,

too much worry,I

could not get you at all

And if you said what you want,

You would laugh it off

But I know you won't go,

not for either class

Must you write it off

for the impossible soul?

And I was in a dream,

I was gone away without you

but not too slow

At last I put it off,

for I put it right

for the impossible soul

And all I couldn't sing,

I would say it all

My life to you,

if I could get you at all

Don't be a wreck,

trying to be something

that I wasn't at all

Seems I got it wrong,

I was chasing after something

that was gone

To the black of night

Now I know it's not

what I wanted at all

You'll say something like,

all you want is

all the world for yourself

And all I want is the perfect love,

though I know it's small

I won't love for its soul

And all I couldn't sing,

I would say it all

My life to you,

if I could get you at all

Oh, oh oh oh,

trying to be something

that I wasn't at all

Part 2

[Shara Worden & Sufjan Stevens]

Do you want to be afraid?

Do you want to be afraid?

For life in the cage

where courage's mate

[04:20.96]runs deep in the waves

For the scariest things

are not half as enslaved

Don't be distracted

don't be distracted

Do you want to be alone?

Do you want to be alone?

For life isn't stained

of righteousness pale

The seed and the hail,

all the clouds that have left

aren't interested

Don't be distracted,

don't be distracted

Do you want to love me more?

Do you want to love me more?

For love is the breath

If water and wind

is cursed by the same thing

that nurtured its shame

Is it worth all the work?

Don't be distracted,

don't be distracted

Have you failed to feel delight?(No I don't want to)

And have you failed to feel delight?(No I don't want to)

Instead of the love,

lived tired and lost,

Have you left it at last

Where it floundered its death

with the language of ghosts?

Don't be distracted,

don't be distracted

Do you want to be afraid?(No I don't want to feel pain)

Do you want to be afraid?(No I don't want to feel)

For life in the cage where

Where courage's mate

runs deep in the waves

For the scariest things

are not half as enslaved

Don't be distracted,

don't be distracted

Don't be distracted,

don't be distracted now

Part 3

[Sufjan Stevens]

Stupid man in the window,

I couldn't be at rest

All my delight,

all that mattered,

I couldn't be at rest

From what I liked,

from what I gathered,

I couldn't be at rest

Stupid man in the window,

I couldn't be at rest

And don't be shy in the window

Come down and give your best

Oh, delight in the window

I couldn't be at rest

Stupid man in the window,

I couldn't be at rest

From what I liked,

from what I gathered,

I couldn't give my best

Oh, I know it wasn't safe,

it wasn't safe to breathe at all

Oh, I know it wasn't safe,

it wasn't safe to breathe at all

Oh, I know it wasn't safe,

it wasn't safe to breathe at all

Oh, I know it wasn't safe,

it wasn't safe to speak at all

Part 4

[Sufjan Stevens]

Hold on, Suf

Hold on, Suf

Hold on, Sufjan

Hold on, Suf

Hold on, Suf

Hold on, Sufjan

Hold on, Suf

Hold on, Suf

Hold on, Sufjan

1, 2, 3, 4!

It's a long life,

better pinch yourself

Put your face together,

better get it right

It's a long life,

better hit yourself

Put your face together,

better stand up straight

It's a long life,

only one last chance

Couldn't get much better,

do you wanna dance?

It's a long life,

better pinch yourself

Get your face together,

better stand up straight

Boy, we can do much more together

(Better get it right,

get it right,

get it right,

get it right)

Boy, we can do much more together

(Better get a life,

get a life,

get a life,

get a life)

Boy, we can do much more together

(Better get it right,

get it right,

get it right,

get it right)

Boy, we can do much more together;

It's not so impossible

It's not so impossible

It's not so impossible

It's not so impossible

It's a long life,

better pinch yourself

Get your face together,

better roll along

It's a long life,

better pinch yourself

Put your face together,

better stand up straight

It's a long life

only one last chance

Couldn't get much better,

do you wanna dance?

It's a good life,

better pinch yourself

Is it impossible?

Is it impossible?

Boy, we can do much more together

(Better get a life,

get a life,

get a life,

get a life)

Boy, we can do much more together

(Better give love,

give love,

give love,

give love)

Boy, we can do much more together

(Better get it right,

get it right,

get it right,

get it right)

Boy we can do much more together,

it's not so impossible

It's not so impossible

It's not so impossible

It's not so impossible

It's a long life

(it's a long life),

better pinch yourself

(better pinch yourself)

Put your face together

(put your face together),

better get it right

(better get it right)

It's a long life

(it's a long life),

better hit yourself

(better hit yourself)

Put your face together

(put your face together),

better stand up straight

(better stand up straight)

In the wrong life

(in the wrong life),

everything is chance

(everything is chance)

Does it register?

(does it register)

Do you wanna dance?

(do you wanna dance)

In the right life

(in the right life),

it's a miracle

(it's a miracle)

Possibility

(possibility),

do you wanna dance?

Boy, we can do much more together

(Better get it right,

get it right,

get it right,

get it right)

Boy, we can do much more together

(Better give love,

give love,

give love,

give love)

Boy, we can do much more together

(Better get it right,

get it right,

get it right,

get it right)

Boy, we can do much more together

It's not so impossible

It's not so impossible

It's not so impossible

It's not so impossible

(Hold on, Suf

Hold on, Suf

Hold on, Sufjan)

Do you want to dance?

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

(Boy, we can do much more together

It's not so impossible)

(Boy, we can do much more together)

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

[Short Instrumental]

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

(It's not so impossible)

Boy, we can do much more together

Boy

Part 5 — "Pleasure Principle"

[Sufjan Stevens]

I never meant to cause you pain

My burden is the weight of a feather

I never meant to lead you on

I only meant to please me, however

And then you tell me,

boy, we can do much more

Boy, we can do much more

Boy, we can do much more together

Boy, we can do much more together

I'm nothing but a selfish man

I'm nothing but a privileged peddler

And did you think I'd stay the night?

And did you think I'd love you forever?

And then you tell me,

boy, we can do much more

Boy, we can do much more

Boy, we can do much more together

Boy, we can do much more together

I got to tell you, girl,

I want nothing less

Girl, I want nothing less

Girl, I want nothing less than pleasure

Girl, I want nothing less than pleasure

I got to tell you,

boy, we made such a mess

Boy, we made such a mess

Boy, we made such a mess together

Boy, we made such a mess together

Boy, we made such a mess together

Boy, we made such a mess together

Boy, we made such a mess together

Boy, we made such a mess together

The End