[id:$00000000] [ar:Sufjan Stevens] [ti:Wallowa Lake Monster] [by:] [hash:3b017a11717bf8dff52dd1f2ac4af833] [al:] [sign:] [qq:] [total:0] [offset:0] [00:00.04]Sufjan Stevens - Wallowa Lake Monster [00:24.54]As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake [00:31.99]Leviathan first hid in the deep where her children sleep [00:40.11]She kept them hidden from the plague [00:46.64]But have you heard the story of my mother's fate [00:53.93]She left us in Detroit in the rain with a pillowcase [01:02.76]Fortune for the paperweight [01:08.72]We followed her to Joseph near the Indian raid [01:16.14]She wept among the weeds hide and seek for the fallen chief [01:24.91]Spathiphyllum on his grave [01:31.03]And like the cedar waxwing she was drunk all day [01:38.38]We put her in the sheet little wreath candles on the crate [01:47.03]As the monster showed its face [01:53.53]As she waits for her children in the shade [02:00.97]Demogorgon or demigod the ghost parade [02:08.25]No oblation will bring her back to our place [02:44.75]She stayed within the deep end of Wallowa Lake [02:52.08]The undertow refrained with the flame of a feathered snake [03:00.45]Charybdis in its shallow grave [03:06.77]She gave us one last feature the fullness of her face [03:14.48]In the shade of [03:16.29]Hin mah too yah [03:19.33]Red Napoleon [03:23.14]As the demon took her place [03:29.29]As we wait for the waters to reside [03:37.00]Her remarkable stoicism and her pride [03:44.43]When the dragon submerged we knew she had died