Illinoise (the ballet/musical based on Sufjan Stevens' album Illinois) is eying a move to Broadway after its current NY run in Armory Park ends and im just imagining it taking off among the bway Fandom because 1 it's fucking amazing 2 it's gay and sad and will make you cry (but doesn't bury its gays) 3 the characters are broad enough that fanon can do literally whatever it wants with them
But then we'd have a whole Fandom obsessed with esoteric Illinois history which would be so fucking funny.
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if i was crying in the van with my friend it was for freedom from myself and the land
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Sufjan Stevens | Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
When the revenant came down, we couldn’t imagine what it was
In the spirit of three stars, the alien thing that took its form
Then to Lebanon, oh God
The flashing at night, the sirens grow and grow
Oh, history involved itself
Mysterious shade that took its form
Or what it was, incarnation, three stars
Delivering signs and dusting from their eyes
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In the morning when you finally go
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window
In the morning in the winter shade
On the first of March, on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing
All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications when I see His face
In the morning in the window
All the glory when He took our place
But He took my shoulders and He shook my face
And He takes and He takes and He takes
— Sufjan Stevens, 'Casimir Pulaski Day'
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oh the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us we're really in it now
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oh great intentions i’ve got the best of interventions
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it’s so cool to listen to music for 18 musicians and hear how much it inspired illinois sufjan stevens
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Poor Sufjan every time he does an interview now.
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sufjan stevens was right we have a lot to give one another!
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why do the rude-ass people who think they’re the protagonists of the bus/train car never blast , like, sufjan or something
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Sufjan Stevens | John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
He dressed up like a clown for them
With his face paint white and red
And on his best behavior
In a dark room on the bed, he kissed them all
He’d kill ten thousand people
With a sleight of his hand
Running far, running fast, to the dead
He took off all their clothes for them
He put a cloth on their lips
Quiet hands, quiet kiss
On the mouth
And in my best behavior
I am really just like him
Look beneath the floorboards
For the secrets I have hid
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