The Upper Peninsula

by Sufjan Stevens

From the album: Michigan

Track 5 of 15 on Michigan (2003).

Duration: 03:23

Michigan cover art

Lyrics for The Upper Peninsula

I live in America with a pair of Payless shoes The Upper Peninsula and the television news I've seen my wife at the K-Mart In strange ideas we live apart I live in a trailer home with a snowmobile, my car The window is broken out and the interstate is far I drove all night to find my child In strange ideas he's been revived In strange ideas, in stranger times I've no idea what's right sometimes I lost my mind, I lost my life I lost my job, I lost my wife

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