Wallace Stevens

by Vic Chesnutt

From the album: North Star Deserter

Track 4 of 12 on North Star Deserter (2007).

Duration: 2:17

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Lyrics for Wallace Stevens

I saw a blackbird Thirteen ways Then strew a fist many Mountains away My evangelism felled Brutally taken By breezes that rubbed me And lifted light raven I stretched to borrow Fine antebelleum To encase all the scrapings Of us civilised fellow I wanted to stash them To secretive cages With that fabulous blackbird Of thirteen stages

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More from North Star Deserter

  1. Warm
  2. Glossolalia
  3. Everything I Say
  4. Wallace Stevens
  5. You Are Never Alone
  6. Fodder On Her Wings
  7. Splendid
  8. Rustic City Fathers
  9. Over
  10. Debriefing
  11. Marathon
  12. Rattle