Wallace Stevens

by Vic Chesnutt

From the album: North Star Deserter

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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