Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Canonical path: /sufjan-stevens/the-upper-peninsula
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Upper Peninsula
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The Upper Peninsula
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I live in America
With a pair of Payless shoes
The upper penisula
And the television news
And I've seen my wife
At the K-Mart
In strange ideas
We live apart
I live in a trailer home
With a snow mobile, 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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