They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From Lyrics - Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! 

Ring the bell and call or write us 

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! 

Can you call the Captain Clitus? 

Logan, Grant, and Ronald Reagan 

In the grave with Xylophagan 

Do you know the ghost community? 

Sound the horn, address the city 

(Who will save it? Dedicate it? 

Who will praise it? Commemorate it for you?) 

Related 

15 Huge Stars Who Were Backup Singers First 

Love Stinks, So Here Are 15 Anti-Valentine's Day Songs 

Modern Love: The Best Top 40 Love Songs For Valentine's Day 

We are awakened with the axe 

Night of the Living Dead at last 

They have begun to shake the dirt 

Wiping their shoulders from the earth 

I know, I know the nations past 

I know, I know they rust at last 

They tremble with the nervous thought 

Of having been, at last, forgot 

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! 

Ring the bell and call or write us 

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! 

Can you call the Captain Clitus? 

B-U-D-A! Caledonia! 

S-E-C-O-R! Magnolia! 

B-I-R-D-S! And Kankakee! 

Evansville and Parker City 

Photos 

Speaking their names, they shake the flag 

Waking the earth, it lifts and lags 

We see a thousand rooms to rest 

Helping us taste the bite of death 

I know, I know my time has passed 

I'm not so young, I'm not so fast 

I tremble with the nervous thought 

Of having been, at last, forgot 

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! 

Ring the bell and call or write us 

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! 

Can you call the Captain Clitus? 

Comer and Potato Peelers! 

G-R-E-E-N Ridge! Reeders 

M-C-V-E-Y! And Horace! 

E-N-O-S! Start the chorus 

Corn and farms and tombs in Lemmon 

Sailor Springs and all things feminine 

Centerville and Old Metropolis 

Shawneetown, you trade and topple us 

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! 

Hold your tongue and don't divide us 

I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! 

Land of God, you hold and guide us