Sufjan Stevens - Exploding Whale: chords

F#                 D#m
I'm nobody's friend
D#m                      G#m7
Loneliness rides in my bed
G#m7         B
My misfortune
B                        A#m
Give everything you've got
A#m                  B
While the sun burns hot
B
My addiction
C#
Spoils my affection
C#              F#
For everything good

Elephant in the room
Might as well shoot at the moon
Wild ambition
Give everything you've got
Jump the Fosbury flop
With intention
Pursue your invention
As something of worth

Chorus:
G#m                 F#
The thing I most regret
F#              C#
Is having to repress what I'm feeling
        D#m         C#         B
While expressing delight as a myth
B                A#m
Embrace the epic fail
A#m               B C#
Of my exploding whale

F#                       D#m
Poison or powdered milk (poison or powdered milk)
D#m              G#
Paralyzed as it took (paralyzed as it took)
G#             B
Premonition (that is what we are)
B                       A#m
Give everything you've got
A#m                  B
Before your life is caught in conditions
        C#
Be the first of its victims
              F#
The foot of a hare

F#                     D#m
Action or consequence (action or consequence)
D#m             G#
My unyielding defense (my unyielding defense)
G#              B
Superstition (that is what we are)
B               A#m
My attempts to obscure
A#m                  B
The wonders of this world
B
Be it fortune
    C#
Or faith in distortion
C#              B
The patron of prayer

Chorus:
The thing I most resent
Is having to consent to illusion
While confessing distress with my fist
Will history prevail
My exploding whale?

What of a dream deferred
My appeal in reverse?
Apparition
Embrace the epic fail
Of my exploding whale