All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your

Sufjan Stevens · Michigan [2003]

"All Good Naysyers Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!"



All good thoughts of righteousness

Is not the kind of thoughts in spite of greatness.

Often not the State is advocation.

If we form a power of recognition.



Forget loss and perfect advocation.

If it drops or stays in convocation.

All we praise is all we want in commerce

All we praise is parties, foreign commerce.

Entertain ideas of great communion,

Shelter not materials in union

(All we praise is not the kind of commerce.

That's the right solution!)



All good thoughts is not the act of doing

What we want but what we should improving

Properties, ideas, a woman's pleasure

Is empowered by love, a perfect measure!

(All we praise is not the kind of commerce.

That's the right solution!)