They Are Night Zombies   They Are Neighbors   They Have Come Back from the Dead   Ahhhh  - 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

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

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