(This Is) The Thing

(This Is) The Thing - Sufjan Stevens/Angelo De Augustine

This is the thing about people

You never really know what's inside

Somewhere in the soul there's a secret

Hysteria grows where it was invited

This is the thing about fiction

How everything feeds on its paranoia

Wrapping it all up in tradition

Now fill up the cup go and drink your poison

My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence

So give it all up give it distance

Live it up for the path of resistance

This is the thing about confusion

You never really know what you'll find

You tell me what it means to be human

The freedom you seek is to free your mind

My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence

So give it all up give it distance

Live it up for the path of resistance

This is the thing about evil

You never really know where it's hiding

Find your phantom in the cathedral

The more you search for it the less you'll find

My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence

So give it all up give it distance

Live it up for the path of resistance

My love

My love

Is a witness

Is a witness

For the loss

For the loss

Of your innocence

So give it all up

Give it up

Give it distance

Give it distance

Live it up

Live it up

For the path of resistance