
Mark out the points
Build the pyre
Assemble different drummers
Light up the fire
Put on your masks
And animal skins
Illumination…
…Illumination
Illumination
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat
Oh how ingenious, the centuries of lies
Ezekiel's…
Notions of myself
That I'm not
Whoever I was
Is now lost
Illumination
Illumination
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white…

…drummers
Light up the fire
Put on your masks
And animal skins
Illumination, illumination
Listen to the drums
Between each beat, each…
…themes, time again.
Illumination, illumination
Burn burn, burn white heat
Oh how ingenious the centuries of lies
Ezekielaˆ™s…
Notions of myself that when Iaˆ™m not
Whoever I was is now lost
Illumination, illumination
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn…

…could love
We could love you
If you need somebody to love you
While you're looking for somebody to love
Sweet love illumination…
But inside our love you'll be alright
Sweet love illumination
Sweet sweet love, celebration
Cop car burn
Reason turn
But it'll bring…
…avaricide
But inside our love you'll be alright
Sweet love illumination
Sweet sweet love, celebration
Cop car burn
Reason turn…

…could love
We could love you
If you need somebody to love you
While you're looking for somebody to love
Sweet love illumination…
But inside our love you'll be alright
Sweet love illumination
Sweet sweet love, celebration
Cop car burn
Reason turn…
…fresh avaricide
But inside our love you'll be alright
Sweet love illumination
Sweet sweet love, celebration
Cop car burn
Reason…

…condemned to sin
Peel backs a fingernail and you will find a piece of me
The bible I burn
The cross I shun
Vanquish…
…the light
Illumination undone
The rage inside is now a gaping hole
Black eye blind, a sinful soul
I am your religion, twisted perfection
Scream…
Vanquish the light
Illumination undone
The bible I burn
The cross I shun
Vanquish the light
Illumination undone
Rapture of us all, stranger spoke in tongue
As he stole the light, left us all with none…

…of the day that I set free
My sorrows into your world
When your heart ceases to shine
I'll show you illumination
Divide…
…and in our veins
Though the moments slowly pass that burn my soul
I'd spend a lifetime letting go
And what will remain in its place…
…heart ceases to shine
I'll show you illumination
Divide the distance between I and I
To regain all the strength I've lost along…

…Illumination comes so hard
Makes me see but it leaves its scars
At times I wish that I didn't know what I know now
Thought…
…and thought until I lost my mind
Looked and looked until I went near blind
The path is fair but so unkind
Illumination
(solo…
I watch myself and worlds collide
The seasons burn and crack my skin
I stay outside and live within
Illumination comes so hard…

…was reborn into that incendiary darkness
It brought to mind the great writers of satanic verses
From that truth my eyes glowed with unholy illumination…
…] Burn, burn, burn Burn, burn, burn Burn, burn, burn Burn, burn, burn Burn, burn, burn Burn,…
By Sufjan Stevens (2020)
On album America (2020)

…they said my name means war
Dwelling in song, the lion and the lamb were restored
Illumination, accede my need, my Rajneesh
Hallucination…
Mystical star, burn bright like the tail of a dog
And now we are blessed with the righteousness of the Lord
Illumination, accede…
…my need, my Rajneesh
Hallucination, accede my need, my Rajneesh
Illumination, accede my need, my Rajneesh
Hallucination, accede my…

…: they want to rule our motherland
Enemy: they'll take our treasure till the end
Enemy: they'll burn our homes and fields
Enemy…
…back to us illumination
The baby's cry revives lost hope of the nation
Forgotten sun brings back to us illumination
The baby's cry…
…the little king
The steed was snorting beneath the prince
Forgotten sun brings back to us illumination
And Alexander revives lost hope…

…light, illumination; I don't even care, make it a spark. I need your word up in my life, like everyday that I might live…
…my whole life with your Spirit, and burn that devil up with your, with your
[Chorus]
Fire: Holy Ghost fi mash up the place
Fire…
…: fi make you run and finish up your race
Fire: fi your firm foundation
Fire: fi burn up Babylon and Satan
Fire: fi give you whole…

…darkness for the sun
Melting the chill of winter's turn
So celebrate and let your fires burn
The Lords of Summer have returned…
Straight
Light passes through, penetrate
It's been a long lonely winter
Illumination
Bright
Bathe in the volume and light
Reanimated…
…for the sun
Melting the chill of winter's turn
So celebrate and let your fires burn
The Lords of Summer have returned
Whoa…

…we'll turn to stars
Sun goes out, I won't mind
We're gonna burn forever under darkened skies
Tonight, we'll turn together; oh…
…take over this whole city
This is our time, time to take it
This is our time, time to take it
Illumination
And I don't know why, we…
…darkened skies
Tonight, we'll turn together; tonight, we'll turn to stars
Sun goes out, I won't mind
We're gonna burn…

…darkness for the sun
Melting the chill of winter's turn
So celebrate and let your fires burn
The lords of Summer have returned…
Straight
Light passes through
Penetrate
It's been a long, lonely winter
Illumination
Bright
Bathe in the volume and light
Reanimated…
…darkness for the sun
Melting the chill of winter's turn
So celebrate and let your fires burn
The lords of summer have returned
[Solo…

…darkness for the sun
Melting the chill of winter's turn
So celebrate and let your fires burn
The lords of Summer have returned…
Straight
Light passes through
Penetrate
It's been a long, lonely winter
Illumination
Bright
Bathe in the volume and light
Reanimated…
…darkness for the sun
Melting the chill of winter's turn
So celebrate and let your fires burn
The lords of summer have returned
[Solo…