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The U.P. has a mostly rural, conservative population. Sufjan’s songs are often narrated from the perspective of a fictional character, and the narrator of this song seems to be a rural lower class husband and father who has become isolated and separated from his wife and son by “strange ideas” (you...
I live in America
With a pair of Payless shoes
The upper peninsula
And the television news
And I've seen my wife
At the K-Mart
In strange ideas
We live apart
I live in a trailer home
With a snow mobile, my car
The window is broken out
And the interstate is far
I drove all night
To find my child
In strange ideas
He's been reviled
In strange ideas
In stranger times
I've no idea
What's right sometimes
I lost my mind
I lost my life
I lost my job
I lost my wife
The Upper Peninsula was written by Sufjan Stevens.
The Upper Peninsula was produced by Sufjan Stevens.
Sufjan Stevens released The Upper Peninsula on Tue Jul 01 2003.