“Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry? Tell me what did you learn
From the Tillamook burn
Or the Fourth of July?
We're all gonna die”

— Sufjan Stevens

"Fourth of July"
Lyrics, Carrie and Lowell (2015)

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American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1975

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