Should Have Known Better (track) by Sufjan Stevens
Year: 2015
From the album Carrie & Lowell (track #2)


Should Have Known Better appears on the following album(s) by Sufjan Stevens:
- Carrie & Lowell (track #2) (this album) (2015)
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What a beautiful song! It does remind me of paranoid android in the guitar but you can see that this song is so much more!

Sort of like a folk paranoid android.

One of the best songs of 2015, that second half is filled with such beautiful melodies.

the keyboard in the second half gives me flashbacks to Jim Wise, and also I think this might be my favorite song by Sufjan
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