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Broken by You

American Soul is a journey through the heart of a modern cowboy—raw, reflective, and built on lived experience. Across nine tracks, the album blends gritty realism with emotional storytelling, capturing the quiet moments, heartbreaks, and hard-won strength that shape a man’s character.

It opens with “Cold Coffee Mornings,” a slow-burning reflection on routine and regret, before expanding into the dreamlike hope of “The Breath Between Stars.” Songs like “River Takes the Weight” and “Backroads Built My Heart” explore loss, memory, and the places that raised us, while “Porchlight Glow” brings warmth back into the darkness.

The middle of the record hits harder—“Dirt Road Revival” and “Iron In My Chest” pulse with grit, resilience, and the heavy bass of a life lived close to the edge. “Almost Had You” dives into heartbreak deep enough to leave a scar, while the finale, “Soul Fire Rising,” lifts the listener out of the ashes with a cinematic, powerful sense of rebirth.

From stripped-down acoustic moments to full-bodied, cinematic country crescendos, American Soul captures the dust, the quiet, the storms, and the resilience of a man carving meaning from a wild world—one song at a time.

Iron In My Chest

First Collection: 2006-2009

English House

I Love You, Honeybear

I Went to the Store One Day

The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apt.

Glory to the Lord

Glory to the Lord (feat. R.Kelly)

God, Money, War

Blame It On The Money

Black Blood (feat. Isaiah Rashad & Kent Jamz)

Can't Fade Us

Can't Fade Us (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

Lil Black Boy

Bored in the USA

B-Room

The Truth

Depreston

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Father John Misty's album Pure Comedy is available now on Deluxe 2xLP / 2xLP / CD / DL / CS in Europe through Bella Union and the rest of the world from Sub Pop.

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LYRICS:
The comedy of man starts like this:
Our brains are way too big for our mother’s hips
So, nature, she devised this alternative:
We emerge half-formed and hope whoever greets us on the other end
Is kind enough
To fill us in
And, babies, that’s pretty much how it’s been ever since

Now the miracle of birth leaves a few issues to address
Like say that half of us are periodically iron deficient
So somebody’s gotta go kill something while I look after the kids
I’d do it myself, but what, are you gonna get this thing his milk?
He says as soon as he gets back from the hunt we can switch
It’s hard not to fall in love with something so helpless
Ladies, I hope we don’t end up regretting this

Comedy
Now that’s what I call pure comedy
Just wait until the part where they start to believe
They’re at the center of everything
And some all powerful being
Endowed this horror show with meaning

Their religions are the best
They worship themselves but they’re totally obsessed
With risen zombies, celestial virgins, magic tricks
In these unbelievable outfits
And they get terribly upset
If you question their sacred texts 
Written by woman-hating epileptics

Their languages just tend to confuse them
Their confusion somehow makes them more sure
Now they’re much too bright for the old superstitions 
But they’re yet to find a new one they won’t serve

Where did they find these clowns they elected to rule them
They recline in outrage at the 
These mammals are hell-bent on fashioning new gods
So they can go on being godless animals

Comedy
Their illusions that are all that they can see
Their horizons that just forever recede
How’s this for irony:
Their idea of being free
Is a prison of beliefs
They’ve every right to never leave

Comedy
It’s like something that a madman would conceive
The only thing that seems to makes them feel alive
Is the struggle to survive
But the only thing that they request 
Is something to numb the pain with
Until there’s nothing human left

Just random matter suspended in the dark
Hate to say it, but each other’s all we’ve got

Pure Comedy

Epic Ten

One Day

Bored in the USA

Father John Misty

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