It's thematically similar (or exact to) IGY by Fagen of Steely Dan..but nobody fucking picked up on it then so, why not say it again. Misty's so jaded and ballsy and wild, I'll resist a Dylan comparison. But. Hey, a songwriter's saying shit! PS MISTY is our generation's Dylan?

‘Is this progress? Like, is this really what progress looks like?’

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Big Time

All The Good Times

"Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)" from Father John Misty's forthcoming album "I Love You, Honeybear" out February 9th on Bella Union (Europe) and February 10th on Sub Pop (North America / Rest of World).

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Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)

Taken from the LP: "Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Think" - Released on March 23rd Worldwide


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PEDESTRIAN AT BEST was written by Courtney Barnett

I love you I hate you 
I’m on the fence it all depends 
whether I’m up I’m down 
I’m on the mend 
transcending all reality. 
I like you despise you admire you 
what are we gonna do 
when everything all falls through? 
I must confess I’ve made a mess 
of what should be a small success 
but I digress 
at least I’ve tried my very best I guess. 
This that the other 
why even bother, 
it won’t be with me on my death bed, 
but I’ll still be in your head.

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

My internal monologue 
is saturated analogue, 
It’s scratched and drifting, 
I’ve become attached to the idea 
it’s all a shifting dream bitter sweet philosophy, 
I’ve got no idea how I even got here. 
I’m resentful 
I’m having an existential time crisis, 
what bliss, daylight savings won’t fix this mess. 
Underworked and oversexed 
I must express my disinterest, 
the rats are back inside my head 
what would Freud have said?

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

I wanna wash out my head with turpentine and cyanide,
I dislike this internal diatribe 
when I try to catch your eye 
I hate seeing you crying in the kitchen 
I don’t know why it affects me like this when you’re not even mine to consider.
Erroneous.
Harmonious.
I’m hardly sanctimonious.
Dirty clothes, I suppose, 
we all outgrow ourselves.
I’m a fake, 
I’m a phoney, 
I’m awake, 
I’m alone, 
I’m homely, 
I’m a Scorpio.

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

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Pedestrian At Best

MY WOMAN

Shut Up Kiss Me

The Age of Adz

Impossible Soul (feat. My Brightest Diamond)

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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

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LYRICS:

Naturally the Dying Man wonders to himself
Had his commentary been more lucid than anybody else?
And had he successfully beaten back the rising tide
Of idiots, dilettantes and fools
That were on his watch 
While he was alive
Lord, just a little more time

Oh, in no time at all this will be the distant past

So says the Dying Man once I’m in the box
Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok
And all of the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked
The homophobes, hipsters and one percent
The false feminists he’d managed to detect
Who will critique them once he’s left?

In no time at all this will be the distant past

What he’d give for one more day to rate and analyze
The world made in his image as of yet to realize
What a mess to leave behind 

Eventually the Dying Man takes his final breath
But first checks his newsfeed to see what he’s about to miss
It occurs to him a little late in the game
We leave as clueless as we came
From the rented heavens to the shadows in the cave
We’ll all be wrong one day

We’ll all be wrong someday

Ballad Of The Dying Man

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Lyrics:
Bedding Taylor Swift
Every night inside the Oculus Rift
After mister and the missus finish dinner and the dishes
And now the future's definition is so much higher than it was last year
It's like the images have all become real
And someone's living my life for me out in the mirror

No, can you believe how far we've come
In the New Age?
Freedom to have what you want
In the New Age we'll all be entertained
Rich or poor, the channels are all the same
You're a star now, baby, so dry your tears
You're just like them
Wake on up from the nightmare

Come on
Oh ho oh
Oh
Oh ho oh

No gods to rule us
No drugs to soothe us
No myths to prove stuff
No love to confuse us

Not bad for a race of demented monkeys
From a cave to a city to a permanent party

Come on
Oh ho oh
Oh
Oh ho oh

When the historians find us we'll be in our homes
Plugged into our hubs
Skin and bones
A frozen smile on every face
As the stories replay
This must have been a wonderful place

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LYRICS:
It got too hot and so we overthrew the system
'Cause there's no place for human existence like right here
On this bright blue marble orbited by trash
Man, there's no beating that
It was no big thing to give up the way of life we had

Oh ho oh

My social life is now quite a bit less hectic
The nightlife and the protests are pretty scarce
Now I mostly spend the long days walking through the city
Empty as a tomb
Sometimes I miss the top of the food chain
But what a perfect afternoon

Industry and commerce toppled to their knees
The gears of progress halted
The underclass set free
The super-ego shatters with our ideologies
The obscene injunction to enjoy life
Disappears as in a dream
And as we return to out native state
To our primal scene
The temperature, it started dropping
The ice floes began to freeze

From time to time we all get a bit restless
With no one advertising to us constantly
But the tribe at the former airport
Some nights has meat and dancing
If you don't mind gathering and hunting
We're all still pretty good at eating on the run
Things it would have been helpful to know before the revolution

Though I'll admit some degree of resentment
For the sudden lack of convenience around here
But there are some visionaries among us developing some products
To aid us in our struggle to survive

On this godless rock that refuses to die

Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution

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Father John Misty's album Pure Comedy is out now Bella Union (Europe) and the rest of the world on Sub Pop.

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LYRICS:
Take off, little winged creature
It's nothing but teens in ravines
And antics on concrete down here
And are you really as free as all the great songs would have me believe?
Let me tell you why some day, Birdie, you're gonna envy me

Some dream of a world written in lines of code
Well, I hope they engineer out politics, romance, and edifice
Two outta three ain't bad

Some envision a state governed by laws of business
Merger and acquisition instead of violence or nations
Where do I sign up?

Take off, little winged creature
It's nothing but falling debris, strollers, and babies down here
And you may be up in the sky but our paradigms are just as deep and just as wide
What with all our best attempts at transcendence
Something's bound to take

Soon, we'll live in a global culture devoid of gender or race
There's just one tiny line:
You're either born behind
Or you're free to peek inside

Life as just narrative, metadata in aggregate
Where the enigma of humanity's wrapped up finally
That as they say is that

Oh, that day can't come soon enough
It'll be so glorious
When they finally find out what's bugging us

Birdie

Father John Misty's song "Mr. Tillman" is off of his new album, God's Favorite Customer, out now on Sub Pop and Bella Union. 

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God's Favorite Customer

Mr. Tillman

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LYRICS: 
One more wasted morning when I could be holding you to my side
Somebody stop this joyless joy ride
I’m feeling older than my 35 years 

One more cryptic message thinking that I might end it
Oh God, you must have woken up to me saying that it’s all too much
I’ll take it easy with the morbid stuff 

Oh, honey I’m worried about you
You’re too much to lose
You’re all that I have
And honey I’m worried about you
Put yourself in my shoes 
You’re all that I have, so please don’t die
Wherever you are tonight

All these pointless benders with reptilian strangers
Oh my God, you’re so naïve
You’ll leave this world in a drunken heap
Who’ll make the arrangements, baby them or me?

Honey, I’m worried about you
You’re too much to lose
You’re all that I have
And honey, I’m worried about you
Put yourself in my shoes 
You’re all that I have
You’re all that I have
You’re all that I have, so please don’t die
Wherever you are tonight

Please Don't Die

"Hangout at the Gallows" is off of Father John Misty's new album, God's Favorite Customer, out now on Sub Pop and Bella Union. 

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LYRICS: 

Sun is rising
Black is turning blue
Look out buddy, Noah’s calling, 
“Jesus man, what did you do?” 

Psychic terrorists
In the upper room
Left foot, right foot, that’s the ticket
You’ll be back on top real soon 

Whose bright idea was it to sharpen the knives? 
Just 20 minutes before the boat capsized
If you want an answer it’s anybody’s guess
I’m treading water as I bleed to death 

What’s your politics? What’s your religion? 
What’s your intake, your reason for living? 

In your compositions
At the start of every song
Find you waking in the morning
Always there to greet the dawn 

Trouble sleeping
My alarm goes off
So you want to hangout at the gallows? 
Those guys get an early start 

Whose bright idea was it to sharpen the knives? 
Just 20 minutes before the boat capsized
If you want an answer it’s anybody’s guess
I’m treading water as I bleed to death 

What’s your politics? What’s your religion? 
What’s your intake, your reason for living?

Hangout at the Gallows

Hangout At The Gallows

"God's Favorite Customer" is off of Father John Misty's new album, God's Favorite Customer, out now on Sub Pop and Bella Union.

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LYRICS: 
Another night on the straights
All bug-eyed and babbling
Out on the corner of 7th and A 

“I’m in the business of living”
Yeah, that’s something I’d say
All I need is a new friend
I’m only five blocks away

Speak to me
Won’t you speak, sweet angel?
Don’t you remember me?
I was God’s favorite customer 
Beware the man who has everything
Everything that he wants
You can spot him from a mile away in his gold chain and only one pair of socks

I’m out here testing the maxim
That all good things have to stop
The bar closes at five but the big man is just opening shop

Speak to me
(Won’t you speak to me?)
Won’t you speak, sweet angel?
Don’t you remember me?
(Don’t you remember me?)
I was God’s favorite customer

But now I’m in trouble
Speak to me
(Oh, speak to me)
Won’t you speak, sweet angel? I need some company
(I need some company)
I swear just one more night longer

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