Father John Misty

Dance like a butterfly and drink like a fish If you're bent on taking demons down with only your fist And I've never known anyone who could lose himself in a bigger paper bag The weaker the signal, the sweeter the noise Hunching over an instrument that you...

Naturally the dying man wonders to himself: Has commentary been more elusive than anybody else? And had he successfully beaten back the rising tide Of idiots, dilettantes, and fools On his watch while he was alive Lord, just a little more time Oh, in no...

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...

How many people rise and say "My brain's so awfully glad to be here For yet another mindless day"? Now, I've got all morning to obsessively accrue A small nation of meaningful objects And they've got to represent me too By this afternoon, I'll live in...

Emma eats bread and butter Like a queen would have ostrich and cobra wine We’ll have satanic Christmas Eve And play piano in the Chateau lobby I’ve never done this Baby, be gentle It’s my first time I’ve got you inside People are boring But you’re so...

Nothing surprises me much And my hobbies include laughing in the dark Do you wanna go to the farm? Do you wanna go to the park? I’ll get you ice cream if you give me your card Nothing impresses me much I’ve got a great attitude and a map to the star...

[Verse 1] Like a pervert on a crowded bus A glare of love bears down on us Like a carcass left out in the heat This love is bursting out of me [Chorus] Disappointing diamonds are the rarest of them all And a love that lasts forever really can't be that...

Everyman needs a companion Someone to turn his thoughts to I know I do Everyman needs a companion Someone to console him Like I need you John the baptist took Jesus Christ Down to the river on a Friday night They talked about Mary like a couple of boy...

Everything is free now That's what they say Everything I ever done Gotta give it away Someone hit the big score They figured it out That we're gonna do it anyway Even if doesn't pay I can get a tip jar Gas up the car And try to make a little change...

Fun times in Babylon That's what I'm counting on Before the dam goes up at the foot of the sea Before the new wing of the prison ribbon ceremony Before the star of the morning comes looking for me I would like to abuse my lungs Smoke everything in sight...

Another night on the straits 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 Hmmm mmm mmmm... Oh-oh-oh-oh... Speak to me Won'...

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 t...

Jesus Christ, girl What are people gonna think When I show up to one of several funerals I've attended for grandpa this week With you With me Someone's got to help me dig Someone's got to help me dig Jesus Christ, girl It hasn't been long so it seem...

Ancient holy wars Dead religions, holocausts New regimes, old ideas That's now myth, that's now real Original sin, genetic fate Revolutions, spinning plates It's important to stay informed The commentary to comment on Oh, and no one ever really knows...

[Verse 1] Oh, honeybear, honeybear, honeybear Mascara, blood, ash and cum On the Rorschach sheets where we make love Honeybear, honeybear, honeybear You fuck the world damn straight malaise It may be just us who feel this way But don't ever doubt this,...

We met in a parking lot I was buying coffee and cigarettes Firewood and bad wine long since gone But I'm still drunk and hot, wide awake, breathing hard Now, in just one year's time I've become jealous, rail-thin Prone to paranoia when I'm stoned If thi...

I ran down the road, pants down to my knees Screaming "please come help me, that Canadian shaman gave a little too much to me!" And I'm writing a novel because it's never been done before First house that I saw I wrote house up on the door And told the pe...

What's there to lose For a ghost in a cheap rental suit Clinging to a rock that is hurtling through space? And what's to regret For a speck on a speck on a speck Made more ridiculous the more serious he gets? Oh, it's easy to forget Oh, I read somewh...

[Verse 1] I know a few ten-cent words I can break out to keep up with her But you can take what I know about love And drown it in the sink [Verse 2] I know my way around a tune Won't be a single dry eye in a room But you can take what I know about you...

I was living on the hill By the water tower and hiking trails And when the big one hit I’d have a seat To watch masters abandon their dogs and dogs run free Oh baby, it’s time to leave Take the van and the hearse down to New Orleans Leave under the gaze...

No crickets, no creatures are a stirring On the last night of the Chinese year I need a warm hand over the water Ever since I lost mine Fireworks disaster I laid up wide awake Gonna take my life Gonna take my life back one day Now I'm watching you ch...

[Verse 1] Mr. Tillman, good to see you again There's a few outstanding charges just before we check you in Let's see here, you left your passport in the mini fridge And the message with the desk says here the picture isn't his And oh, just a reminder abou...

Oh pour me another drink And punch me in the face You can call me Nancy Every man wears a symbol And I know I have mine I've got my right hand stamped In the concentration camp where my organs scream "slow down, man!" How was I to know That milk and h...

Living it up Have it all Pull more women than any two men or train can haul But my baby, she does something way more impressive than the Georgia Crawl She blackens pages like a Russian romantic Gets down more often than a blowup doll Why the long face,...

Try not to think so much about The truly staggering amount of oil that it takes to make a record All the shipping, the vinyl, the cellophane lining The high gloss The tape and the gear Try not to become too consumed With what's a criminal volume of oil...

Everyone's riding on the rolling tide Their hearts are heavy and the sea is wide I'll never make it to the other side, friends of mine O I long to feel your arms around me O I long to feel your arms around me O my love O my love 

When I heard the ladiesman was dead I saw the rolling stone stopped moving Saw my ancient hero on the Sunset Strip He left behind a legacy of ruin Now painted ladies want to hold my gun Wonder if the whole time if I'd been acting When I sang "Moon River"...

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 to...

[Taped news anchor: At six] [Studio talk: For some reason when I go...] The comedy of man starts like this Our brains are way too big for our mothers' hips And so Nature, she divines this alternative We emerged half-formed and hope that whoever greets us...

Our hearts Are free So tell me what's wrong with the feeling I'm a flower, you're my bee It's much older than you and me I'm in love, I'm alive I belong to the stars and sky Let's forget who we are for one night We're not animals baby It's the people...

When my personal demons are screaming And when my door of madness is half-open You stand alongside And say something to the effect that everything'll be Alright Soon Smoochie Chaos attends to creation And when the shadows inside me vie for attention...

That was the last New Year I'll ever see And I wanna stay on that magic mountain With lost souls and beautiful women I drank some of Farmer's potion And we were moving in slow motion The slower, the better The slower, the better 'Cause there's no one o...

Only ever be the girl who just almost died in my house Half naked, looking through your telephone Run you a bath and try hard not to freak out [Pre-Chorus] It's all free and too easy, giving it away, giving it away It's not cheap but here I am, giving it...

Well, you took me to the movies You took me to the dance You took me to your warehouse Tied up in the back of your van You said, "Whip it out" And I started to shout "I'm in love with the woman again" Well, you took me to your office We went to meet y...

Julian He's gonna take my files Every woman that I've slept with Every friendship I've neglected Didn't call when grandma died I spend my money getting drunk and high I've done things unprotected Proceeded to drive home wasted Bought things to win over...

I'm gonna steal some bedsheets From an amputee I'm gonna mount em on a canvas In the middle of the gallery I'm gonna tell everybody It was painted by a chimpanzee Just between you and me Here at the cultural low watermark If it's fraud or art They'll...

Oh, I just love the kind of woman who can walk over a man I mean like a god damn marching band She says, like literally, music is the air she breathes And the malaprops make me want to fucking scream I wonder if she even knows what that word means Well, i...

It’s only been three weeks And a bag of speed from Jamie the PhD She comes by the front desk To leave my transcript with her edits ‘Cause I don’t wanna leave the Palace At least that’s what my true love calls it Last night I wrote a poem Man, I mus...

What would it sound like if you were the songwriter And you made your living off of me? Would you detail your near constant consternation With the way my very presence makes your muses up and flee? Goodbye little songbird, I can leave Goodbye my love...

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...

Born the daughter of a comedian Middle of the 80s Someone turn that awful mouth-breathing down Or else Sally Hatchet lives in a hole in the ground The longer it keeps raining the more she has to struggle to maintain a wonderful time Oh yeah Oh wanna t...

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...

When can we talk With the face Instead of using all these strange devices? Seems like You and I Need to have a crazy conversation Wouldn't be that hard Get along so well Sentence by sentence It's a trial run Let me show you how Figure I can give you...

One side says: “Y’all go to hell” The other says: “If I believed in God I’d send you there” But either way we make some space In the hell that we create On both sides One side says: “Kill ‘em all” The other says: “Line those killers up against the w...

People, we’re only people And there’s not much anyone can do – really do – about that But it hasn’t stopped us yet People, we know so little about ourselves But just enough to wanna be nearly anybody else Now how does that add up? Oh friends, all...

If you see a flaming sword in your dreams at night And feel inspired to assign me up to the front line Well give the order, you'll storm the border without me If they tell you you're a genius but you need some proof Ask anybody on the payroll to go out wi...

When the god of love returns There'll be hell to pay Though the world may be out of excuse I know just what I would say That the seven trumpets sound As a locust sky grows dark But first let's take you on a quick tour of your creation's handiwork Billy...

There's no need to fear me Darling, I love you as you are when you're alone I'll never try to change you As if I could, and if I were to, what's the part that I'd miss most? When you're smiling and astride me I can hardly believe I've found you and I'm te...