Father John Misty - "Leaving LA" [Official Music Video]
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Father John Misty - "Leaving LA" [Official Music Video]
Father John Misty's official music video for his song "Leaving LA" from the album Pure Comedy, out now on Sub Pop Records and Bella Union.
Directors: Grant James & Josh Tillman
Producer: Lindha Narvaez
Director of Photography: Marc Shap
Camera Op: Chris Klosterman
Assistant Camera: Ryan Guzdzial
Editor: Ben Montez
Colorist: Marshall Plante with NTROPIC
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LYRICS:
I was living on the hill
By the water tower and hiking trails
When the big one hit I’d have a seat
To watch masters abandon their dogs and dogs run free
Come on baby it’s time to leave
Take the van and the hearse down to New Orleans
Leave under the gaze of the billboard queens
Five foot chicks with parted lips selling sweatshop jeans
These LA phonies and their bullshit bands
Just sounds like dollar signs and
So reads the pull quote of my last cover piece
Entitled “The Oldest Man In Folk Rock Speaks”
You can hear it all over the airwaves
The manufactured gasp of the final days
Someone should tell them bout the time that they don't have
To praise the glorious future and the hopeless past
A few things the songwriter needs
Arrows of love, a mask of tragedy
But if you want ecstasy, or birth control
Just run the tap until the water’s cold
Anything else you can get online
Comic gold or a .45
You’re going to need one or the other to survive
Where only the armed or the funny make it out alive
Still I dreamt of garnering all rave reviews
Just believably a little north of God’s own truth
He’s a national treasure now and here’s the proof
In the form of his major label-debut
A little less human with each release
Closing the gap between the mask and me
I swear I never do this, but is it okay
Don’t want to be that guy but it’s my birthday
If everything ends in a photo then I’m on my way
Mara taunts me ‘neath the tree
She’s like “Oh, great, that’s just what they all need
Another white guy in 2017
Who takes himself so goddamn seriously”
She’s not far off, the strange this is
That’s just what I thought when I started this
It took me my whole life to learn to play the G
But the role of Oedipus was just a total breeze
I watch my old gods all collapse
Whoam way more violent than my cartoon past
It’s like my father said before he croaked
“Son, you’re killing me” and “That's all folks!”
So why is it I’m so distraught
That what I’m selling’s getting bought
At some point you can’t control
What people use your fake name for
So I never learned to play the lead guitar
I always more preferred the speaking parts
Besides there’s always someone willing to
Fill up the spaces that I couldn’t use
Nonetheless, I’ve been practicing my whole life
Washing dishes, playing drums, and just getting by
Until I figured if I’m here than I just might
Conceal my lack of skill here in the spotlight
Maya the mother of illusions, a beard, and I
2000 years or so since Ovid taught
Night-blooming teenage rosebuds dirty talk
And I’m merely a minor fascination to
Manic virginal lust and college dudes
I’m beginning to begin to see the end
Of how it all goes down between me and them
Some 10 verse chorus-less diatribe
Plays as they all jump ship, I used to like this guy
But this new shit makes me want to die
My earliest memory of music’s from
The time at JC Penny’s with my mom
The watermelon candy I was choking on
Barbara screaming “Someone, help my son”
I relive it most times the radio’s on
That Tell Me Lies, Sweet Little White lies song
That’s when I first heard the comedy won’t stop for
All the little boys dying in department stores
So we leave town in total silence
New Years Day at 6 o’clock am
Never seen Sunset this abandoned
Reminds me predictably of the world’s end
It’ll be good to get more space
God knows what all these suckers pay
I can stop drinking and you can write your script
What we both think now is
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Its a little short but I like it
LMFAO one of those things where it all makes sense and you have to put it all to the progression and structure it began. Verbiage, but right on. Well. Run on. No man your comments awesome
There’ll probably be a sequel.
ok normie
Well it does feel like it's short
That's what she said
This came out on one of the worst days of my life. I almost got fired, I had been doing molly every weekend for 2 months and was suicidal from the serotonin loss, I got home after being sent home from work started drinking and found this. I was so thankful it really helped me get through that shit. ( just to be clear I'm sober now, still have the same job and am generally much happier)
Hope youre well.
based
@@mease4703 I know now the problem is my comfort zone. gotta break that shit.
Sending you a warm hug from Texas. 💓
Grateful you’re Still Alive!!! 👍🏻👍🏻
Song that gets shorter every time I listen to it
That's when I first saw the comedy won't stop for, even little boys dying in department stores
Love you Farmer John Misery
Roger Wayne "at some point you can't control, what people use your fake name for..."
Lol.
This is Father John Misty's tribute to Josh Tillman's earlier work.
which was awesome in its own right.
@@lysapreneurit was nothing to be ashamed of
"10 verse chorusless diatribe", indeed. Who says self awareness is dead lol
This guy just gets me.
This was the song of my summer.
@@tonyz376 definitely!
music is my life
Me too!! TOTALLY!!!! If he we’re a Planet I’d be on it right now!!!!!
There is no self
thank you, white jesus
Your welcome
Think Iron & Wine might be White Jesus, but it's a close race I guess.
Thank you President Jesus
thank you jesuses and jacobs
So random to run into you at a Jimmy John's in Boise, ID. I wanted to ask for a pic but it was your night off, so I left you alone. Sweet video buddy
Roger Wayne good to know you aren’t the “it’s my birthday” guy hahaha
Aww how nice of you to respect his privacy but that must have been hard!
I've stopped going to JCPenny's because of this song
Bandstand God damn your musical tastes are diverse. I've seen you on King krule videos all the way to Death Grips videos. Good on you.
he only peruses music that melon gives a high rating
I only commented such foolishness in an attempt to evoke a comedic response... also i'm SUPER high on acid right now and I love your channel and also i'm not obby but thats understandable because of this username
I wouldn't call that diverse. But then, I don't know what I would.
...why?
Papa John Fist Me I love you Honeybeard
Im both angry and intrigued
Living through the Australian Bushfire Disaster 2019/2020
You can hear it all over the airwaves
The manufactured gasp of the final days
Someone should tell them ‘bout the time that they don’t have
To praise the glorious future and the hopeless past
I dread to think what lies ahead of you, comment of 2020...
Wherever you are right now, I hope you're safe.
I’m finally drunk and sad enough to listen to this whole thing
It takes, at least, three benders to get it.
Oh come on
Wow, great makeup work, I can barely tell that's Macaulay Culkin
Samuel Cliff *note to myself: don’t eat soup while reading UA-cam comments. You about made me shit myself laughing 😂 😂 😂
Note to self, don't drink alcohol at Josh Tillman's home.
@@LatinaCreamQueen go away gex. i thought i locked you in my basement.
Jesus Christ
Five foot chicks with pouted lips selling sweatshop jeans.
I always hear this line as a direct reference to the "wanna betta butt?" ads all over LA
i think it's "parted" lips
jtleejr that line made me laugh out loud at six in the morning while doing my last line of blow
Night blooming, teenage rose buds, dirty talk. What a deep and dark lyric.
I love Josh he's got to be the greatest American song writer of our age. It's wonderful to hear someone sign a sad song that matches the sadness I feel about life. Long live Father John Misty.
Nah this is the type of song to be played while you have sex with nonagenarians
agree,
You probably aren’t going to see this but I recently read somewhere that sadness carves out more and more space inside you that you can only fill with true joy. I’m not sure how much I believe that but it’s a nice thought anyway
omg youtube: like 5 ads while listening to this song. Totally ruins it, but also kind of adds to FJM's critique of humanity contained within this album.
This song is his masterwork. In 20 years it should be looked at as the defining song of the decade, perfectly incapsulating the feeling of the times.
This song pretty much personifies the feelings and thoughts I had when I moved back home to Virginia from San Diego. You have enough time to reexamine your entire life. Every time I hear it I have images of leaving the CA coast and from the desert and the mountains and of being in the middle of no where by myself. Wondering what the fuck I was going to do now. It’s probably my favorite song on the album although I love the whole thing.
same(ish) for me it was moving from north to south to study engineering
+ JOHN: "MISTY IS A PURE CLEAR CHANNEL. HE IS A HUMANIZED ANGELIC INSTRUMENT. HIS SONGS PRODUCE VIBRATIONAL WAVES AND LYRICAL MESSAGES SPECIFICALLY AIMED AT WAKING UP THE MASSES. MISTY IS A " HOME TEAM PLAYER" FOR THE ASCENSION. FEW POSSESS HIS LEVEL OF TALENT AND PROFICIENCY. " 🙏✨✨🙏🀄🀄💕💕 Channeled by Lena 1:53 (💫◀#9) p.m. 02- 27-2022 (9 + 8: Infinity)✨
I just left SD. The song fits. Listening to it rn from delhi i feel so done with the geography, landscape, architecture, just the general look of things in SoCal.
It may seem superficial but i feel done with those places due to how they quickly get old. Especially SD os not a teeming, youthful, vursting with culture kind of place
Oh, p.s. there a cult of diogenes in sd 🤣
ive always been so awestruck by how perfectly in tune josh sings the word "beard" at 8:50
Every time this song comes on I listen to it in full. It's not only a genius example of self-awareness in writing, nor a beautiful colour commentary on the societal norms of almost every facet of our day to day lives, but a great song that defies convention and standard structure to bring something as deeply personal as it is sardonic.
bruh nah it's some 10 verse chorusless diatribe it rlly kinda makes me wanna die /s
@@cokedupnormies2651 That, too.
This kinda reads like a Patrick Bateman monologue lol
Sad Wizard strikes again
Jim Morrison sounds a lot different than when he was with the Doors
Geeze I started crying and writing poetry to give to my grown kids ... don't worry I pulled myself together. Back to work, determined to do what little I can do.
An amazing look at the frailty of an artist trying to decipher " if he has made it in LA " and what that's truly worth. Introspective and enlightenment you rarely get to witness in the music industry.
Old enough to remember Buddy Holly and Bobby Darin. Heard everybody since. This guy is special.
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 of the billboard queens
Five-foot chicks with parted lips selling sweatshop jeans
These L.A. phonies and their bullshit bands
That sound like dollar signs and Amy Grant
So reads the pulled quote from my last cover piece
Entitled "The Oldest Man in Folk Rock Speaks”
You can hear it all over the airwaves
The manufactured gasp of the final days
Someone should tell them ‘bout the time that they don’t have
To praise the glorious future and the hopeless past
A few things the songwriter needs
Arrows of Love, a mask of Tragedy
But if you want ecstasy or birth control
Just run the tap until the water’s cold
Anything else you can get online
A creation myth or a .45
You're going to need one or the other to survive
Where only the armed or the funny make it out alive
Mara taunts me 'neath the tree
She's like, "Oh great, that's just what we all need
Another white guy in 2017
Who takes himself so goddamn seriously."
She's not far off, the strange thing is
That's pretty much what I thought when I started this
It took me my whole life to learn to the play the G
But the role of Oedipus was a total breeze
Still I dreamt of garnering all rave reviews
Just believably a little north of God's own truth
He's a national treasure now, and here's the proof
In the form of his major label debut
A little less human with each release
Closing the gap between the mask and me
I swear I'll never do this, but is it okay?
Don't want to be that guy but it's my birthday
If everything ends with the photo then I'm on my way
Ohhh-ho-o-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
I watched my old gods all collapse
Were way more violent than my cartoon past
It's like my father said before he croaked
"Son, you're killing me, and that's all folks."
So why is it I'm so distraught
That what I'm selling is getting bought
At some point you just can't control
What people use your fake name for
So I never learned to play the lead guitar
I always more preferred the speaking parts
Besides there's always someone willing to
Fill up the spaces that I couldn't use
Nonetheless, I've been practicing my whole life
Washing dishes, playing drums, and getting by
Until I figured, if I'm here then I just might
Conceal my lack of skill here in the spotlights
Maya, the mother of illusions, a beard, and I
2000 years or so since Ovid taught
Night-blooming, teenage rosebuds, dirty talk
And I'm merely a minor fascination to
Manic virginal lust and college dudes
I'm beginning to begin to see the end
Of how it all goes down between me and them
Some 10-verse chorus-less diatribe
Plays as they all jump ship, "I used to like this guy
This new shit really kinda makes me wanna die"
Ohhh-ho-oh-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
Ohhh-ho-oh-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
My first memory of music's from
The time at JCPenney's with my mom
The watermelon candy I was choking on
Barbara screaming, "Someone help my son!"
I relive it most times the radio's on
That "tell me lies, sweet little white lies" song
That's when I first saw the comedy won't stop for
Even little boys dying in the department store
So we leave town in total silence
New Year's Day, it's 6 o'clock AM
I've never seen Sunset this abandoned
Reminds me predictably of the world's end
It'll be good to get more space
God knows what all these suckers paid
I can stop drinking and you can write your script
But what we both think now is...
Leopoldo Davalos Ayala I disagree
@@diegobrando6742 I disagree
Padre Juan Mister
Loving this year all thanks to you.
Me too. Papa John Fist Me's album leaves a gaping hole in my heart
and dick hole
This is a fucking work of art.
storytelling and self awareness at peak
J. Tillman makes me content with the times I live in. I'm glad I am the age I am at this exact moment. Thank you again, sir. You, truly, are one in ten billion.
Josh Fryer My feelings exactly. Thank you for uttering them so eloquently.
To be fair, I don't think 'content' is where he wants anybody to be in regards to how things are in the world. I do understand the sentiment, though. The type of acumen he effortlessly wields is sorely lacking in our world.
Sion Marc Anthony My feelings exactly. Thank you for uttering them so eloquently.
im so happy i can bed taylor swift every night every night in my oculus rift :)
@@kuro2797 C I I
It’s a little too happy for my taste but I can’t stop listening
That "cool" at the end, perfect. Makes you realize he's a just a music nerd like the rest of us.
How has it already been close to 8 months since pure comedy came out
Because it was released last April?
Almost 3 years, baby.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
I always thought Leaving LA was the lowkey best song on the album. Josh could sing tax laws and it would be pretty captivating.
Timely or prophetic? Or both?
this will remain as one of the best songs i’ve heard in my life
agree.
I like Tubthumpin
"You're gonna need one or the other to survive - where only the armed or the funny make it out alive"
I hope he wins best alternative album at the grammys
Here before -1,388,576 views.
AnotherDamnFilmCritic accurate prediction much?
From the very first note, goosebumps. Head to toe.
You are a better SINGER 🎤 Then Most!! I found your Site today August 1st 2023. 2 Word’s: I’m HOOKED 🪝 What a Blessing you are!!!!!!😇
Top 10 songs of all time
Btw I can’t play the g chord either. I never use my pointer finger
Advertisements breaking this up is harsh
Finally someone said it
It still amazes me on how he made this masterpiece of an album in just two years
The fact that you had to go through all of this, to become the person you are today; I'm just so heartbroken that an entire planet took so much of a toll on you, Josh. Honestly, all that's left to say is, I'm kinda glad that I know this about you.
Thank you for that.
Making of an artist...
He'll be fine.
This is the kind of shit that should be on the radio and people should be talking about This, this is pure art, really I wish people could appreciate and understand papa.
I disliked this!
F*ck em' - you dig it and FJM makes enough to (hopefully) carry on - hopefully that's enough?
He did release a radio edit of the song as a joke, pretty funny
Gracias, Señor Misty.
After listening to this song I started writing my own song (bear in mind I only had 3 decent songs at that point) It came out to 13 minutes and I love it. So Thanks for giving me the inspiration for my best song Father John Misty
I got the same feeling from this song too. And the closer for his new album. They just make me want to write until my hands disintegrate.
If you don't have a premium account UA-cam finds the need to interrupt this beautiful song 3 times.. with 2 ads each time.. Right in the middle of the song.. I'm not making an argument whether you should buy or not buy an account or whether you're cheap to not buy the music or if you've already bought it you're just listening to it here the point is how disgusting that they would interrupt this or any song any song once you've already watched an ad at the beginning and then one at the end why put us an advertisement right in the middle of the music?Because they want to drive you insane to pay their premium account.. Why would I pay a company money that kicked me off several times and ruined channels that I worked numerous years creating..??
This man is pure art, im so glad he received two nominations for the grammys.
Every time I go to jc penny’s they play little lies I think it’s on a fucking playlist. Anyway I hope he wins best album art at the Grammys again
My man. I could of listned to endless verses. Modern day beauty. Simplicity Patience Compassion. ❤
This song just tore me a-fucking-sunder..
Masterpiece... Reading the newsletter mail confirms it was cut from original one-take album recording... Absolutely beautiful !... Thank you for the Berlin show... Life changing experience :)
INCREÍBLE
No cualquiera saca un video de un tema de 13 minutos con 10 versos y sin estribillo!
Un verdadero artista que respeta la obra antes del marketing.
El disco del año!
Josh confirmó que es el registro de la única toma en la que se grabó el tema... Épico!
Donde te pillo jajaja Papi Juan es un artista con todas sus letras y lo ha demostrado en cada presentación que da (o que he visto por lo menos, en youtube xd). Mi sueño es que venga a Latinoamérica para verlo en vivo, ojalá con el disco del prox. año haga una gira por acá y quizás haga una segunda parte de esta canción.
Es un genio
As a songwriter and producer I will say, this is a masterful piece of song work; It is open and honest. The sparse nature really builds upon the emotion conveyed by the lyrics. Not every song has to be a wall of sound that numbs and dumbs the senses; especially one that is the introspective view of the artist. Nice work all 13 plus minutes.
Who disliked this i'll fight you
Twas me mwahahahaha... nah not really, it's too good to dislike
Denisse the best song I ever heard
Exactly, they need to turn on their location.
ryan adams
your voice moves mountains and make the raindrops cry
Ah, fleeing Cali before it was cool. Not a trend that aged well.
Way to drop an ad right in the middle, UA-cam 🤦🏻♂️
Josh Tillman .... if you read this this is the song I listen to when I walk my dog
I know right
An ad in the middle of this? Seriously?
and the radio play's endless crap.
Reminiscent of Desolation Row
I’m like in the fucking zone with this song then he puts a ad in the middle. PAAAAAAAAIN
Wow so many thoughts and yet - “what we both think now is...”
Father Snark Misty
Why does everyone from the west coast think New Orleans is the place to be? One of my friends (I live in Porltand OR area) just left to go move to New Orleans for no reason other than to get away. I don't think it's because of this song, lol, but then again she did say she liked John Misty.
Not bad for a 10 verse chorus less diatribe
Feel like this is his version of Neil Young's "Natural Beauty"... long beautiful ballad
Such an incredible experience this song has given me!
play this at my funeral no cap
On God
Fader Jon Musky
This song is about me
Not bad for a drummer
Pai João das névoas always good to see you grew your hair again
And still no eyebrows,of course
Wow fuck UA-cam adding midroll to Josh’s most personal song he’s ever released. For fucking shame.
Absolute masterpiece. I discovered the Pure Comedy album four years later than its release. The insurrection on The Capitol occurred. I was busy painting my house in Va. This album and song has been a comfort in these dark days. Thank you FJM. You are my my list as the first artist to see live post pandemic.
these times are so different than when recorded and that's amazingly ear hole opening
Took a train from seattle to LA. California was terrible and very overrated. Glad to see a song talks more shit about it too
It turns out this man was also a prophet.
Stunning.
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 of the billboard queens
Five-foot chicks with parted lips selling sweatshop jeans
These L.A. phonies and their bullshit bands
That sound like dollar signs and Amy Grant
So reads the pulled quote from my last cover piece
Entitled "The Oldest Man in Folk Rock Speaks”
You can hear it all over the airwaves
The manufactured gasp of the final days
Someone should tell them ‘bout the time that they don’t have
To praise the glorious future and the hopeless past
A few things the songwriter needs
Arrows of Love, a mask of Tragedy
But if you want ecstasy or birth control
Just run the tap until the water’s cold
Anything else you can get online
A creation myth or a .45
You're going to need one or the other to survive
Where only the armed or the funny make it out alive
Mara taunts me 'neath the tree
She's like, "Oh great, that's just what we all need
Another white guy in 2017
Who takes himself so goddamn seriously."
She's not far off, the strange thing is
That's pretty much what I thought when I started this
It took me my whole life to learn to the play the G
But the role of Oedipus was a total breeze
Still I dreamt of garnering all rave reviews
Just believably a little north of God's own truth
He's a national treasure now, and here's the proof
In the form of his major label debut
A little less human with each release
Closing the gap between the mask and me
I swear I'll never do this, but is it okay?
Don't want to be that guy but it's my birthday
If everything ends with the photo then I'm on my way
Ohhh-ho-o-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
I watched my old gods all collapse
Were way more violent than my cartoon past
It's like my father said before he croaked
"Son, you're killing me, and that's all folks."
So why is it I'm so distraught
That what I'm selling is getting bought
At some point you just can't control
What people use your fake name for
So I never learned to play the lead guitar
I always more preferred the speaking parts
Besides there's always someone willing to
Fill up the spaces that I couldn't use
Nonetheless, I've been practicing my whole life
Washing dishes, playing drums, and getting by
Until I figured, if I'm here then I just might
Conceal my lack of skill here in the spotlights
Maya, the mother of illusions, a beard, and I
2000 years or so since Ovid taught
Night-blooming, teenage rosebuds, dirty talk
And I'm merely a minor fascination to
Manic virginal lust and college dudes
I'm beginning to begin to see the end
Of how it all goes down between me and them
Some 10-verse chorus-less diatribe
Plays as they all jump ship, "I used to like this guy
This new shit really kinda makes me wanna die"
Ohhh-ho-oh-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
Ohhh-ho-oh-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
My first memory of music's from
The time at JCPenney's with my mom
The watermelon candy I was choking on
Barbara screaming, "Someone help my son!"
I relive it most times the radio's on
That "tell me lies, sweet little white lies" song
That's when I first saw the comedy won't stop for
Even little boys dying in the department store
So we leave town in total silence
New Year's Day, it's 6 o'clock AM
I've never seen Sunset this abandoned
Reminds me predictably of the world's end
It'll be good to get more space
God knows what all these suckers paid
I can stop drinking and you can write your script
But what we both think now is...
I love his work. Helps keep me skeptical but not cynical. If that makes sense.
I Totally Get that too!! And same here!!!!!!!👍🏻👍🏻
Bought the Vinyl "Pure Comedy" Amazing
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 of the billboard queens
Five-foot chicks with parted lips selling sweatshop jeans
These LA phonies and their bullshit bands
Sound like dollar signs and Amy Grant
So reads the pull quote from my last cover piece
Entitled "The Oldest Man in Folk Rock Speaks"
You can hear it all over the airwaves
The manufactured gasp of the final days
Someone should tell them 'bout the time that they don't have
To praise the glorious future and the hopeless past
A few things the songwriter needs
Arrows of love, a mask of tragedy
But if you want ecstasy or birth control
Just run the tap until the water's cold
Anything else, you can get online
A creation myth or a .45
You're going to need one or the other to survive
Where only the armed or the funny make it out alive
Mara taunts me 'neath the tree
She's like, "Oh great, that's just what we all need
Another white guy in 2017
Who takes himself so goddamn seriously"
She's not far off, the strange thing is
That's pretty much what I thought when I started this
It took me my whole life to learn to the play the G
But the role of Oedipus was a total breeze
Still, I dreamt of garnering all rave reviews
Just believably a little north of God's own truth
"He's a national treasure now and here's the proof
In the form of his major label debut"
A little less human with each release
Closing the gap between the mask and me
I swear I never do this, but is it okay?
Don't want to be that guy but it's my birthday
If everything ends with the photo then I'm on my way
I watched my old gods all collapse
Were way more violence than my cartoon past
It's like my father said before he croaked
"Son, you're killing me and that's all folks"
So why is it I'm so distraught
That what I'm selling is getting bought?
At some point you just can't control
What people use your fake name for
So I never learned to play the lead guitar
I always more preferred the speaking parts
Besides, there's always someone willing to
Fill up the spaces that I couldn't use
Nonetheless, I've been practicing my whole life
Washing dishes, playing drums, and getting by
Until I figured, if I'm here then I just might
Conceal my lack of skill here in the spotlights
Maya, the mother of illusions, a beard, and I
Two-thousand years or so since Ovid taught
Night-blooming, teenage rosebuds, dirty talk
And I'm merely a minor fascination to
Manic virginal lust and college dudes
I'm beginning to begin to see the end
Of how it all goes down between me and them
Some ten verse chorus-less diatribe
Plays as they all jump ship, "I used to like this guy
This new shit really kind of makes me want to die"
My first memory of music's from
The time at JCPenneys with my mom
The watermelon candy I was choking on
Barbara screaming, "Someone help my son!"
I relive it most times the radio's on
That "tell me lies, sweet little white lies" song
That's when I first saw the comedy won't stop for
Even little boys dying in the department store
So we leave town in total silence
New Year's Day, it's six o'clock AM
I've never seen a sunset this abandoned
Reminds me predictably of the world's end
It'll be good to get more space
God knows what all these suckers pay
I can stop drinking and you can write your script
But what we both think now is
Witty, intelligent, true. Nuff' said
All hail Fava Bean Pepsi
I think this is actually the take from the album. He said he recorded all at once, very impressive if so. :)
If you like this song you're in luck because it never ends.
Notice me senpai
Its been said before of course, youre the spokesman of this blah blah - your the voice of this time papa john - bleak sad songs that so fit this shitty beautiful time we're all in . . . keep it up...
-"Amy Grant"
LOL "amy grant" left out from the lyric sheet?
Thx for a pretty song Daddy Jeffery Smoggy!
Some said T Swift is the "new" Bob Dylan.. HA.NO...it's FJM!!! He has a consciousness, a World view, a sense of the absurd, a sense of the insanity, a sense of nonsense.
Piggy-218 hahaha who on earth said that? Lol Taylor Swift is nothing but a prepackaged industry puppet trying to mimic Lana Del Rey’s ideas here and there and a total waste of space making money machine with a boring voice who for reasons unknown to me gets to have more grip on the masses than others who are literally identical to her. Where did you get that new bob Dylan bullshit from? Lol I can’t stop laughing at how ridiculous it is. XD
It was posted on several music blogs. as well as even in the abob DYlan facebook page for discussion lol.I agree with you 100%