 Genius Lyrics
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Father John Misty – In Twenty Years or So
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In “In Twenty Years or So,” Tillman addresses the cosmic indifference of the universe and the existential fear that comes with it. In the first two verses he sets up the great
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Father John Misty – The Next 20th Century
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The nazis that we hired / For our wedding band / Played your anthem like I wasn't there / For the father-daughter dance / From the boondocks of Egypt / To the nosebleeds at Calvary
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Father John Misty – When You're Smiling and Astride Me
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Another song clearly influenced by his wife, Emma, “When You’re Smiling and Astride Me” is as close to a truly sentimental statement as Tillman has ever made in his music.
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Father John Misty – Holy Shit
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Tillman wrote this song on his wedding day, explaining:
The way that I felt on my wedding day was just so, so wild. To make a decision like that based on something you believe in
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Father John Misty – Mr. Tillman
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“Mr. Tillman” is the eponymous first single from Father John Misty’s fourth studio album God’s Favorite Customer, released on February 20, 2018. It was debuted live at Third Man
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Father John Misty – Leaving LA
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Father John Misty begins “Leaving LA” as a critique of Los Angeles and its culture but soon turns it into an introspective critique of himself as an artist instead, demonstrating
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Father John Misty – I Went to the Store One Day
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“I Went to the Store One Day” is a treatise on Tillman’s love with his wife, Emma, that delves into their past, present, and future, bookended by the day they first met in the
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Father John Misty – Total Entertainment Forever
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“Total Entertainment Forever” is Father John Misty’s vision of the frightening reality our society is heading towards. He warns against allowing technology to progress to the point
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Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
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“Pure Comedy” debuted online on January 23, 2017, along with a video directed by Matthew Daniel Siskin. It was first performed live at a benefit concert for the Seattle Children’s
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Father John Misty – The Ideal Husband
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A few of the songs on this album had brief outlines before his wife, Emma, came along. Such tracks include “The Ideal Husband” and “Strange Encounter,” though the final versions
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Father John Misty – True Affection
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Fittingly, the most electronically-tinged song on Misty’s discography up to this point is about communicating through technology rather than face-to-face.
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Father John Misty – Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
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This song chronicles a sort of post-apocalyptic world in the aftermath of severe climate shifts. The defining details relate a world where humanity is now focused primarily on
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Father John Misty – Main Man
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Are you my main man? / Are you now? / Are you now? / Are you my main man? / Are you now? / Are you now? / Are you now? / Are you a God man? / Are you now? / Are you now? / Are you
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Father John Misty – Real Love Baby
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[Verse] / Our hearts are free / So tell me what's wrong with the feeling / I'm a flower, you're the bee / It's much older than you and me / I'm in love, I'm alive / I belong to the
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Father John Misty – The Songwriter
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In this song, Father John Misty speaks to his wife Emma Tillman about a hypothetical scenario where she is the musician and he is the muse. He uses this viewpoint in a reflective
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Father John Misty – The Memo
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Father John Misty’s first new track since releasing I Love You, Honeybear earlier in 2015, “The Memo” keeps thematically with the cultural criticism of “Bored in the USA” and “Holy
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Father John Misty – The Palace
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“The Palace” refers to Father John Misty’s hotel where this album was conceived. Accompanied with a soft minor key and haunting piano, Tillman speaks about hiding away in his hotel
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Father John Misty – Trouble
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[Verse 1] / Trouble, oh, trouble, set me free / I have seen your face / And it’s too much too much for me / Trouble, oh, trouble, can’t you see? / You’re eating my heart away / And
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Father John Misty – Bored in the USA
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The lead single from Father John Misty’s sophomore album, I Love You, Honeybear (2014), is indebted to Bruce Springsteen’s seminal track “Born in the U.S.A.”, both in title and
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Father John Misty – Fallin' Rain
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[Verse 1] / I hear a sound / It's going through my brain / I hear talk of people / I feel the fallin' rain / [Verse 2] / I see a man crying / 'Cause the whole world has let him
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Father John Misty – A Bigger Paper Bag
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This song is about narcissism and self-absorption. He is using alcohol, drugs and ego to shield himself from the world and other people. He ends the song by telling himself that
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Father John Misty – I'm Writing a Novel
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At face value, this song references Josh Tillman’s period where he relocated to Hollywood’s Laurel Canyon in order to write a novel, but ended up instead creating the Father John
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Father John Misty – The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apt.
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“The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apt.” is the fourth track on I Love You, Honeybear. It plays as an odious ode to a lover — presumably not his “honeybear” — and recounts the
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Father John Misty – Funny Girl
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[Verse 1] / Funny girl, you look so unassuming / Right up until the room you're captivating / Starts to fill with gut-busting laughter / And you're transformed into a five foot
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Father John Misty – Please Don't Die
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During the writing of God’s Favorite Customer, Josh was struggling with his previously documented depression as well as particularly bad set of delusions that he describes as a “
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Father John Misty – To R.
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[Verse 1] / I found you once, and I'll find you again / Your cells are ringin' bells, singin, "God is dead" / God is dead, God is dyin' / The poison's in the dose, true / And I've
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Father John Misty – Ballad of the Dying Man
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The fourth song released ahead of Pure Comedy, “Ballad of a Dying Man” tells the story of a man who foolishly views his own social commentary as important to society at large. His
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Father John Misty – Chloë
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Chloë is the opening track of the album Chloë and the Next 20th Century. The song has a “debonair delivery with an amnesiac effect of a film without phones or calendars, suggesting
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Father John Misty – Birdie
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On “Birdie” Father John Misty sings about the prospects of the future of mankind, through a metaphor of a bird. He’s trying to convince the bird to rise above the struggles of an
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Father John Misty – God's Favorite Customer
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Joshua Tillman was raised in a very religious household in Maryland. His parents were evangelicals and he attended a private Pentecostal school where he was once sent home to
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Father John Misty – Kiss Me (I Loved You)
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[Verse 1] / I swore I wouldn't do this / The wine's gone to my head / The ferryman's been stranded / Stay with me tonight instead / [Verse 2] / The end will not befall us / The sky
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Father John Misty – Q4
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[Verse 1] / Simone writes little of much consequence / Unless the theater’s how you pay the rent / A new work of some semi-memoir sits / Inside the weekend book editors desk / And
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Father John Misty – Anthem
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[Verse 1] / The birds they sang / At the break of day / Start again / I heard them say / Don't dwell on what / Has passed away / Or what is yet to be / [Verse 2] / Ah, the wars
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Father John Misty – Smoochie
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This song is about how Josh’s wife helps him through his depressive states, with reference to their pet name – ‘Smoochie’
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Father John Misty – Everything Is Free
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A cover of Gillian Welch’s song off of her third studio album, ‘Time (The Revelator)', released in July 2001.
The song approaches the business of music streaming and the
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Father John Misty – Buddy’s Rendezvous
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[Verse 1] / Everybody's girl / What's the point in being everybody's girl? / Maybe you think that way there's no chance getting hurt / Living for no one costs me way more than it's
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Father John Misty – Trump's Private Pilot
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I am Donald Trump's private pilot / And I fly him everywhere / Taxi him to his outdoor rallies / Where he gives you all a scare / I've set up a fund for my children / And you can
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Father John Misty – Two Wildly Different Perspectives
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Father John Misty – Funtimes in Babylon
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The first song is a bookend to the album, Addressing his many fears that come with being famous, very sarcastically calls them fun times
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Father John Misty – Goodbye Mr. Blue
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Produced by Josh Tillman and Jonathan Wilson, “Goodbye Mr. Blue” is the third single and one of many story telling songs on Chloë and the Next 20th Century.
This song is about a
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Father John Misty – To S.
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[Verse 1] / Flyin' on past in your voodoo mask / High on your own supply / And the way that you hold my hand to the bone / Honestly ain't half bad / [Chorus] / No / What about life
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