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Riff: Father John Misty – “I Went to the Store One Day”

Feb 11, 2015

Don’t let me die in a hospital, I’ll save the big one for the last time we make love/Insert here a sentiment re: our golden years/All cause I went to the store one day/‘Seen you around, what’s your name?’

from I Went to the Store One Day lyrics by Father John Misty

As best a dénouement ‘honeybear’ could have, Tillman, for the first time in the album reducing his sentiments to his simplest of singer-songwriter roots, spinning gold around the mundane act of going to the deli to get smokes, and the poetics of it turning into the most important moment of his life.

Riff by Gavin Paul

Gavin Paul is SONGLYRICS' Editor-in-Chief. Chicago-bred, New York-sculpted, his words and ideas have appeared in publications ranging from Spin and Rolling Stone to The Chicago Sun-Times and Arborist News.

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