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Riff: Father John Misty – “The Ideal Husband”

Feb 11, 2015

Julian/He’s gonna take my files/Telling people jokes to shut them up/Resenting people that I love/Sleep in ’til two then doin’ shit/Just stay in bed and later lie ’bout it/Obsessing over greying hair/Knowing just what people wanna hear/Binging on unearned attention/I’ve said awful things, such awful things

from The Ideal Husband lyrics by Father John Misty

Last shake of Tillman’s completely inward skewerings of himself, cymbal and siren cacophony letting loose while every last bit of ‘awful’ the man could show is revealed, paired with a WikiLeaks neurosis of a metaphor in chase of forgiveness, redemption, it doesn’t matter. Up to love now.

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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