Album Name

Pure Comedy

Artist

Father John Misty

Genre

포크

Release Date

2017.04.07

Release Agency

워너뮤직

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 on the other end
Is kind enough to fill us in
And babies that's pretty
much how it's been ever since
Now the miracle of birth
leaves a few issues to address
Like say that half of us are
periodically iron deficient
So somebody's got to go
kill something while
I look after the kids
I'd do it myself but what
are you going to get
this thing its milk
He says as soon as he gets back
from the hunt we can switch
It's hard not to fall in love
with something so helpless
Ladies I hope we don't end up
regretting this
Comedy now that's what
I call pure comedy
Just waiting until the part
where they start to believe
They're at the center of everything
And some all powerful being
endowed this horror
show with meaning
Oh their religions are the best
They worship themselves yet
they're totally obsessed
With risen zombies
celestial virgins magic tricks
these unbelievable outfits
And they get terribly upset
When you question their sacred texts
Written by woman hating epileptics
Their languages just serve
to confuse them
Their confusion somehow
makes them more sure
They build fortunes poisoning
their offspring
And hand out prizes
when someone patents the cure
Where did they find these
goons they elected to rule them
What makes these clowns
they idolize so remarkable
These mammals are hell bent
on fashioning new gods
So they can go on being
godless animals

Oh comedy their illusions
they have no choice but to believe
Their horizons that just
forever recede
And how's this for irony
their idea of being free
is a prison of beliefs
That they never ever have to leave
Oh comedy oh it's like something
that a madman would conceive
The only thing that seems to make
them feel alive is the
struggle to survive
But the only thing that they request
is something to numb the pain with
Until there's nothing human left
Just random matter
suspended in the dark
I hate to say it
but each other's all we got