"Any Day Now" lyrics
He lived down the road from Mulberry Street with his wife and three daughters
That's how I came to know him then
Swift and Eli singing in church, they would hang outside smoking a joint
Wearing sunglasses and a blazer on the hottest day in Hollywood
When "Walking Without Effort" came out, everybody we knew fell in love with him
Jessica Dobson, Delta Spirit
The sarcastic king of our little scene
Oh, how many times did we see 'em in a half empty Detroit bar?
We figured any day now, he'll be famous
The whole wide world will know his name
The songs that made us cry won't just be ours anymore
In London, he visited us in the greenroom at The Social
Told us he was in the studio with Mark Ronson and Ryan Adams
He said they wrote a song for him called "I Am Richard Swift"
I still don't know if it exists, or at least I never heard it
We went to cottage grove to record "Minimum Day"
Thumbed through his record collection, drank a lot of tequila
And he told us about the time in the pin drop quiet of a Fleet Foxes show
An old British guy shouted out, "Robyn! Michael Jackson's just died!"
And that still makes me smile
Any day now, he'll be famous
The whole wide world will know his name
And the songs that made us cry won't just be ours anymore
Making the the Lonelyhearts album in San Pedro, Swift and Maust would stay up all night painting
And every morning, he would sleep later and later till we had to shake him awake
He played piano on "Miracle Mile" and "Tuxedos"
When he sang background vocals, we were mesmerized
And of course, he did everything in one take
At the Hollywood Forever Cemetery show
I wept in the arms of strangers, Nathanael Rateliff and Lucius
While Damien Jurado played "The Novelist," and Tim Heidecker sang "Hot Piss"
And I didn't have to apologize
'Cause they all knew what we knew all along
That we were in love with his spirit
And there's so much we don't know about each other
And we probably never will, but we always have the music
And we figured any day now, he'll be famous
The whole wide world will know his name
And the songs that made us cry won't just be ours anymore
Any day now, he'll be famous
The whole wide world will know his name
And the songs that made us cry won't just be ours anymore
That's how I came to know him then
Swift and Eli singing in church, they would hang outside smoking a joint
Wearing sunglasses and a blazer on the hottest day in Hollywood
When "Walking Without Effort" came out, everybody we knew fell in love with him
Jessica Dobson, Delta Spirit
The sarcastic king of our little scene
Oh, how many times did we see 'em in a half empty Detroit bar?
We figured any day now, he'll be famous
The whole wide world will know his name
The songs that made us cry won't just be ours anymore
In London, he visited us in the greenroom at The Social
Told us he was in the studio with Mark Ronson and Ryan Adams
He said they wrote a song for him called "I Am Richard Swift"
I still don't know if it exists, or at least I never heard it
We went to cottage grove to record "Minimum Day"
Thumbed through his record collection, drank a lot of tequila
And he told us about the time in the pin drop quiet of a Fleet Foxes show
An old British guy shouted out, "Robyn! Michael Jackson's just died!"
And that still makes me smile
Any day now, he'll be famous
The whole wide world will know his name
And the songs that made us cry won't just be ours anymore
Making the the Lonelyhearts album in San Pedro, Swift and Maust would stay up all night painting
And every morning, he would sleep later and later till we had to shake him awake
He played piano on "Miracle Mile" and "Tuxedos"
When he sang background vocals, we were mesmerized
And of course, he did everything in one take
At the Hollywood Forever Cemetery show
I wept in the arms of strangers, Nathanael Rateliff and Lucius
While Damien Jurado played "The Novelist," and Tim Heidecker sang "Hot Piss"
And I didn't have to apologize
'Cause they all knew what we knew all along
That we were in love with his spirit
And there's so much we don't know about each other
And we probably never will, but we always have the music
And we figured any day now, he'll be famous
The whole wide world will know his name
And the songs that made us cry won't just be ours anymore
Any day now, he'll be famous
The whole wide world will know his name
And the songs that made us cry won't just be ours anymore
Writer(s): Nathan Willett
