Screamland letra

The optimist
Swears hope dies last
And shoots the lamplight clean from the brakeman's hand
It's always the darkest right before the end
And you could say that no one here really believes
In the future, in perfection, that things aren't what they seem
Like a sucker with a scratcher, like a fuck-up with a dream
Stabbing at the ashtray like it might give up the truth
Like it might finally confess who else you're nearly faithful to

Stay young
Get numb
Keep dreaming
Screamland

Picked me up and drove by the light of the Moon
Four hours to the desert from the drawing room
This year's wine tasted suspicious but just enough like love
God must be with the outcasts 'cause when I call, you come
And at this late hour
Won't have to beg mercy for defeat
Just drop your hands the way love taught you
Ash white and voodoo
Deathless as a weed
Since I lied to keep you, I'm starting to feel
Like how long can you love someone for the weakness they conceal

Stay young
Get numb
Keep dreaming
Screamland

Love must find a way, love must find a way
After every desperate measure, just a miracle will take
Love must find a way, ah, love must find a way
After every desperate measure, just a miracle will take
Roll the stone away, I want to go
Where everyone is perfect beneath their robes
Honey, take me down to the water's edge
Mama said that we could get my hip brace wet
Maybe we are living in a state of grace returned
Maybe faith like this has at least one practitioner
Rings up to the knuckles, sutures in the bath
Here lie the born losers, God won't take them back

Stay young
Get numb
Keep dreaming, oh
Screamland, oh
Keep dreaming, oh

Screamland
Screamland
Screamland, oh
Screamland, oh
Screamland, oh

Father John Misty - Letras

• (Everything But) Her Love
• A Bigger Paper Bag
• Awful Things
• Baby Ride Easy
• Ballad of the Dying Man
• Being You
• Birdie
• Bored in the USA
• Buddy's Rendezvous
• Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)
• Chloë
• Date Night
• Disappointing Diamonds Are The Rarest Of Them All
• Every Man Needs a Companion
• Fun Times in Babylon
• Funny Girl
• God's Favorite Customer
• Goodbye Mr. Blue
• Hangout At The Gallows
• Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings
• Holy Shit
• I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All
• I Love You, Honeybear
• I Went To The Store One Day
• I'm Writing a Novel
• In Twenty Years or So
• Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose
• Just Dumb Enough To Try
• Kiss Me (I Loved You)
• Leaving LA
• Let The Light In (feat. Lana Del Rey)
• Mahashmashana
• Malaprops
• Mental Health
• Misty’s Nightmares 1 & 2
• Mr. Tillman
• Nancy From Now On
• Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Crow
• Now I’m Learning to Love the War
• O I Long To Feel Your Arms Around Me
• Olvidado (Otro Momento)
• Only a Fool
• Only Son Of The Ladies’ Man
• Please Don't Die
• Pure Comedy
• Q4
• Real Love Baby
• Screamland
• She Cleans Up
• Smoochie
• So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain
• Strange Encounter
• Summer’s Gone
• Tee Pees 1-12
• The Angry River
• The Ideal Husband
• The Memo
• The Next 20th Century
• The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment
• The Old Law
• The Palace
• The Payoff
• The Songwriter
• The Suburbs (Arcade Fire cover)
• Things It Would Be Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
• This Atom Bomb and Me
• This is Sally Hatchet
• To R.
• To S.
• Total Entertainment Forever
• True Affection
• Two Wildly Different Perspectives
• We Could Be Strangers
• We Met at the Store
• We're Only People (And There's Not Much Anyone Can Do About That)
• Well, You Can Do It Without Me
• When The God Of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay
• When You’re Smiling And Astride Me