Father John Misty - So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain Lyrics

I found this song from a suicide website

This is one of the songs that you just sit in a chair by a fire for 9 minutes and 28 seconds and just re evaluate your whole life.

I am almost certain the ending section of this track is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in 22 years on this earth. It stirs my heart in such an indescribable way.

Definitely one of Misty's best songs!

Oh my god this song is like soooo good and soooo sad I just like wanna sit here and totally just like, idk? cry , like wahhh wahhh wahhh booo hooo ... I’m like literally crying right now . Literally . Oh my god fjm like totally changed my life.. oh my god. Literally

Just simply gorgeous.

Gorgeous.
Thanks

This album is one of a kind.

Still not convinced this song isn't about a guy who still lives in his hometown with his parents at 29 years old.

This song... and Reiki hands holding loved ones innocently... I get you Fleet Foxes drummer.

Is this about still living with your parents at 29 years old?

This......

It amazes me how many people don't see the extreme left-right.

Comin up on 30 and this is feelin relevant as fuck.

We we're moving in slow motion the slower the better

All those annoying clueless people who say this album sucks/is overrated/is pretentious either haven’t heard this song or if they have, they are sad, heartless, emotional people.

Erik Frost Those people are "godless animals" and I just can't.

I dedicate this song to

This is just one of those songs that hits so hard... so poignant.

GORGEOUS! THANK YOU FJM!

startin to get into this guy and cherishing it

Love this man's voice, lyrics and music. I'm a fan of Sigur Ros and The Verve. The ending of this song is reminiscent of a few of their tunes, especially Sigur Ros. Well done.

I must have listened to this 20 times before I realized it was 10 minutes long. That's skill

As a senior in high school, i often listen to this song and think about how we're all growing up, and damn I'm gonna miss my childhood

fuck man. i just went to college orientation this past weekend, and the first day i have Mr Tillman stuck in my head, but on the morning of the second day i couldn't stop thinking about magic mountain. it hurts.

rollin.. hardddd

This may very well be the best song I've heard in the last 5 years.

This is good

What I would give to hear this song for the first time again

This song was made for a closer.

I SAW HIM PERFORM THIS LIVE AND WOW IT. WAS. FANTASTIC.

Can someone hug me tightly while I cry

To me, this song is about fleeting, momentary beauty. The transcendental feeling of living in the absolute moment of youth-filled debauchery. No one wants to grow old but who can stay on that mountain forever? And I love the mellow pace of the song. The slower, the better.

Shredded. I heard this song for the first time last night live. Each word was crystal clear and his falsetto gave me chills. I had a knot in my throat and watery eyes the whole time, but can't hold back the tears so easily in private. So incredibly beautiful.

"Genius" is too small a word.

Dan B eh? As in Dan Bailey the drummer for FJM? 😎

@Zach Smith Hi Zach, no- I wish I WAS the drummer. I am just a 65 year old white guy who is stunned by the talent and beautiful songs of FJM...much as I was stunned over 40 years ago by the talent and beautiful songs of Tom Waits. Going to see FJM and Jason Isbell (another GENIUS!) in San Diego 6/8/19.

I saw this rainow when i was a kid

This shit slap

I dont know many songs where 10 mins fly like 3 mins. incredbile!

This is one of my favorite songs of the last 20 years.

it feels like im saying goodbye to my kids on my death bed every time i listen to the outro of this song

Parker Kelley beautiful! I feel something like that too.

Lyrics

That was the last New Year I'll ever see
And I wanna stay on that magic mountain
With lost souls and beautiful women
I drank some of Farmer's potion
And we were moving in slow motion

The slower, the better
The slower, the better
'Cause there's no one old on magic mountain
There's no one old, old on magic mountain

And that was the very last barn I'm burning
So for now everyone is dancing
As if it's any time but the present
So for now every young thing in my path
I'll hold their face so long inside my hands

The longer, the better
The longer, the better
'Cause there's no one old on magic mountain
There's no one old, old on magic mountain

The wine has all been emptied
And smoke has cleared
As people file back to the valley
On the last night of life's party
These days the years thin till I can't remember
Just what it feels like to be young forever

So the longer I stay here
The longer there's no future
So I'm growing old on magic mountain
I'm growing old, old on magic mountain

Written by Joshua Michael Tillman • Copyright ©

mark lamunyon thank you

When you see Tillman's lyrics printed out - you just know...Singer-Sonwriters like this come once in a Blue Moon! - Dylan, Joni Mitchell, , Nillson, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young - I think FJM is almost...Canadian!

Thank very much!

I thought it was "bong" im burning...lol

this song is fucking incredible...

Absolutely beautiful song from an album that has taken me two months to truly appreciate...very definition of a grower.

This song is epic af!! Listening on repeat!

Thumbs up if you're watching this in 1286 B.C in Egypt under the rule of Ramses II

Arpine Ginosyan hahahahaha sooo goood

Atenhotep was the last real king of the khem

@Mather Cotter Praise the highest race and kingdom.

I'm getting a WEEEIRD old school J. Tillman vibe from this

Ugh -Killing me. Tears.
Stop writing such beautiful music.
(I thought I got rid of the feels.)

I went to fjm's concert last night and this was his last song in the encore. It was too too beautiful, and after a couple of shitty months it made me feel like a person again. One of the best nights of my life.

Healing music ❤

This sounds like the lost second part of Fun Times in Babylon. Amazing song Farmer Jah Misery.

Christi Stones It definitely does, wow

should be a billion views

This song cured my tinnitus.

The ending coda could go on for eternity.

Legend says it actually does.

This song has me SHOOK

The outerlude makes me want to die with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes.

I don't feel wild saying that this might be my favorite FJM of all time now. Really. I might dance to this at my wedding but if anyone heard the lyrics it would be such a downer. This is an incredible song.

Wow. What a WILD perspective. Not sure I can go on living or using the internet anymore.

"I'll hold their face so long inside my hands"
In this album Tillman puts the "Father" of FTM on full display. Love it

My favorite song that touched me and my friends he played in Austin at the bass center . Best song ever

I've been listening to this on repeat all day. Absolutely killin'😻

I'm picking up a Carl Sagan-vibe. That outro just continues for light-years on a journey through the Cosmos. And for a moment, as it departs from Earth, it picks me up and I’m floating in space. It’s like experiencing an event horizon, time stops and the grandeur of the universe reveals itself, exposing our small, insignificant, brief existence. Nevertheless, what a thing to be a part of even for a short moment.

Jele Apa Fuck yeah

well put !

Thanks for this comment. Carl is the reason I'm a biologist (sooner astrobiologist). Have a lot of tattoos of related to him and astronomy.

wowwwww

this one of my favorite songs to cry to

Your tears are are this songs favorites to play to.

I love it when u cry.

Best song on the album.

no doubt... paper bag & perspectives also have that gloomy killer touch... that heavy sounded piano throughout the album... man

I was going to put the same comment

Okay that five minute instrumental outerlude... I am dead.

Your stache... I am dead.

Bionic 56 lmao

Your death I'm dead

It’s a coda

might be my favorite on the album. this song has sex appeal and forlorn love and misery and swag and smooth transitions and synths and suave lyrics and good intentions. all in all an all american victory for us in the ironic wake of such a sad yesterday, and a sadder tomorrow. thanks subpop thanks fjm for a fucking beautiful and sad and .... album. i love you all

That's so huge i could cry. The instrumental part should never end.Beautiful and touching

FIRST. FJM is the best!