Any Day Now

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