Any Day Now

He lived down the road from Mulberry Street With his wife and his 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 "Walk It Without Effort" came out Everybody we knew fell in love with him Jessica Thompson, Delta Spirit The sarcastic king of our little scene Well, how many times did we see In a half-empty Detroit bar? We figure 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 In London, he visited us in the green room 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've never heard it We went to Cottage Grove to record "Minimum Day" He looked 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, "Private! 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 Now get the Lonely Hearts album at San Pedro Swift and Moss would stay up all night painting And every morning he would sleep later and later 'Til we had to shake him awake He played piano on Miracle Mile and Tuxedos And 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 Nathaniel Rateliff and Lucius While Damien Jurado played the novelist And Jim Heidecker sang high-pitched 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 figure 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 Ooh Ooh