A surprisingly clean-cut Father John Misty performed a new song from his forthcoming album Pure Comedy on Saturday Night Live this week. Among other details from the dystopian future (or present) described in the song, “Total Entertainment Forever” features FJM frontman talking about a virtual reality relationship with a certain pop star. “Bedding Taylor Swift every night inside the Oculus Rift/After mister and the missus finish dinner and the dishes,” he sings. Misty also performed the his new album’s first single, “Pure Comedy.”Pure Comedy is out 4/7 on Sub Pop. Watch both performances and check out the full lyrics to “Total Entertainment Forever” below.
“Total Entertainment Forever”
Bedding Taylor Swift
Every night inside the Oculus Rift
After mister and the missus finish dinner and the dishes
And now the future’s definition is so much higher than it was last year
It’s like the images have all become real
And someone’s living my life for me out in the mirror
No, can you believe how far we’ve come
In the New Age?
Freedom to have what you want
In the New Age we’ll all be entertained
Rich or poor, the channels are all the same
You’re a star now, baby, so dry your tears
You’re just like them
Wake on up from the nightmare
Come on
Oh ho oh
Oh
Oh ho oh
No gods to rule us
No drugs to soothe us
No myths to prove stuff
No love to confuse us
Not bad for a race of demented monkeys
From a cave to a city to a permanent party
Come on
Oh ho oh
Oh
Oh ho oh
When the historians find us we’ll be in our homes
Plugged into our hubs
Skin and bones
A frozen smile on every face
As the stories replay
This must have been a wonderful place
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