Any Day Now Songtext
von Cold War Kids

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

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