Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto (Lyrics)

“Phoebe Bridgers has announced her sophomore solo album: Punisher is out June 19 via Dead Oceans. The follow-up to Stranger in the Alps includes “Garden Song,” as well as a new track called “Kyoto.” According to a press release, Bridgers had hoped to film her “Kyoto” video in Japan last month, but was forced to alter her plans due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, she made the visual with a green screen in Los Angeles.

“This song is about impostor syndrome. About being in Japan for the first time, somewhere I’ve always wanted to go, and playing my music to people who want to hear it, feeling like I’m living someone else’s life,” Bridgers said of “Kyoto” in statement. “I dissociate when bad things happen to me, but also when good things happen. It can feel like I’m performing what I think I’m supposed to be like. I wrote this one as a ballad first, but at that point I was so sick of recording slow songs, it turned into this.”

Phoebe Bridgers wrote and recorded Punisher between summer 2018 and autumn 2019. She worked on the new album with co-producers Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska. Her band on the record includes drummer Marshall Vore, guitarist Harrison Whitford, bassist Emily Restas, and pianist Nick White. In addition, Punisher has contributions from familiar faces like Conor Oberst, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Christian Lee Hutson, Nick Zinner, Blake Mills, and Bright Eyes’ Nathaniel Walcott, who plays horns on “Kyoto” and “I Know the End.”” — Pitchfork, Matthew Strauss, April, 10 2020

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♪ lyrics ♪
Day off in Kyoto
Got bored at the temple
Looked around at the 7-Eleven
The band took the speed train
Went to the arcade
I wanted to go, but I didn't
You called me from a payphone
They still got payphones
It costs a dollar a minute
To tell me you're getting sober
And you wrote me a letter
But I don't have to read it

I'm gonna kill you
If you don't beat me to it
Dreaming through Tokyo skies
I wanted to see the world
Then I flew over the ocean
And I changed my mind

Sunset's been a freak show
On a weekend, so
I've been driving out to the suburbs
To park at the Goodwill
And stare at the chem trails
With my little brother
He said you called on his birthday
You were off by like ten days
But you get a few points for tryin'
Remember getting the truck fixed
When you let us drive it
25 felt like flying

I don't forgive you
But please don't hold me to it
Born under Scorpio skies
I wanted to see the world
Through your eyes until it happened
Then I changed my mind

Guess I lied
I'm a liar
Who lies
'Cause I'm a liar
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[jalenjones]

When I first heard the lyrics referencing her father, I immediately understood and felt seen in a way I hadn't really before.

[deninetate]

When I first heard this song, I dismissed it as yet another break-up song where the woman can't walk away when she should. But it's not. I read that it's about her father. That adds a whole new layer to it. It's about how impossible it is to get away from an a$$ hole parent, especially if we have siblings who are still minors. She's giving voice to a pain many have to deal with. This is a great song!

[susanryan]

I heard this song on the radio for the first time and couldn't believe someone was actually singing not only about the loss of a father to alcoholism, but the loss of a world thru greedy corporate technocracy, which none of the comments so far as been acute enough to mention. She talks about watching the "chem trails" while wrestling with forgiving her father for the suffering he brought on her and her siblings. She wants the world but changed her mind because of all the sadness in it. Great song. Finally a brave woman who announces to the world that alcoholism is something you want to kill and chem trails are killing us all. And yet no one sees it. She is truly a modern warrior for our times and honest as hell. Yea!

[echopryme]

This is a song about how her father is a drunk and her trying to reconcile with him... its NOT some smiley shit. But THAT is what makes it great.

Phoebe Bridgers has what very few people have available in their musical arsenal, short of Paul Simon and Jackson Brown, in that she can make a song about loss, regret, fault, and the question of whether or not to forgive the past into a song that the world can listen to, on it's face, and smile and dance to.

I believe, and hope, that she is the future of music in 2020. Because what she is doing, is what we need to get us back to paying attention to our own faults.

[tomsinister]

i get some very calm vibes from this songs, it makes me feel like an anime kid flying in japan

[ruveydaranapoyraz]

Wow! I’m listening it since the moment i listened to it

[kamenokoura]

I love the song!
Btw a thumbnail picture is not Kyoto, it's Gifu:)

[stuartblittley]

life update: just sang this song 4 times in a row and i didn’t know my brother was in the kitchen and he heard the whole thing 😳

[tipsyarchaangel]

This song makes me think about the good times...thank you!




(Remember to wash your hands!)

[tabbyredd]

I heard the Copy Cat version of Kyoto first and they do NOT have the same vibes. Not one bit. I’m SHOOKITH

[samanthamurphy]

Phoebe what an amazing song! My twins and you both have a dad lost to you all at a tender age

[PANDA-rgbk]

The lyrics are kinda bad but it's a vibe