Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto

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🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Phoebe Bridgers - "Kyoto" from the 2020 album Punisher on Dead Oceans.

Singer/songwriter Phoebe Bridgers has always brought a vulnerability and candidness to her lyrics, but especially on her highly-anticipated sophomore album Punisher, where she tackles themes of loneliness, disappointment, and feeling like an outsider. And on today's featured track, in particular, Bridgers works through her complicated feelings about her father.

Bridgers has written about her complicated feelings for her dad before, but on today's KEXP Song of the Day, she tackles it from a new perspective. “I feel so much fucking empathy and so much fucking anger toward him,” she told The New Yorker. She elaborated in an interview with NPR Music:

"This record, in a lot of ways, kind of feels like a graduation, but I feel like I'm trying to be self-aware about my resentments. I feel like I have strong opinions weakly held. So that's what 'Kyoto' is about. There's a lot of just straight up hatred and resentment on the first record — about all kinds of people — and then on this record I'm exploring just how quickly that all goes away with a little bit of examination."

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0:00.0	Day off in Kyoto,
0:07.0	in Kyoto, at the time, pulled around at the 7-11, the band took the speed train, went to the arkad.
0:17.0	I wanted to go, but I didn't.
0:20.0	You called me from a pay phone, they still got pay phones.
0:24.0	It cost a dollar a minute to tell me you're getting sober and you wrote me a letter
0:32.0	but I don't have to read it.
0:35.0	I want you to leave it.
0:40.0	You know you, if you don't need me to them.
0:44.0	Dream and through,
0:48.0	Toggy your skies.
0:50.0	I want the ocean.
0:57.0	And I changed my mind. Sun sets for a freak show on the weekend so I've been driving out to the suburbs
1:29.6	to park with the good world, instead of the chem trails.
1:34.0	This my little brother,
1:37.0	he said you called on his birthday
1:39.0	we're off by 10 days,
1:41.0	but you get a few points for trying.
1:44.0	Remember getting a truck fixed when you let us drive.
1:48.0	25 felt like flying.
2:00.0	Don't forgive you. The place,
1:58.0	and please don't want me to it. A wonder understood the skies.
2:09.0	I wanted to see the world to rise until it happened.
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