Father John Misty - So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain 

This song is so incredibly sad, beautiful, and just everything.

One of the best songs ever written, what a gift

You've been coming back to this album a lot lately.

I went to fjm's concert last night and this was his last song in the encore. It was too too beautiful, and after a couple of shitty months it made me feel like a person again. One of the best nights of my life.

Best song on the album.

To me, this song is about fleeting, momentary beauty. The transcendental feeling of living in the absolute moment of youth-filled debauchery. No one wants to grow old but who can stay on that mountain forever? And I love the mellow pace of the song. The slower, the better.

This is one of the songs that you just sit in a chair by a fire for 9 minutes and 28 seconds and just re evaluate your whole life.

The ending coda could go on for eternity.

I've first listen to this album sleeping on the grass of a park in Paris. It was in shuffle and I didn't know. Soon after it became an obsession, it was by far what I listened the most in 2017. And it was a beautiful, but really tough time to me. I was drinking a lot, full of money problems. Kinda bittersweet memories. Today I'm far away from Paris, after living there for 4 years. It's a friday night and I'm sober, reading Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. Had to come back 🥲

this one of my favorite songs to cry to

Thumbs up if you're watching this in 1286 B.C in Egypt under the rule of Ramses II

Leaving “Magic Mountain” symbolically represents a departure from youth and an acceptance of one’s own mortality. So, “Growing old on Magic Mountain,” metaphorically, is a refusal to move on with one’s life and grow as a person. FJM’s album is a commentary on the comedy of our existence, and this song is an observation of mankind’s Oedipal obsession with youth and our apprehension to let go of our silly, all-encompassing, ideologies. - genius

This may very well be the best song I've heard in the last 5 years.

As a senior in high school, i often listen to this song and think about how we're all growing up, and damn I'm gonna miss my childhood

"I'll hold their face so long inside my hands" In this album Tillman puts the "Father" of FTM on full display. Love it

Shredded. I heard this song for the first time last night live. Each word was crystal clear and his falsetto gave me chills. I had a knot in my throat and watery eyes the whole time, but can't hold back the tears so easily in private. So incredibly beautiful.

it feels like im saying goodbye to my kids on my death bed every time i listen to the outro of this song

What a ridiculously beautiful song. Blown AWAY.

That's so huge i could cry. The instrumental part should never end.Beautiful and touching

Man, 2016-first 2/3 of 2017 was such a good time in my life. I was just living, no obligations, going out in nature with my friends, listening to music, typical young person stuff, etc. etc. It’s hard to let it go, and I have the privilege of being able to ruminate on “the good times” during this pandemic, so the nostalgia is doubled down a bit. I feel like I sound like a melodramatic coming of age novel when I talk/type about this, but I really wish I could go back. I know that I shouldn’t live in the past, and the reason why “the good times™️“ were good in the first place is because I was just experiencing life as came at me, but man, I guess I’m just not liking what I’ve been experiencing these past few years. I guess I’m just doomed to be making similar comments for the next forty years like boomers do on classic rock songs nowadays.

This song has me SHOOK

I must have listened to this 20 times before I realized it was 10 minutes long. That's skill

I don't feel wild saying that this might be my favorite FJM of all time now. Really. I might dance to this at my wedding but if anyone heard the lyrics it would be such a downer. This is an incredible song.

This sounds like the lost second part of Fun Times in Babylon. Amazing song Farmer Jah Misery.

I cried a little when I first heard this song and it hit me in all of the reflective nostalgic memories of my youth and past. Missing family who have passed,friends, past relationships .

Lyrics That was the last New Year I'll ever see And I wanna stay on that magic mountain With lost souls and beautiful women I drank some of Farmer's potion And we were moving in slow motion The slower, the better The slower, the better 'Cause there's no one old on magic mountain There's no one old, old on magic mountain And that was the very last barn I'm burning So for now everyone is dancing As if it's any time but the present So for now every young thing in my path I'll hold their face so long inside my hands The longer, the better The longer, the better 'Cause there's no one old on magic mountain There's no one old, old on magic mountain The wine has all been emptied And smoke has cleared As people file back to the valley On the last night of life's party These days the years thin till I can't remember Just what it feels like to be young forever So the longer I stay here The longer there's no future So I'm growing old on magic mountain I'm growing old, old on magic mountain Written by Joshua Michael Tillman • Copyright ©

might be my favorite on the album. this song has sex appeal and forlorn love and misery and swag and smooth transitions and synths and suave lyrics and good intentions. all in all an all american victory for us in the ironic wake of such a sad yesterday, and a sadder tomorrow. thanks subpop thanks fjm for a fucking beautiful and sad and .... album. i love you all

FJM's music is such a different experience from anything else. You research what his songs are about, end up reading books that change your whole life, come back to the song that made you do that and then wonder if you were better off when you were ignorant to what you've learned. Then you keep doing it- moving on to the next song and going through all of that again. He could never release another album and I'd still be backed up on reading material that only made me more miserable and distanced from everyone I know. I feel like I live a more real existence because of FJM and resent how lonely it makes me feel at the same time. If nothing else, or at least above all else... it means that this shit is fucking powerful.

This is one of my favorite songs of the last 20 years.

Comin up on 30 and this is feelin relevant as fuck.

Absolutely beautiful song from an album that has taken me two months to truly appreciate...very definition of a grower.

Definitely one of Misty's best songs!

I dedicated this song to my fiance who passed away from cancer the day after his 27th birthday...he'll never be old as long as he's on magic mountain

This song cured my tinnitus.

I've been listening to this on repeat all day. Absolutely killin'😻

When that ad played during the outro... man, that shit made me sad.

Can someone hug me tightly while I cry

should be a billion views

Love this man's voice, lyrics and music. I'm a fan of Sigur Ros and The Verve. The ending of this song is reminiscent of a few of their tunes, especially Sigur Ros. Well done.

What I would give to hear this song for the first time again

This is wat 2020 feels like.

This song is epic af!! Listening on repeat!

I am almost certain the ending section of this track is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in 22 years on this earth. It stirs my heart in such an indescribable way.

Okay that five minute instrumental outerlude... I am dead.

Omg. Peaking during this song is beyond a beautiful experience. Transcendental floating. I wish the ending lasted 15 min!

This song was made for a closer.

All those annoying clueless people who say this album sucks/is overrated/is pretentious either haven’t heard this song or if they have, they are sad, heartless, emotional people.

I'm picking up a Carl Sagan-vibe. That outro just continues for light-years on a journey through the Cosmos. And for a moment, as it departs from Earth, it picks me up and I’m floating in space. It’s like experiencing an event horizon, time stops and the grandeur of the universe reveals itself, exposing our small, insignificant, brief existence. Nevertheless, what a thing to be a part of even for a short moment.

Ugh -Killing me. Tears. Stop writing such beautiful music. (I thought I got rid of the feels.)

"Genius" is too small a word.

Some people interpret this song as sad, but honestly it's probably the most happy song in FJM to me. It's about looking at the end of life knowing that you've lived a life where you've "grown old on magic mountain", or as I see it, living happy with no regrets into old age. The singer notes that there's no old people on magic mountain but he's simultaneously saying that he's growing old there and is gonna stay there. He's found a way to find a happiness that eludes most people as they get older, whether by pains of age or by living unwisely with retained regret towards others who passed on. To me it's about looking at The End as a place not just without pain, but as a place worth going to.

This hits different during a global pandemic watching your youth go to waste in lockdown

That was the last New Year I'll ever see And I wanna stay on that magic mountain With lost souls and beautiful women I drank some of Farmer's potion And we were moving in slow motion The slower, the better The slower, the better 'Cause there's no one old on magic mountain There's no one old, old on magic mountain And that was the very last barn I'm burning So for now everyone is dancing As if it's any time but the present So for now every young thing in my path I'll hold their face so long inside my hands The longer, the better The longer, the better 'Cause there's no one old on magic mountain There's no one old, old on magic mountain The wine has all been emptied And smoke has cleared As people file back to the valley On the last night of life's party These days the years thin till I can't remember Just what it feels like to be young forever So the longer I stay here The longer there's no future So I'm growing old on magic mountain I'm growing old, old on magic mountain

I dont know many songs where 10 mins fly like 3 mins. incredbile!

Start at 7:16. That what forgiveness sounds like. From here on…..you’ll know it when you hear it…

The outerlude makes me want to die with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes.

Masterpiece

Last 4 minutes are simply transcendental

What a lovely song

well I´ve just had a lil psychedelic trip, no drugs or alcohol involved

Damn. I was about to give up. This makes me feel warm.

The fact ads play through this song.

Gorgeous. Thanks

Oh my god this song is like soooo good and soooo sad I just like wanna sit here and totally just like, idk? cry , like wahhh wahhh wahhh booo hooo ... I’m like literally crying right now . Literally . Oh my god fjm like totally changed my life.. oh my god. Literally

this song is fucking incredible...

This album is one of a kind.

excellent

Why this isn't the National Anthem is beyond me.

rollin.. hardddd

Hans Castorp would've liked this song

This song reminds me of the last music festival I went to before the pandemic.

Seen him live eight times since 2007. Some of those were under the J Tillman name but Jesus he turned a song writing leaf when he switched the name. If youre a FJM fan and havent gone back to the older stuff, there's some gems in there. This album specifically is really incredible. This song, Things That Would... and Smoochie are my my top tracks but theres not a bad one on the whole album. Listening to my dad talk about Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road is exactly how I feel about this album. It captures the feeling of a time better than nearly any work I can name.

Why did you put ads in the middle of the song...

Just simply gorgeous.

I saw this rainow when i was a kid

GORGEOUS! THANK YOU FJM!

startin to get into this guy and cherishing it

it is the breath of the world at once

Second half of the song is better than the first. Could listen to that for days.

This is good

fuuuuuuuuu......ya. fr. fr. I pretty much do love every song he's sung..discovered him on the radio -fear fun album. Nancy from now on.. brilliant song. I don't want to love him. I was relieved when he f'ed up singing a cover of bird on a wire b/c it's not right if he gets to sing EVERY song perfectly. Saw him in concert.. eh.

such an underrated album

Ah man pulling in to work finishing this song up and slowing down in the parking lot so I can finish the song...

wowwwww

I dedicate this song to

Classic

Is this a reference to Neil young's sugar mountain?

All yesterday’s parties

This is just one of those songs that hits so hard... so poignant.

This song... and Reiki hands holding loved ones innocently... I get you Fleet Foxes drummer.

I'm getting a WEEEIRD old school J. Tillman vibe from this

The Lies In her eyes Hypnotize

i will never tire of this song. it's ridiculously ethereal and a great solace (yet at the same time it hurts like a motherfucker). the instrumental ending is what i imagine being a non-bodied human in a universal void feels like. it's very comforting

you can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain

This shit slap

I hate there’s an add in the middle of this just because it’s 10 mins, it disturbs my zen

FIP Radio brought me here.

my favorite genre: good songs by artists i hate

What kind of monster puts ad breaks in the *middle* of a song?

Sugar Mountain Neil Young