Discover the story of the song > Nancy From Now On – Father John Misty

The protagonist asks for another drink and wants to be hit, even saying to call him Nancy. He talks about how every man has a symbol, and his is his stamp from a concentration camp where his organs are in pain. He then says to hook him up to a tank and take him wherever his body leads, as he plans to break things like Howard Hughes. The chorus talks about not knowing that there was so much good nearby, but he's still searching for it. In the end, the protagonist wants to go back to when things were good before he had to run away.