Fruit Bats
Fruit Bats is an American indie-rock band formed in 1997 in Chicago, Illinois. T… Read Full Bio ↴Fruit Bats is an American indie-rock band formed in 1997 in Chicago, Illinois. The group has had many personnel changes but revolves around songwriter Eric D. Johnson. Their albums include Echolocation (2001), Mouthfuls (2003), Spelled in Bones (2005), The Ruminant Band (2009), Tripper (2011), and Absolute Loser (2016). In 2009 Johnson also joined The Shins.

Originally part of short-lived Chicago group I Rowboat, Johnson and two of his fellow Rowboat members, guitarist Dan Strack and drummer Brian Belval, created Fruit Bats as a side-project. When I Rowboat split up, Fruit Bats became Johnson's main focus. Spurred on by Califone/Perishable Records honchos Tim Rutili and Ben Massarella, the group recorded their first album, Echolocation, released in 2001.

After tours with Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Modest Mouse and The Shins, Fruit Bats signed with Sub Pop in late summer 2002, recording their second album, 2003's Mouthfuls, which included new bandmate Gillian Lisee.

After relocating to Seattle, the group released their third album, Spelled in Bones, in 2005. Afterward, Eric D. Johnson played with The Shins and Vetiver. In 2008, the Fruit Bats began working together again, with revised membership of Johnson, Christopher Sherman, Ron Lewis, Graeme Gibson, and Sam Wagster. In 2009, they released The Ruminant Band and in 2011 came Tripper.

In November 2013, Eric D. Johnson announced he would be dissolving Fruit Bats. That month they played what was to be their farewell show at a sold out Aladdin Theatre in Portland, OR. The following year Johnson released an album under the name EDJ.

Reforming in 2015, Fruit Bats released their sixth official full-length LP, Absolute Loser, in 2016 via newly formed Los Angeles-based label Easy Sound.

Fruit Bats signed to North Carolina-based independent label Merge Records in 2018. Also in 2018, Johnson formed the folk group Bonny Light Horseman with Josh Kaufman and Anais Mitchell.

In 2019 Fruit Bats’ Merge debut "Gold Past Life" was released.

Fruit Bats’ 2020 album The Pet Parade was produced by Johnson's Bonny Light Horseman bandmate Josh Kaufman.

In 2021, Fruit Bats released a full-album cover of Smashing Pumpkins' 1993 record Siamese Dream.

The Fruit Bats’ double-disc, 20-year career retrospective "Sometimes A Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs" was released in 2022.
ALBUMS TRACK LIST SIMILAR ARTISTS
Genre not found
Artist not found
Album not found
Search results not found
Song not found

Fruit Bats Lyrics


01. Rainbow Sign Bring on the rain tell the Lord make it so,…
A Bit of Wind It takes a little shake up from the rift It takes…
A Dodo Egg Write your name on the shell of a dodo egg.…
A Lingering Love Good to hear you're feeling better But I still got ways Oh,…
Absolute Loser Your long distance van drive [?] Feeling absolute heartache …
Baby Bluebird Said you never felt lower Looking at her own shoulder Slow m…
Beautiful Morning Light Climb up with me to the monkey's nest And lay your…
Being On Our Own There's a man who lives on the sun who makes…
Birthday Drunk To be young and birthday drunk Soft drugs and a new…
Black Bells Stars are shining in the western sky like a million…
Blue Parachute If you was inanimate, you'd be a flute, Or an…
Born In The 70's Taking gulps, of big blue sea, of georgia peach and…
Buffalo & Deer [Chorus] Oh what a day for sunshine, oh what a day…


Canyon Girl A canyon girl 'neath imaginary skies is beckoning In a ficti…
Dolly Dolly, you better run - he ain't never gonna leave…
Don't You Know That Let's take it easy on ourselves Things aren't getting any si…
Dragon Ships Wish I was a man on a western land. I'd dig…
Every Day That We Wake Up It's A Beautiful Day Every day that we wake up it's a beautiful day…
Feather Bed Baby open wide you got the light in you Can't gimme…
Filthy Water Icebergs are scraping big holes across the bottoms Of luxu…
Flamingo The place where I was born is a vague memory Like…
Flamingos The plavce where I was born is a vague memory Like…
From A Soon to be Ghost Town It's hard to be the last one in a soon-to-be…
Glass in Your Feet Deaths head moth, and a honeybee, and the flightless birds…
Gold Past Life You know you're never gonna feel as right Than in your…
Good Will Come To You We are lonely ones, us travelers Some of our days are…
Heart Like an Orange In his cold little town there's no singing allowed No one…
Humbug Mountain Song The first time I realized I was living in this…
Hummer Faith lies in the ways of sin Chased the charmed But I…
It Must Be Easy It must be easy when they pay you to sing Even…
It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Everywhere you g…
Lazy Eye You are a diamond in the dirt And you're the centipede…
Legs of Bees Let your pollen lie on the legs of bees Through the…
Lives of Crime Oh, don't you grieve, don't cry, don't weep Your tears are…
Magic Hour I'll wait 'til I see a cloud shaped like the…
My Sweet Midwest My baby and I We live out West Where the air is…
My Unusual Friend Back when I was first on my own Before I had…
Need It Just a Little All the flowers in the meadows, and all the salt…
None of Us You oughta be careful When putting your heart out there Cuz …
Ocean Still waiting around for some mystical shift in the wind So…
Picture of a Bird Looking at a picture of a bird From a series of…
Primitive Man Oh, the time that you broke down and told me…
Rainbow Sign Bring on the rain tell the Lord make it so,…
Seaweed If I broke my jaw for you I'd find a bloody…
Shane You should call me up, Shane It seems like you got…
Shivering Fawn Rangy coyote run from a ghetto bird in the smog a…
Silent Life There's a light beyond the sticks and stones Past the piles…
Singing Joy To The World He got lonely every time the cantina lights came up…
Slipping Through the Sensors Slipping on through the sensors Tripping over rails and fenc…
So Long She couldn't dance but she wanted to She couldn't sing but…
Spelled in Bones Let the music wait You don't need it anymore There's nothing…
Strange Little Neck of the Woods Cheating at Marco Polo beneath the California smoke. There…
Tangie and Ray Tangie and Ray left Columbia, Maryland to go rolling with t…
Tegucigalpa I was born in Tegucigalpa the only day it ever…
The Banishment Song You're no longer welcome here You can't just have anything …
The Blessed Breeze Be the gumdrop deep in the rock Be the stoic bird Be…
The Bottom of It Ooo ooo oooh whoa oooo oooo Now that you've gotten to…
The Earthquake of '73 You hurt your foot roller-skating down by the bay You lost…
The Hobo Girl Throw your pelts into the lake You know you gotta burn…
The Little Acorn Saving all the waitresses 'cause they've all got longing in…
The Old Black Hole Down the old black hole, once for you, once for…
The Ruminant Band You'll always have smokes if you always give buckets of…
The Wind That Blew My Heart Away 'Cross the rows of palm trees blows The wind that blew…
Today Today is the greatest Day I′ve ever known Can't live for tom…
Tony the Tripper Tony the tripper and me and the dude who thought he…
Traveler's Song Out in the world, when your only friend is a…
TV Waves There is peace in the belly of the beast There is…
Two Babies in Michigan Though the air seems fine But somehow you can′t breathe Thou…
Union Blanket Weathered and worn All your sheep have been shorn Mistaken…
When U Love Somebody Baby, remember on the bus and my hand was on…
Wild Honey Pick your shadow up, slender on the vine Green wind will…
You Baby, remember on the bus and my hand was on…
You're Too Weird Somebody needs to tell me what I'm supposed to do They…


More Versions