Father John Misty isn't racing toward the release of his sophomore album, Pure Comedy, on Friday -- he's taking a leisurely, present stroll. On Tuesday night, the former Fleet Foxes member took to The Late Show stage to perform a cut from the LP, "Ballad of the Dying Man."

After an introduction from Stephen Colbert, FJM aka Josh Tillman exercised his smooth, silky croon while strumming honestly to the satirical, down-tempo tune. "So says the dying man once I'm in the box / Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok / And all of the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked / The homophobes, hipsters, and 1 percent / The false feminists he'd managed to detect / Oh, who will critique them once he's left?"

The end of the song has FJM howling into the studio audience, with his band, some of whom had worked with the late Sharon Jones, calling out with tear-inducing cries. While the song chugs along, it all culminates at the end, which seemingly takes all emotion and flings it into a salad spinner for a chaotic whirl.