#josh ritter

[imogen-fae]

Josh Ritter - The Curse

Trigger warning this music video will wreck you. Please sit down & grab a box of kleenex. You may need a glass of wine too. It's heartbreakingly beautiful.

Thank you @withnailrules for this treasure.

[inkylizard]

[callmearcturus]

My mother was in the car with me while I had on Josh Ritter and she said, "Who IS this," and I said, "Josh Ritter. He sings in a way that reminds me of home," and she asked for a few of his songs.

So here's a primer on Josh Ritter.

The song that caught madre's attention and is a jam: "Getting Ready to Get Down" First Ritter song I ever heard: "The Temptation of Adam" (BRILLIANT ballad, not about what you think) Favorite songs: "The Remnant" and "Harrisburg"*

(*actually my favorite cut of Harrisburg is 8:42 live version from Live at the Iveagh Gardens but I have never met anyone who felt the Emotions I did at hearing it, so I put on the other still-good live version instead)

[cleoselene]

I saw the children in the holding pens I saw the families ripped apart And though I try I cannot begin To know what it did inside their hearts There was a time when we held them close And weren't so cruel, low, and mean And we did good unto the least of those Or was it all some kind of dream?

[enigma-the-mysterious]

If there’s a Book of Jubilations

We’ll have to write it for ourselves

So come and lie beside me darling

And let’s write it while we still got time

Lantern, Josh Ritter

[Part 1] [Part 2]

[setmeatopthepyre]

After that it got colder

And the world got quiet, it was never quite day or quite night

And the sea turned the color of sky, turned the color of sea

Turned the color of ice

'Til at last all around us was vastness, one vast, glassy desert of arsenic white

And the waves that once lifted us sifted instead into drifts against Annabelle's sides

And the crew gathered closer at first for the comfort

But each morning would bring a new set of tracks in the snow

Leading over the edge of the world 'til I was the only one left

We talked of the other new worlds we'd discover as she gave up her body to me

And as I chopped up her mainsail for timber I told her of all that we still had to see

And as the frost turned her moorings to ninetail

And the wind lashed her sides in the cold

I burned her to keep me alive every night in the loving embrace of her hold

And I won't call it rescue

That brought me back here to the old world to drink and decline

And pretend that the search for another new world was well worth the burning of mine

[chavisory]

You see all of these empties that I'm holding. They're too much for a man. Empty arms, empty hands. And she'll know me By the sound of my hoping.

[air-exec]

This song is making me feel deeply sad curtbucky feelings

[dwellordream]

And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new

And I'd watch you with my thumb above the button

Then one night you found me in my army issue cot

And you told me of your flash of inspiration

You said fusion was the broken heart that's lonely's only thought

And all night long you drove me wild with your equations

[deermouth]

And the angel smiled to himself again.

He said, "I can't believe I'm asking

But, Sir Galahad, please tell me,

What is that makes you want to go to Heaven?

In Heaven there's no lamb chops,

Queen Guineveres for handjobs,

Marijuana, Kenny Rogers, or ecstasy.

No pillaging, no rape—

Perhaps you've come by some mistake to me—

This seems more error than knight errantry."

[hope-to-hell]

“Then one morning near Arkana I chanced to watch some violets rise

Their lunar blues undoing down the fastening stays of night and I

Thought how sweet to sleep beneath flowers such as those”

I only wish I could write something this lyrical.

[extollingtheeveryday]

Hello blackbird, hello starling

Winter's over, be my darling

Long time coming but now the snow is gone

[phthalology]

the title song from the EP is finally free online somewhere and it rules. totally worth the $8 but at least I can show it to you all now

[deancaswlw]

its always been in my nature to be the beast! blame the maker, but stay with me!!