Anybody like Josh Ritter? Anybody heard of him?

[Kire]

'Golden Age of Radio' has to be one of the best albums ever. I can listen to it forever, without getting tired of it. I have been known to have it on repeat for over 24 hours. It is so relaxing and beautiful.

I'd call it alt-country, but I'm not sure. I first heard "Come and Find Me" on an episode of Six Feet Under, right after Nate ravished Lisa on a rock in the woods and everything was going to be all right between them. They were finally going to be a real married couple. Too bad she died later that season.

"Leaving"

Making my own city lights
Out of bourbon and the stars of a bar room fight
Face forward in the wind
If you don't know where it is but you know where it's been

Then it's leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where
Leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

I tried to keep myself in line
I been bad but I seem to get back I every time
Now I come back and the place is all locked
Between the door knob and the doorbell, somebody talked

Now it's leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where
Leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

Every time I turn around
Something else just floated away
There ain't a single thing that I've found
With wings that decided to stay

Maybe it's the place on the wall
Or maybe it's the space where the phone didn't call
Or maybe it's this thing in my chest
We'll know what it was by the hole that it left

Now it's leaving, leaving but I don't know where
Leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

[Kire]

1. Anne

Anne walks alone
Past the Domino sugar factory
She's as easy to know
As a broken mystery

Conversations are slow
With herself in dead parking lots
Hands not being held
End up tying everything in knots

And she's lonely

You don't deserve what you've got
Holy Father of the day-to-day
If you keep such careful watch
Tell me why is she just wasting away

Being lonely
Oh so lonely?

Water under the bridge is never coming back

[Kire]

2. Other Side

Say the west is a story we made up to erase
Conestoga wagons left tracks you can see from space
From the Northwest passage to the Great Divide
Everybody's looking for the other side

I'm still waiting for the whiskey to whisk me away
And I'm still waiting for the ashtray to lead me astray
I twist the culdesacs into one way signs
I ain't going round in circles on the other side

So at night I sit and watch for stars to stay
They wink and then they're gone down the Milky Way
But when you're left in the middle of the Midwest sky
Everywhere you look is the other side

[Kire]

3. West of her there's a place I know

West of her there's a place know
Never have been but I'd like to go
Somewhere out there I believe in me
And West of her is where I'd like to see

West of her there's another place
Sun shines soft on another face
And the river falls on another sea
And West of her is where I'd like to be

Roll on

I tried out-running you it didn't last
Everything that catches up must come to pass
And your voice is the one inside my head
I ended up out-running myself instead

Roll on

You'll probably end up thinking that I don't care
When you get a letter from a new somewhere
But i know you've got what you need to be
Happy someplace East of me

Roll on