Wings-Josh Ritter

[ti:Wings] [ar:Josh Ritter] [al:Hello Starling] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Wings - Josh Ritter [00:11.04]At night we crossed the border [00:12.86] [00:13.42]Following a Black robe [00:15.73]To the edge of the reservation [00:17.42]To Cataldo Mission [00:19.92]Where the saints and all the martyrs [00:22.51]Look down on dying converts [00:25.03]What makes the water holy she says is [00:27.90]That that it's the closest thing to rain [00:30.59] [00:39.53]I stole a mule from Anthony [00:41.34]I helped Anne up upon it [00:43.59]And we rode to Coeur d'Alene [00:45.66]Through Harrison and Wallace [00:48.40]They were blasting out the tunnels-making [00:51.15]Way for the light of learning [00:52.91]When Jesus comes a'calling she said [00:55.78]He's coming round the mountain on a train [00:58.67] [01:07.11]It's my home-last night [01:10.99]I dreamt that I grew wings [01:13.30]I found a place [01:18.05] [01:19.74]Where they could hear me when I sing [01:22.11] [01:26.49]We floated on to Hanford [01:27.86]On a lumber boat up river [01:30.11]Past the fisheries and the mill [01:32.24]Towns like a stretch of future graveyards [01:34.24]She was driven to distraction [01:36.69] [01:37.26]Said I wonder what will happen [01:39.31]When they find out they're mistaken [01:41.51]And the land is too changed to ever change [01:45.07] [01:53.50]We waded through the marketplace [01:55.63]Someone's ship had come in [01:57.76]There was silver [01:58.70]And begonias-dynamite and cattle [02:01.19]There were hearts as big as apples [02:04.70]And apples in the shape of Mary's heart [02:07.63]I said inside this gilded cage [02:09.98]A songbird always looks so plain [02:12.66] [02:15.91]It's my home-last night [02:24.60]I dreamt that I grew wings [02:26.51] [02:30.20]I found a place where [02:33.70]They could hear me when I sing [02:35.70] [02:58.88]And so they came with cameras [03:00.57]Breaking through the morning mist [03:02.82]Press and businessmen-tycoons [03:04.63]Episcopal philanthropists [03:07.32]Lost in their appraisal of the body of a woman [03:11.83]But all we saw were lowlands [03:13.76]Clouds clung to mountains without strings [03:17.45]And at last we saw [03:29.07] [03:37.64]Some people huddled up against [03:39.64]The rain that was descending [03:41.45]Like railroad spikes and hammers [03:43.45]They were headed for the border [03:45.48]Walking and then running [03:47.92]Then they were gone into the fog [03:50.30]But Anne said underneath [03:51.36]Their jackets she saw wings