Thin Blue Flame-Josh Ritter

[ti:Thin Blue Flame] [ar:Josh Ritter] [al:The Animal Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Thin Blue Flame - Josh Ritter [00:18.60]I became a thin blue flame [00:20.84]Polished on a mountain range [00:27.71]And over hills and fields I flew [00:35.82]Wrapped up in a royal blue [00:42.56]I flew over Royal City last night [00:46.61]A bullfighter on the horns of a new moon＇s light Caesar＇s ghost [00:50.17]I saw the war-time tides [00:52.93]The prince of Denmark＇s father still and quiet [00:56.55]And the whole world was looking to get drowned [00:58.55] [01:01.32]Trees were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds [01:04.13]I looked over curtains and it was then that I knew [01:08.50]Only a full house gonna make it through [01:12.43]I became a thin blue wire [01:17.74]That held the world above the fire [01:27.59]And so it was I saw behind [01:33.83]Heaven＇s just a thin blue line [01:40.32]If God＇s up there he＇s in a cold dark room [01:45.38]The heavenly host are just the cold dark moons [01:48.44]He bent down and made the world in seven days [01:50.81]And ever since he＇s been a＇walking away [01:55.05]Mixing with nitrogen in lonely holes [01:58.54]Where neither seraphim or raindrops go [01:59.79] [02:01.35]I see an old man wandering the halls alone [02:05.85]Only a full house gonna make a home [02:09.03]I became a thin blue stream [02:15.83]The smoke between asleep and dreams [02:23.57]And in that clear blue undertow [02:31.18]I saw Royal City far below [02:39.54]Borders soft with refugees [02:42.85]Streets a＇swimming with amputees [02:46.34]It＇s a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart [02:49.15]It＇s getting harder and harder to tell them apart [02:52.83]Days are nights and the nights are long [02:55.70]Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs [02:59.76]And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign [03:03.50]Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine [03:06.87]Now the wolves are howling at our door [03:10.06]Singing bout vengeance like it＇s the joy of the Lord [03:13.86]Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round [03:17.61] [03:20.59]If what＇s loosed on earth will be loosed up on high [03:24.52]It＇s a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die [03:27.76]Where even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance please [03:29.64] [03:30.98]The fat man is crying on his hands and his knees [03:35.41]Back in the peacetime he caught roses on the stage [03:38.90]Now he twists indecision takes bourbon for rage [03:42.33]Lead pellets peppering aluminum [03:45.27]Halcyon laudanum and Opium [03:49.01]Sings kiss thee hardy this poisoned cup [03:51.44] [03:53.83]His winding sheet is busy winding up [03:56.95]In darkness he looks for the light that has died [04:00.44]But you need faith for the same reasons that it＇s so hard to find [04:04.00]And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck [04:05.87] [04:07.30]And like good tragedy that＇s what we expect [04:12.10]At night I make plans for a city laid down [04:44.91]Like the hips of a girl on the spring covered ground [04:46.78] [04:49.37]Spirals and capitals like the twist of a script [04:52.92]Streets named for heroes that could almost exist [04:56.61]The fruit trees of Eden and the gardens that seem [04:59.35]To float like the smoke from a lithium dream [05:02.72]Cedar trees growing in the cool of the squares [05:06.34]The young women walking in the portals of prayer [05:09.59]And the future glass buildings and the past an address [05:13.08]And the weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless [05:16.57]And all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right [05:19.94]The suffering verbs put to sleep in the night [05:23.56]The future descending like a bright chandelier [05:27.37]And the world just beginning and the guests in good cheer [05:29.05] [05:30.67]In Royal City I fell into a trance [05:33.42]Oh it＇s hell to believe there ain＇t a hell of a chance [05:35.79] [05:37.67]I woke beneath a clear blue sky [06:27.44]The sun a shout the breeze a sigh [06:36.24]My old hometown and the streets I knew [06:42.91]Were wrapped up in a royal blue [06:50.90]I heard my friends laughing out across the fields [06:55.14]The girls in the gloaming and the birds on the wheel [06:57.89]The raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay [07:01.26]Cicadas electric in the heat of the day [07:04.50]A run of Three Sisters and the flush of the land [07:08.06]And the lake was a diamond in the valley＇s hand [07:11.74]The straight of the highway and the scattered out hearts [07:13.24] [07:15.21]They were coming together they pulling apart [07:16.58] [07:18.55]And angels everywhere were in my midst [07:21.99]In the ones that I loved in the ones that I kissed [07:25.79]I wondered what it was I＇d been looking for up above [07:28.60]Heaven is so big there ain＇t no need to look up [07:32.41]So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air [07:35.71]Only a full house gonna have a prayer