The Remnant-Josh Ritter

[ti:The Remnant] [ar:Josh Ritter] [al:So Runs The World Away] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Remnant - Josh Ritter [00:10.29]I know who you are old man keep running [00:14.65] [00:17.39]I caught your trail as you left the pines [00:20.48] [00:22.71]Out into the fields where you couldn't hide nowhere [00:25.66] [00:27.54]Just a thin stitch up against the rising line [00:31.05] [00:33.85]And up through the blue I knew the stars were tumbling [00:36.64]Up through the blue I knew the star were tumbling [00:39.81] [00:45.13]I know who you are old man keep running [00:47.53] [00:50.27]I tracked you down by the look in the eyes [00:53.40] [00:55.46]Of a thousand gone faces pressed against their windows [00:58.16] [01:00.68]Horses hiding in the willows 'til the storm passed by [01:04.07] [01:06.22]And a fine gray dust seemed to settle on the future [01:09.23]A fine gray dust seemed to settle in between [01:11.71]Your hat and the dapple of my appaloosa [01:14.37]The only living things that I could see [01:17.38]And up through the blue I knew that stars were tumbling [01:20.02]Up through the blue I knew the stars were tumbling [01:22.59] [01:28.37]I know who you are old man keep running [01:30.71] [01:33.55]I walked across the bottom of the lake below [01:36.21] [01:38.66]Your boat and did you know that when you landed I was watching [01:41.78] [01:43.89]As the sky turned dark as the eyes of a foal [01:46.55] [01:49.32]And I'll know you by the shift of the wind in the cobwebs [01:52.11]The sawdust swirls in the fins of the bullheads [01:54.72]The craters that you made when you lay down dreaming [01:57.63]Strange constellations that you gave new meaning [02:00.07]By the teeth marks you made on bones from the ice age [02:03.25]Then smell of the cinder burning slow in your rib cage [02:05.87]Listen in the distance and you'll hear my shadow [02:08.45]Footsteps soft as the tread of an echo [02:11.05]And up through the blue I knew the stars were tumbling [02:14.09]Up through the blue I knew the stars were tumbling [02:17.22] [02:44.20]And the ground will open out into a mouth below us [02:46.92]And the mouth will open out into the empty sky [02:49.62]And the whistle as we hurtle through the halls of onyx [02:52.21]The only sound around us as we go by [02:55.02]And I'll follow you out through the wells of charcoal [02:57.51]Moonlit stones around the cones of a black hole [03:00.34]Through the fields where grow the ever and forever [03:03.04]The tessellated blooms with the voids at their centers [03:05.65]Through the million rooms in a bead of luminescence [03:07.84] [03:08.37]The filaments on the looms of dimension [03:11.08]The pillars of creation where they make the planets [03:13.56]The billion tiny teeth that tear the charge from your atoms [03:16.25]In a trillion tiny bites they'll eat the meat from the pearl [03:19.02]And throw your soul away a cold grey little world [03:21.75]And nothing that is hidden will be revealed [03:24.42]And nothing that is hidden will be revealed [03:27.12]And nothing that is hidden will be revealed [03:29.20] [03:29.88]And nothing that is hidden will be revealed