[Josh Ritter plays]
Josh Ritter: This song is called “Change of Time,” and it’s from “So Runs the World Away.”
I had a dream last night; I dreamt that I was swimming
And the stars up above, directionless and drifting
And somewhere in the dark were the sirens and the thunder
And around me as I swam, the drifters who’d gone under
Time love, time love, time love.
Time love, time love, time love, it’s only a change of time.
I had a dream last night, and rusting far below me
Battered hulls and broken hardships
Leviathan and lonely
I was thirsty so I drank, and though it was salt water
There’s something about the way it tasted so familiar
Time love, time love, time love
Time love, time love, time love, it’s only a change of time.
The black clouds I’m hanging, this anchor I’m dragging
The sails of memory rip open in silence
We cut through the lowlands, all hands through the saltlands
The white caps of memory, confusing and violent.
I had a dream last night, when I opened my eyes
Your shoulder blade your spine were shorelines in the moonlight
New worlds for the weak, new lands for the living
I could make it if I tried; I closed my eyes, I kept on swimming
Time love, time love, time love, it’s only a change of time love
Time love, time love, it’s only a change of time love,
Time, time love it’s only a change of time love, time love,
It’s only a change of love—seas that carry me wherever I go
Rough seas, they carry me wherever I go,
Rough seas they carry me wherever I go,
Rough seas, they carry me wherever I go.
Recorded April 5, 2010
Interviewed by Austin rnAllen