Josh Ritter - Where The Night Goes Lyrics

What an incredible artist this man is.

Much better song writer than Mr Bland Sheeran

Nice! Heard this on MVY Martha’s Vineyard 😄

Me too mossy. They play good shit.

I went to his concert in virgina

Wow, all that packed into 3 minutes and 49 seconds!! Beautiful

It is an intentional paradox, because it is wendigo chilling song in a bright package.

It's a good feeling a bad one, pulling. The real temptation of knowing, but can you ever know if you don't keep on trying to prove yourself right or wrong, indifferently in limitless space of nothingness where anything can be.

You can't see where the night goes, it's dark and if you follow it's only more dark and it goes somewhere you'll never see, so let's see infinity.

I once had a part-time job soliciting door-to-door for a lawncare company. Our driver would drive us around to different neighborhoods in an old van, he'd always have the radio playing. I heard Josh Ritter once in that van, now he's one of my favourite artists! Every time I hear him now I think of my old job & I realize that it wasn't that bad.

Just wanted to update this thread. This song still rocks!!

This song (tempo, melody etc) reminds me of another old song by Eric Clapton (I think). Something about the piano. Not a ripoff or sampling but musically close.

Josh!! This is the song! Thank you for your amazing music! I'm trying to follow in your steps. Support independent music! This is my Kickstarter for my debut album! Could use the support.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/228549494/garrett-randolph-starting-fires-in-the-dark?ref=profile_backed

This guy is constantly amazing, he's a little famous, he's bound to be more so.

Obsessed.

I can hear some echoes of old Steve Forbert in this. Really enjoyable!

Yeah, a bit of "Romeo's Tune" in the piano arrangement for sure.

Everything about it sounds like Romeo's Tune... The beat, piano licks, vocal melody... All strikingly similar... But... That's not a bad thing 😎

What can I say? I just love him!

<3 WFUV

Love this!

A variation on Bye Bye American Pie- very well done ,very nice-but it's essentially Bohemian Bubble Gum -Paul Simon sings Jack Kerouac-great sincerity, & he's clearly a warm,beautiful soul-but this is not powerful,or original- so it's not really first rate stuff like Dylan,Waits,Cohen,Springsteen, or Simon

Pretty much every chord combination has been done (outside of experimental jazz and pretentious "what is art?" type music). Plus he was born like 30yrs after any of those guys. We get it - there's no good music after 1986, he's not original or great, blah blah blah Get over it man, Josh Ritter is one of the best songwriters of the past 10-15yrs.

@Jake Chandler Amen!

This is a great song. I had to laugh a little at the opening line, because a girl named Brenda Lee got me into Josh Ritter back in college. This song made me smile :)

This song was born to last.

Un artiste de grand talent, à quand une tournée en France? Pour patienter, j'ai commandé l'album.
Les autres albums étaient très bon et celui-ci semble encore mieux. Josh est un peu comme le vin, il ne demande qu'a vieillir.
A déguster comme un grand cru du Bordelais ou d'ailleurs.

+Pascal Duval Un fan français de Josh Ritter, ça alors ! Je suis fou de ce mec moi. Je l'ai découvert dans "Dr. House" (comme pas mal de gens) où sa chanson "Good Man" passait à la fin de l'épisode final de la saison 3 et j'ai découvert son "The Animal Years" que j'ai écouté en boucle jusqu'à l'aimer persuadé qu'il as du potentiel et je suis devenu accro à sa musique. Je le suis tout le temps depuis deux ou trois ans maintenant. Je l'adore, j'adore la plupart de ses chansons que j'ai écouté et notamment ses nouvelles perles. Je crains que l'ami Ritter ne passe pas dans nos contrées (il est vraiment tellement peu connu ici... ce qui est désespérant vu ce qui passe sur nos ondes...). Il est en tournée à travers les Etats-Unis en ce moment et il va passer en Grande-Bretagne, je crois. Merci Pascal de savoir apprécier la bonne (c'est un euphémisme) musique du très sympa John Ritter.

It's final.
This guy can't write a bad song. He's incapable. He's too damn good for it.

I saw his name on your shirt in your mushroom video. Being a curious kind of guy I had to check him out. I like what I hear. Good music like this is hard to find. Thanks for wearing the shirt.

That's awesome man. Check out the song Thin Blue Flame to really get an idea of his songwriting capabilities.

I listened. WOW! That's powerful. I love it because while some of it is so clear you can interpret the rest of it for yourself. Thanks again.

No problem man. Glad you enjoyed it.

I'm a little new to the party but I came here for the same reason, not a bad song. It's ridiculous, the guy is amazing.

It's great to hear him with an electric sound again! Such a great vibe!

This is just fantastic. Haven't been so excited for a Josh Ritter album since Historical Conquests.

Damn, Josh just gets better and better. I haven't been a long, only about ten years or so. His music just lifts me up, and also he makes you listen and think about his lyrics. He also really cares about his fans and it shows when you see him performing, A true treasure to music is Josh.

Josh Ritter is one of those rare artists whose sounds, both large and small, remind us that this universe can be an exhilarating, confusing and beautiful place - where symmetries and parallels are as surprising as they are poetic. This Irishman, who grew up in Idaho (and now lives near LA) feels that another one of Ritter's songs has hit the mark!

Are you saying that you are an Irishman ? ...because Josh is not Irish. He has a huge fan base here and spent some time in Ireland.

+Mrplumpynutt Indeed I am Irish

+MichaelSaurus Rex
maith an fear.

A roaring fire of a song. On a yet uncharted sea, on a holy boat, Jack and Jill throw pales of blessed water over board as they sing along, sinking, to future Josh Ritter songs.

Another great song...can't wait for this album and tour!