Josh Ritter - New Lover lyrics

I can’t pretend that all is well
It’s like I’m haunted by a ghost
There are times I cannot speak your name
For the catching in my throat
There are things I will not sing
For the sting of sour notes

I feel like a miser, I feel low and mean
For accusing you of stealing what
I offered you for free
Still it beggars the belief sometimes
What thieves we lovers be

I don’t know who you’re with these days
Might be with someone new and if you are
I hope he treats you like a lover ought to do
But whatever makes you happy
It don’t really matter who
I got a new lover now, I
Hope you got a lover, too
Praise the water under bridges
He time they say will heal
Praise the fonder that still grows on
The absent heart in fields
Praise be to this pain these days
It’s all I seem to feel

Perhaps the fault was mine
Perhaps I just ignored
Who you were always gonna be instead
Of who I took you for
I’ve been treated worse, it’s true
Still I expected more

But, I will not chase your shadow as
You go from room to room
Dropping handkerchiefs and daggers
Smoking guns and other clues
For what someone did to someone and
Who did what with who
I've got a new lover now, I
Hope you got a lover, too

I got a new lover now
I know that she’s not mine
And I only want to hold her
I don’t need to read her mind
And she only looks like you when
She’s in a certain light

I got a new lover now
She knows just what I need
When I wake up in the night
She can read me back my dreams
And she loves them though she never needs
To tell me what they mean

I hope you got a lover now
Hope you’ve got somebody who
Can give you what you need like
I couldn’t seem to do
But, if you’re sad and you are
Lonesome and you got nobody true
I’d be lying if I said
That didn’t make me happy, too
I’d be lying if I said
That didn’t make me happy, too