Josh Ritter - The Remnant lyrics

I know who you are, old man, keep running
I caught your trail as you left the pines
Out into the fields where
You couldn’t hide nowhere
Just a thin stitch up against the rising line
And up through the blue
I knew the stars were tumbling
Up through the blue
I knew the stars were tumbling

I know who you are, old man, keep running
I tracked you down by the look in the eyes
A thousand gone faces pressed
Against their windows
Horses hiding in the willows 'til
The storm passed by
And a fine gray dust seemed
To settle on the future
A fine gray dust seemed to settle in between
Your hat and the dapple of my appaloosa
The only living things that I could see
Up through the blue
I knew the stars were tumbling
Up through the blue
I knew the stars were tumbling
I know who you are, old man, keep running
I walked across the bottom of the lake below
Your boat and did you know that
When you landed I was watching?
As the sky turned dark as the eyes of a foal
I’ll know you by the shift of
The wind in the cobwebs
The sawdust swirls in the
Fins of the bullheads
Craters that you made when
You lay down dreamin'
Strange constellations that you
Gave new meanin'
By the teeth marks you made on
Bones of the ice age
The smell of the cinder burning
Slow in your ribcage listen in the distance
And you'll hear my shadow
Footsteps soft as the tread of an echo
Up through the blue
I knew the stars were tumbling
Up through the blue
I knew the stars were tumbling
(Stars were tumbling)

And the ground will open out
Into a mouth below us
And the mouth will open out
Into the empty sky
And the whistle as we hurtle
Through the halls of onyx
The only sound around us as we go by
And I’ll follow you out through
The wells of charcoal
Moonlit stones around the cones
Of a black hole
Through the fields where grow
The Ever and Forever
The tessellated blooms with the
Voids at their centers
A million rooms in a bead of luminescence
The filaments on the looms of dimension
The pillars of creation where
They made the planets
The billion tiny teeth that tear
The charge from your atoms
In a trillion tiny bites
They’ll eat the meat from the pearl
Throw your soul away a cold grey little world
And nothing that is hidden will be revealed
Nothing that is hidden will be revealed
Nothing that is hidden will be revealed
Nothing that is hidden will be revealed