Josh Ritter - Truth Is a Dimension (Both Invisible and Blinding) lyrics
[Josh Ritter - Truth Is a Dimension Both Invisible and Blinding lyrics]
I got off the highway north
Of Desert Canyon Station
I was driving with my headlights off
Just stars for navigation my telescope
My notes and my ham sandwiches and coffee
Sometimes you must be all alone and there
Ain't no way to not be
I was thinking about Tonya
How things had rearranged
And everything can come full circle
We were back to being strangers
She was with a man named Neil now
That's all I knew about him
But, I was happy she was happy
Real happy that she'd found him
It was just after 11 when I
Pulled off at the lookout
The parking lot was empty though the
Air still smelled like cookouts
And yes I admit I toked one
That doesn't change what happened
Anyway you're not my parents
And it really helps my mapping
Of the System 611, a Magellanic cluster
I'd been watching for a while
I got my telescope adjusted
And I turned it toward an
Unassuming patch of dusty sky
That was really fifty million stars
A billion lightyears wide
And then all at once it felt
As if time had been suspended
And a vision poured into me
Like a bottle'd been upended
I was filled with revelation
Both infinite and finite
That filtered down my telescope
Encoded in the starlight
It said, "Truth is not immutable
It'self is a dimension
Truth can be both weighted down
And warped in strange directions
Truth has a shape that alters
Each according to observer
Sometimes you must be close to it
Sometimes you must be further
Truth can bend and truth can break
Depends on how you ask it
It frays or it may blaze out
At some pall bound for Damascus
And it sometimes gets mistook for God
Sometimes for his servant
It both exists and doesn't
Like a star that's not observed yet
Which all at once returned my
Thoughts to System 611
Still twinkling down the telescope into
My mind from heaven
And I stood there looking upward as
The darkness turned to dawn
And received that strange transmission until
Finally it was gone
And though I knew beyond a
Shadow my discovery was real
The person that I longed to tell
Was sound asleep with Neil
In some parallel dimension maybe
Tonya is still mine
But in this one she loves someone else
That left me to search the sky
So I went ahead and wrote this
To alert you to my findings i call it
"Truth Is a Dimension Both
Invisible and Blinding"
You can give me the awards now
You can knight me or whatever
I've got nothing going on now
Me and Tonya aren't together
You can go ahead and laugh at
Me and all of my conclusions
Symposiums and seminars and
Think tank institutions
You may even talk to Tonya
Let me ask her if you do
Please tell her I still love her
That will always be the truth
Of Desert Canyon Station
I was driving with my headlights off
Just stars for navigation my telescope
My notes and my ham sandwiches and coffee
Sometimes you must be all alone and there
Ain't no way to not be
I was thinking about Tonya
How things had rearranged
And everything can come full circle
We were back to being strangers
She was with a man named Neil now
That's all I knew about him
But, I was happy she was happy
Real happy that she'd found him
It was just after 11 when I
Pulled off at the lookout
The parking lot was empty though the
Air still smelled like cookouts
And yes I admit I toked one
That doesn't change what happened
Anyway you're not my parents
And it really helps my mapping
Of the System 611, a Magellanic cluster
I'd been watching for a while
I got my telescope adjusted
And I turned it toward an
Unassuming patch of dusty sky
That was really fifty million stars
A billion lightyears wide
And then all at once it felt
As if time had been suspended
And a vision poured into me
Like a bottle'd been upended
I was filled with revelation
Both infinite and finite
That filtered down my telescope
Encoded in the starlight
It said, "Truth is not immutable
It'self is a dimension
Truth can be both weighted down
And warped in strange directions
Truth has a shape that alters
Each according to observer
Sometimes you must be close to it
Sometimes you must be further
Truth can bend and truth can break
Depends on how you ask it
It frays or it may blaze out
At some pall bound for Damascus
And it sometimes gets mistook for God
Sometimes for his servant
It both exists and doesn't
Like a star that's not observed yet
Which all at once returned my
Thoughts to System 611
Still twinkling down the telescope into
My mind from heaven
And I stood there looking upward as
The darkness turned to dawn
And received that strange transmission until
Finally it was gone
And though I knew beyond a
Shadow my discovery was real
The person that I longed to tell
Was sound asleep with Neil
In some parallel dimension maybe
Tonya is still mine
But in this one she loves someone else
That left me to search the sky
So I went ahead and wrote this
To alert you to my findings i call it
"Truth Is a Dimension Both
Invisible and Blinding"
You can give me the awards now
You can knight me or whatever
I've got nothing going on now
Me and Tonya aren't together
You can go ahead and laugh at
Me and all of my conclusions
Symposiums and seminars and
Think tank institutions
You may even talk to Tonya
Let me ask her if you do
Please tell her I still love her
That will always be the truth