Josh Ritter Stretching Wire
[Spoken:]
Sounds great
Yup
You can see him in the blizzard
Where night is day and day is night
And every footstep disappears
Just as soon as he goes by
He likes his life this way
Moving slow from post to post
You might think that he's a ghost
But no lo lo he's stretching wire
He's always moving forwards
Never turning back around
Always moving in a straight line
To wherever he is now
Nothing up above him
But the buzzards in the sky
And in the ground the girl who loved him
So no de lo lo he's stretching wire
Ooh...
He hears the whippers in the willow
He feeds the rattlesnakes by hand
Tumbleweeds while he is sleeping
Roll by quiet as they can
He's not afraid of morning
Or the sorrow that it brings
He'll stretch the wire till it sings
And lo de lo de lo He's stretching wire
Ooh...
