Music Friday: "Rattling Locks"

This week I've listened to the work of Josh Ritter quite a bit. 

In the past, I featured a number of his songs a while back and his excellent song "Another New World" and the Punch Brothers' cover of it. 

Today I offer his hypnotic "Rattling Locks." One video is the studio version, and the other is live, which doesn't have the best sound or picture quality, but you get to see how they perform the song live. 





Rattling Locks
by Josh Ritter

There was a time I had the right key,
rolled the tumblers,
threw the bolt,
on every wandering eye I caught.
But something has changed.
It's all wrong.
I'm out here in the cold
with a wet face
a-rattlin' your locks.
There ain't nothin' new about the world 
that I ain't learned from 'a just standin' here in this spot.

Ain't nothin' new about the world 
that I ain't learned from just watchin' you go by.
I tell myself people are cold.
And strangers pass
separate themselves from love 
by buildin' walls a hundred thousand miles high.
Frostbite and heartsickness
ain't neither one of them so bad 
you can understand the reason why.

Black hole, black hole

Are your eyes as empty as they look?
Black hole, black hole
How can your two eyes be as empty as they look?
All along I thought I was givin' you my love,
but you were just stealin' it. Now I want back
Every single thing you took.

Black hole, black hole
Black hole, black hole

Black hole, black hole
Black hole, black hole

Black hole, black hole
Black hole, black hole

I had a dream where I was dyin',
but it wasn't no nightmare.
I was peaceful as I fell,
and if I was fallin' in to heaven.
Heaven must be hotter than the Bible tells.
I woke up sorry I was living.
Rather than rattlin your locks,
I'd rather spend the night in hell.
In hell
In hell
In hell

Black hole, black hole [Repeat]