Wings Lyrics - Acoustic Live Vol. 1 - Josh Ritter

At night we crossed the border following a Black robe 

To the edge of the reservation-to Cataldo Mission 

Where the saints and all the martyrs look down on dying converts 

What makes the water holy she says is that that it's the closest thing to rain 

I stole a mule from Anthony I helped Anne up upon it 

And we rode to Coeur d'Alene-through Harrison and Wallace 

They were blasting out the tunnels-making way for the light of learning 

When Jesus comes a'calling she said he's coming round the mountain on a train 

It's my home-last night I dreamt that I grew wings 

I found a place where they could hear me when I sing 

We floated on to Hanford on a lumber boat up river 

Past the fisheries and the mill-towns like a stretch of future graveyards 

She was driven to distraction-said I wonder what will happen 

When they find out they're mistaken and the land is too changed to ever change 

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We waded through the marketplace-someone's ship had come in 

There was silver and begonias-dynamite and cattle 

There were hearts as big as apples and apples in the shape of Mary's heart 

I said inside this gilded cage a songbird always looks so plain 

It's my home-last night I dreamt that I grew wings 

I found a place where they could hear me when I sing. 

And so they came with cameras-breaking through the morning mist 

Press and businessmen-tycoons-Episcopal philanthropists 

Lost in their appraisal of the body of a woman 

But all we saw were lowlands-clouds clung to mountains without strings 

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And at last we saw some people huddled up against 

The rain that was descending like railroad spikes and hammers 

They were headed for the border-walking and then running 

Then they were gone into the fog but Anne said underneath their jackets she saw wings