Why I Love Josh Ritter, Part 1
Tonight, Steve, Tori and I got our "Fan Boy" on at the Josh Ritter concert. We were fortunate enough to be able to rest against the stage. Yup. I was in the front row, Steve and Tori behind me. The pictures are fantastic because the stage isn't itty bitty.
Read carefully, the lyrics are slightly modified. This is a transcript (from memory) of part of the concert tonight- this is the song, "You Don't Make it Easy, Babe":
Here I am standing at your window again
Waiting for you to say go away or come in
I’m your locked door’s worst knocker
I’m your curtain’s best friend
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy Babe
I’m trying hard to love you - I’m looking for an easy way
Your friends ask about me you say I can be found
With the cheap romance novels with their spines battered down
Oh the heart has no bones you say so it won’t break
But the purpose of loving is the pounding it takes
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy Babe
I’m trying hard to love you - I’m looking for an easy way
The ropes that have bound me leave no marks by their knots
And though they’re your hair that don’t mean I’m not caught
I know the song of the handcuffs as they scrape across the floor
But that new thing you’ve got I’ve got no clue what it’s for
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy Babe
I’m trying hard to love you - I’m looking for an easy way
With fortune’s rocks millstones you hang round my throat
And a brick for my window weighted down with a note
I hope you find someone just as hard as you come
In this hard world sadly that’s so easily done
*spoken* I'd like to dedicate this song to one of our singers who is usually with us.
He's a beautiful Soprano.
He has a sick cat, so he stayed home with it.
So let's keep the sick cat and our friend in mind. I dedicate this song to that friend.
So Dick Cheney, wherever you are, this is for you. *end spoken*
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy Babe
I’m trying hard to love you - I’m looking for an easy way
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy ---- Dick
I’m trying hard to love you - there’s gotta be an easy way
Read carefully, the lyrics are slightly modified. This is a transcript (from memory) of part of the concert tonight- this is the song, "You Don't Make it Easy, Babe":
Here I am standing at your window again
Waiting for you to say go away or come in
I’m your locked door’s worst knocker
I’m your curtain’s best friend
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy Babe
I’m trying hard to love you - I’m looking for an easy way
Your friends ask about me you say I can be found
With the cheap romance novels with their spines battered down
Oh the heart has no bones you say so it won’t break
But the purpose of loving is the pounding it takes
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy Babe
I’m trying hard to love you - I’m looking for an easy way
The ropes that have bound me leave no marks by their knots
And though they’re your hair that don’t mean I’m not caught
I know the song of the handcuffs as they scrape across the floor
But that new thing you’ve got I’ve got no clue what it’s for
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy Babe
I’m trying hard to love you - I’m looking for an easy way
With fortune’s rocks millstones you hang round my throat
And a brick for my window weighted down with a note
I hope you find someone just as hard as you come
In this hard world sadly that’s so easily done
*spoken* I'd like to dedicate this song to one of our singers who is usually with us.
He's a beautiful Soprano.
He has a sick cat, so he stayed home with it.
So let's keep the sick cat and our friend in mind. I dedicate this song to that friend.
So Dick Cheney, wherever you are, this is for you. *end spoken*
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy Babe
I’m trying hard to love you - I’m looking for an easy way
I’m trying hard to love you - you don’t make it easy ---- Dick
I’m trying hard to love you - there’s gotta be an easy way