Josh Ritter - Harrisburg / Tiny Cities Made of Ashes (Modest Mouse) video free download

Anna O'Reardon

my favorite version of this song!

rorrt

Ive seen him live twice, well... three times if you count seeing him warming up for Joan Baez.And all three times he was just amazing. A real charm, and confidence about him. Which is always a good thing. Confidence without charm is just awful.

David Quinton

Josh Ritter is simply a brilliant and sadly very under rated artist. Me, I could listen to Josh all day and never get bored. Live he looks like he is having so much fun.

Tim Welch

"We knew he was gone for good", prefect way to describe how my stepdad left our family this last year

SL04

This is one of my favourite videos on youtube. Thanks for uploading!

jaco schut

i agree and i think he wants to say that happyness (what is like heaven to me) is often found close to where you are in things like friends and stuff like that and that al the technologys and social network stuff creeping up can make you forget how nice it to be really close to someone instead of spending al your time on al your 5000 facebook friend who arent really friends.

thewriter1008

It seems to me it's about someone who's searching for someplace - Heaven, or Harrisburg or somewhere. However, we see he's forced to go through Hell to get where he wants to go ("If Evil exists, it's a pair of train tracks/And the Devil is a railroad car."). He eventually loses track of the dreams of Heaven and Harrisburg, and dies unhappy with his dream partially complete. It could also be about technology pulling people apart, what with all the railroad stuff.

Tim Welch

I love this song, I think its about people who run away from their responsibilities, hence 'the devil is a railroad car', and the beginning where a man 'Slipped like a shadow from the family he made'. The man is a long way from heaven (cause he left his family) but closer to Harrisburg (maybe where his family lives) but he's still a long way away. It could also be about the lack of faith hence "there aint to reviving whats gone' and the line about the garden of Eden.

Tim Welch

@HegFalls I agree with song of your analysis but much of the song seems to be about a man who left his family hence 'the Slipped like a shadow from the family he made' and "we knew he was gone for good." Long way to heaven seems (at least to me) to mean that he isn't a good person for abandoning his family, and that he is closer to Harrisburg (where his family is?) but he's still a long way from there.

ssgyt1475

delusion to delusion - pain to pain, life moves on

Clark Riemer

@GoSitDownSomewhere Unless Ritter explicitly said it somewhere, I doubt its about Oscar Romero. First, Romero in the song explicitly rejects his faith "there ain't no reviving what's gone." Second, Romero got married. Third, the whole Harrisburg PA reference is then just odd and fairly out of place if about Oscar Romero. The song seems to me to be about existential crisis in modern life (all the train references represent technology) and the difficulty of finding an authentic life.

Colin Paton

@AcquaNeve How is it that all good artists seem to like other good artists?! Love that Blame it on the Tetons cover.

Colin Paton

Ah! Josh Ritter is a Modest Mouse fan?! That makes this the best Josh Ritter video on the Youtube. Plus a great recording too

apostolsky

обожаю эту песенку !)

fixapony

EXCELLENT performance!!!!

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