Songtext Honeydew (no light) Josh Ritter

Honeydew (no light)

Dark days
Lead to dark nights
Lead to dark years
No light

First heard about your legend, Minnesota way back when
Taking from the rich and giving to your friends
And your friends were the poor, up and down the line
They might inherit the world a little bit at a time

There are places on the Upper Plains no comfort's ever been
You made a holy mission out of laying siege to them
You were spotted in Bemidji, you escaped from Grand Marais
Everywhere you're wanted there you're wanted all the way

Dark days
Lead to dark nights
Lead to dark years
No light

Take the farmer and his family barely living day to day
And some mysterious illness caused his wife to waste away
But the bottle that you left at the door said, "Take a drop
Your prayers have all been answered, now take up your bed and walk"

Take the tale of the banker man from Lake of the Woods
Like the devil himself had come to town dressed up a snake as best he could
You chopped his tail, let him live, his neighbors burned his bags
He came to town in purple, now he's leaving in rags

Dark days
Lead to dark nights
Lead to dark years
No light

Everywhere that you'd go, you were surrounded by your myth
To believe in someone, though, you don't gotta know where someone is
So I've never known your whereabouts, I always know you're there
Among the ones with nothing, giving what you have to share

First, the cops came, then the feds came, then the army came, the men
Who wore no uniform saying who they mighta been
I told them all the same thing, I didn't have to lie
I said I couldn't give you up no matter how hard I tried

Dark days
Lead to dark nights
Lead to dark years
No light

Though I'm chained upon this mountain now, sometimes the doubts still creep
But who am I to ken the lines first stretched upon the deep?
I know you're not the vulture, you might just be the chains
At the end of every day, your face is all that still remains

Apparition is the mother of a million beliefs
And I've had enough to know there are those you shouldn't have to meet
But I believe in you, my honeydew, I know you'll come for me
I'll be singing how you broke me out even as you lift me free

Dark days
Lead to dark nights
Lead to dark years
No light
No light
No light