Friday, February 24, 2023

Girl in the War - Josh Ritter

Girl in the War - Josh Ritter
4:23
The Animal Years, 2006
Written by John Ritter

A song that sounds like a love song but is actually an anti-war diatribe in disguise.  It kicks off with a Dylan-like jangle, nearly but not quite becoming "Fourth Time Around."  Then a Ritter version of that high thin wild mercury sound.  Highly literate as always, the lyrics open with a very chilling premonition: "All those words that we wrote / Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go."  The Constitution is inviolable until some man-child demagogue decides it isn't and his sheep praise him for it.

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