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Golden Age Of Radio, 2002
Written on Josh Ritter
This is a dark ballad, with all the elements of outlaw Americana: a figure leaving his family, a small town, a train, the devil, Heaven, train tracks. "Some say that man is the root of all evil / Others say God's a drunkard for pain / Me, I believe that the Garden of Eden / Was burned to make way for a train." Ritter delivers the fatalistic, almost Scriptural lyric with a nasal drone. The melody is simple, except for a melancholy mandolin break in the middle.
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