If I Could Only Dream This World Away

In the meantime though, in the words of Muriel Spark, I went on my way rejoicing.

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Then one day the shadow fell across me and stayed there. Even more than that, nothing felt original. Suddenly, after all my effort, I had lost my confidence in the force and originality of my own work. I wrote and wrote. Nothing came and if it did, it was the same old stuff as before. My old songs came ringing back, silly, bereft to my ears of their original love or intent. I felt at times as if I was hovering just above myself, watching the mediocrity of my afternoon threatening to spread across months and years into a lost decade.

And with nothing to show for myself would anyone ever believe how hard I had worked? The shadow hung and I held on, hoping for a single verse of something, anything at all that I could love.

Then one night, lying awake and looking at the ceiling, with the sound of taxis and garbage trucks trolling the streets outside our window, a story came. It was, strangely enough, about a mummy and his malign love affair with an archaeologist. I got up and wrote it in the bathroom, sitting on the edge of the bathtub. I thought the story was fiendish and tense and sad and funny.

I was proud of it. The pride I had in it propelled me forward in a rush. With each record I make there is always a song that forms the pallet by which the other songs can be painted. I liked the idea of a Victorian archaeologist, and began looking at all kinds of late 19th and early 20th century science books.

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These led me, as most science histories lead, back farther, to Newton and his gravity, his wonder, his restless curiosity, and his bewildered religious questing. I found myself reading about orbital decay, the Martian canals of Percival Lowell, the apocryphal hibernation of birds, polar exploration, the golden ratio. Looking out across the drifts of nothing, I discovered these songs buried deeply. Several songs went through numerous incarnations before being cut all together. On the whole, the songs are larger and more detailed and feel to me as if they were painted in oil on large canvasses.

So Runs the World Away marks the beginning of a new period in my life. My deepest thanks to all of them for hanging in with me longer than the shadows. Skip to content 1. Lark The golden ratio the shell The stairs ascending round themselves The trees rustle as if to kneel and listen To the heartbeat of a lark or the lark in my heartbeat The oxygen in priestly green The answers dressed in labrynthine The telescopes atop the mountains of ecstatic vision listening To the heartbeat of a lark or the lark in my heartbeat I am assured, yes I am assured yes I am assured peace will come to me A peace that can yes surpass the speed yes Of my understanding and my need The meteoric warp and wend In counterbalance to the sparks ever ascending The arrow time shoots forward though it moves through repetition To the heartbeat of a lark or the lark in my heartbeat What is it drives the driven snow?

So Runs the World Away

Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical is an adaptation of Wilkie Collin's sensational Victorian novel.

So Runs the World Away - Josh Ritter

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