Ritter Josh - Potter's Wheel guitar tab

Potter's Wheel

From Josh Ritter

Words and music by Josh Ritter

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I close my eyes and it all returns like the spinning of a potter's wheel

Trying to stay ahead in morning as time came running with us

And she beat us to the finish as we ran through the fields

You were born in the city, I didn't recognise you,

Your beauty unexpected like a flower in the concrete

Some gods far below, in worlds undiscovered

Sent you up through ruined temples to find me on the streets, yeah

I'm an alias of who I am, a counterfeited fake

In a picture I am kneeling like a dying Saint Jerome

Hurling rocks at the demons who had tried to come too near

Til you came in and posessed me, now I feel at home

I remember the time we walked for seven hours

I thought about the people I had known for so long

All the castles I had built out of fine and precious sand

Til you came in like the tide, now I don't care that they are gone

As we floated up the river I translated the verses

That were written on memorials to the ships that had sank

And I thought about the people traded sinking for uncertainty

And drowned because of loneliness before they reached the banks

Of the beach near Barcelona where the young girls cry for Mary

And they bury earthen vessels in the rocks by the sea

I am sending out a bottle with a prayer upon the waves

That you'll find inside my picture and your memory will unfold me

We were talking 'bout a trip that I had taken to the canyons

And you told me 'bout a river that had cut through time

Leaving only the pictures of long-dead sons and daughters

And you told me that their paintings looked a lot like mine

I try and watch myself to see what I am saying

But my heart is on my collar and I'm asking you to take it

I don't want to go back to the way things were before

Before the dawn turns into morning I want you there to break it

And a thousand years from now when our names are just a memory

And poets have recorded what has happened in the past

Lovers loving in the night will find our forms in constellations

Seekers seeking for salvation will find our stories in stained glass

A boy in the city who has never seen the morning

As he's running arm-in-arm with you through the fields

Will be caught unexpected by a flower in the concrete

It will all return again just like a potter's wheel