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Song of the Day

Josh Ritter - Honeydew (No Light)

Song of the Day

Minnesota Public Radio

Music, Music Commentary

4.5605 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Song of the Day is “Honeydew (No Light)” from Josh Ritter’s album I Believe in You, My Honeydew, out now.

Josh Ritter will be performing at the Fitzgerald Theater on Saturday, November 8.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Dark Dark days

0:25.6

Lead to dark nights

0:29.6

Leading to dark years

0:33.6

No light first heard about your legend minnesota way back when taken from the rich and giving to your friends

0:48.6

and your friends were the poor up and down the line they might inherit the world a little bit at a time.

0:56.0

There are places on the upper plains, no comfort's ever been.

1:00.0

You made a holy mission at a lay in sea to them.

1:05.0

You are spotted in Bermidgee, you escape from Grand Maray.

1:09.0

Everywhere you wanted there you're wanted all the way

1:12.6

Dark days

1:14.6

Leave the dark nights

1:19.6

Leave the dark ears

1:24.6

No light

1:32.3

Take the farmer and his family barely living day to day And so mysterious illness caused his wife to waste away

1:36.3

Look at the bottle that you left

1:38.3

And the door said take a drop

1:41.3

Your prayers have all been answered

1:43.3

Now take up your bed and wall take the

1:45.5

tail of the banker man from lake of the woods like the devil himself had come to town

1:51.2

best of the snake as best it could you chopped his tail let him live his neighbors burned his bags

1:57.2

he came to town in purple now he's leaving in rags.

2:01.2

Dark day.

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