My Top 1000 Songs #906: New Lover

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Two days after Chris Bell's crushing break-up song, we've got singer-songwriter Josh Ritter with a less depressing yet truly world-class divorce song (off 2013's The Beast In Its Tracks). Over a gentle, hypnotic, descending chord progression, Ritter admits his contributions to the break-up, wishes future romantic happiness to both himself and his ex with seeming earnestness, but ultimately confesses he'd be quite fine if it didn't work out so well for her. It's a steady steam of brilliant lyrics, soothing and savage.

Spoiler alert:

"I hope you've got a new lover now, hope you've got somebody who
Can give you what you need like I couldn't seem to do.
But if you're sad and you are lonesome and you've got nobody true
I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me happy, too."

Acoustic session:

Live 2013: