Truth Is a Dimension (Both Invisible and Blinding) Josh Ritter

I got off the highway north of Desert Canyon Station
I was driving with my headlights off, just stars for navigation
My telescope, my notes and my ham sandwiches and coffee
Sometimes you must be all alone and there ain't no way to not be

I was thinking about Tonya, how things had rearranged
And everything can come full circle, we were back to being strangers
She was with a man named Neil now, that's all I knew about him
But I was happy she was happy, real happy that she'd found him


It was just after 11 when I pulled off at the lookout
The parking lot was empty though the air still smelled like cookouts
And yes I admit I toked one, that doesn't change what happened
Anyway you're not my parents, and it really helps my mapping

Of the System 611, a Magellanic cluster
I'd been watching for a while, I got my telescope adjusted
And I turned it toward an unassuming patch of dusty sky
That was really fifty million stars a billion lightyears wide


And then all at once it felt as if time had been suspended
And a vision poured into me like a bottle'd been upended
I was filled with revelation both infinite and finite
That filtered down my telescope encoded in the starlight