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I was envisioning the big group vocals for the choruses as the kind of “congregation” of people living in this great, perfect world… followed by the one, lone voice at the end of each chorus who’s not so sure if he wants to be there. And would that ever get old? For me, probably? Is it better to have everything just right all of the time? Or be human with flaws and challenges and emotion? This is the question. “One of those walks got me going on the concept of living in this perfect place (call it Heaven if you like, no pressure) and getting to do exactly what you want to do whenever you want to do it. If you hit it at the right time…right around sunset…it looks like something out of fantasy fiction movie.

It’s a huge, wide open field that leads to a small winding trail up a hill. “I’ve got a walk/hike down the road from my house in Massachusetts,” Handsome Ghost’s singer/songwriter Tim Noyes tells Atwood Magazine. Sky true blue Time doesn’t move I’ve been living this way for a while Five star meals And baseball fields Well pour a drink and we’ll kill some time Down to the river bend Down there I couldn’t swim for my life Dive deep the highest height Look now I’m swimming the butterfly It’s an undeniably infectious singalong blending the sweet with the bittersweet, the delicate with the tender – which has admittedly been one of the band’s strongest qualities for nearly ten years running.Īdd to that mix just a bit of twang, and Handsome Ghost have on their hands a cathartic, catchy campfire song that will play as well in neighborhood bars as it will in clubs and stages throughout the country. Heartfelt and hauntingly beautiful, Handsome Ghost’s second single of the year ( following August’s “Neptune”) gently picks apart the concept of heaven, or some kind of perfect paradisiacal place, through a smile-inducing soundtrack of warm, spirited, harmony-rich acoustic folk complete with banjo, mandolin, tambourines, acoustic and electric guitars. Don’t ask me to justify this statement, but I sincerely think “ Heaven Isn’t Long For You” is both one of the happiest and one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard.