I've watched this performance dozens of times and every time it floors me. Josh Ritter is maybe the most talented songwriter I've ever encountered and while I like his version of this tune, Chris' interpretation of it has made this the definitive version for me.

I could only hope to write lyrics with half the creativity of something like this:

After that it got colder, and the world got quiet. It was never quite day or quite night.
And the sea turned the colour of sky turned the color of sea turned the colour of ice.
After that all around us was vastness, one glassy desert of arsenic white,
And the waves that once lifted us, shifted instead into drifts against Annabel's sides.