Rain

One of those days

When I was going to see my brother in town

To give him a letter

Written by our father & sealed by our mother

Down in those times

When we used to count the squirrels at home

Or killing the ants

Just to kill time

Or to fill it

With tiny drops of guiltiness

Drizzle of remorse

And forgot

Where we've been coming from

Or why

And we've been sleeping

So tired then.

Sleeping

Sleep

Sleep (Sleep)

What have you got there in your mouth?

I said to my brother

Is it a rubber cake? (Rubber cake)

Feathers & pearls?

Or is it the taste of a stranger?

Something you should share? (Something you should share)

"You are drifting," I said

Why?

Are you a hipster, songster, gangster

or trickster?

Because if this is just a dream

Then you

Must be very strong (very strong)

"Indeed," he said

I am

Rain

It's a rain

Rain

Falling rain

Rain

Where the rain comes from

That's where I belong

Focking rain

So that's then we left town

With his pickup, a Dodge

Getaway car & astray

And astray we were driving

Away from them lights of the city

Where comfort & complacency reigns

West we were driving

West (West) (West)

Interstate, drifting

(Passing places) Passing places, meadows, ditches (Ditches)

Places bland & sad & wasted

Good at most just to depose

A dead body, if you have to

And doubtlessly no place

Where you wanted a stranger

(Pressing) Pressing your face into the dirt

And taking your breath

(When the last) the last smell you got

Is the pee of a trucker

Heading to Milwaukee

Or down to the Gulf of Mexico, who cares (Who cares)

That's where we passed by

That's where we were drifting

Away (Away)

And furthermore astray we went

Drifting into the sticks

And into the woods

And into the depth & abyss

And I thought to myself

I should better take care

Not to kill all them beetles & toads

And them mice & them moles

And them lizards & snails

Baby snakes & God knows what else

Has been crawling here

Right where this four-wheeler

Ploughed us a way through their life

And my brother said

Brother (Brother)

Let's have us a shot

Of dead butterfly blood

Cold is the night & dark is the rain

Go find yourself & won't you complain

Tipping a toe into the river of pain

Majestically floating under the endless rain

Cold is the night & dark is the rain

Go find yourself & won't you complain

And then as we stood

In the midst of the vast empty night

Blood on the needle

Blood on the tyre

Blood on the cross

The roads been so solid

The moon been so cold

The clouds been so gloomy

The stars been so dark

Like dead broken bulbs in a feckless traffic light

On the empty crossroad of our mind

That's when my brother moaned

And stared into his phone (and starred into his phone)

No reception

As he cried & he cried

Lord Lord, damn Lord

My trouble so high, my fear it is rising.

Creatures & beasts raging

Deep in the den of my sick sicken self

I'm stuck in the darkness (stuck in the darkeness) stuck in alone

And only my brother might know

Why I am drifting

And drifting away (away)

But he's drifting himself, breaking into pieces

Which been blasting slowly hovering, floating

Floating in all different directions to the most distant places

Of the focking universe

So Lord, please Lord

Please help me (help me & heal me)

Please set me free Lord

From the need of my unleashed sickness

And from the turmoil of my drifting mind

Please Lord

Put together (put together) the floundering parts

Of my scattered self (of my scattered self)

So widely dispersed

Please heal me, Lord! (Please heal me Lord)

(Please) please spread your grim angels

Your armies & tanks

And whistling missiles, oh Lord

Please spread them

Up to the skies

And to the stars

And to the moon

And to the clouds

And let them focking rain on me.

Cold is the night & dark is the rain

Go find yourself & won't you complain

Tipping a toe into the river of pain

Majestically floating under the endless rain

Rain (Cold is the night & dark is the rain)

There's no rainbow (Go find yourself & won't you complain)

Rain (Tipping a toe into the river of pain )

Falling rain (Majestically floating under the endless rain)

Rain (Cold is the night & dark is the rain)

Hear the wind blows (Go find yourself & won't you complain)

Into the middle of the earth

Where the humming birds dwell

All the highways, mountains & the trees

Focking rain is falling on & on

Every cover's washed away from me

Highway's like a diamond in the sun

Rain

Is getting colder now

Rain

From the frozen clouds

Rain

I'm getting older somehow

Snow's falling down

And covering me

Oh white rain is floating over me

Oh white rain it makes me blind

Every thing/sin is floating down to the sea

White rain will drive me out of my mind

Dark is the rain & cold is the night

Don't be afraid & you'll be alright

This will be running into the sea of delight

Swim down the river, dive for the light

Rain (Dark is the rain & cold is the night)

It's a rain again (Don't be afraid & you'll be alright)

Rain (This will be running into the sea of delight)

Never been the same (Swim down the river, dive for the light)

Rain (Don't be afraid & you'll be alright)

Everything is new (Dark is the rain & cold is the night)

How will I come through

Dam/n that rain

All the highways, mountains & the trees

Focking rain is falling on & on

Every/s cover's washed away from me

Highway's like a diamond in the sun

Rain

It's a rain

Rain

Falling rain

Rain

Where the rain comes from

That's where I belong

Focking rain

That's where I belong

Focking rain

We applaud every man

Every woman

Every child

Every dog & cat & cow

Elephants

Every pidgeon, crow & caterpillar

Every snake, snail, lizard

Bug or ant

Every spider, worm & maggot

In the fruit or in the flesh

For if they were sturdy in life

Doing God's will

And occasionally

Smile

Cold is the night & dark is the rain

Go find yourself & won't you complain

Tipping a toe into the river of pain

Majestically floating under the endless rain

This will be running into the sea of delight

Dark is the rain & cold is the night

Don't be afraid & you'll be alright

Swim down the river, dive for the light

Don't be afraid & you'll be alright

Swim down the river, dive for the light

(c) d.h.ottn 2016

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