the rain comes down
(in) endless heavy sheets
drags me
to my knees

the rain comes down

the rain comes down
drags me to my knees

the rain comes down
in softspoken streams
rippling reflections
somewhere far below

somewhere far below
concentric circles trap
a rippling reflection that i
not i

i can't see for all the fog
the forest or the trees

♪

somewhere far below

the rain comes down
drags me to my knees

the rain comes down
rips me to my knees
comes down to me,
says, "son,
he says, "son,

AH
what sun?
i'm so dizzy i can hardly think
it all keeps
spinning, the world keeps
spinning, round what? keeps
pinning me to the floor
by centrifuge, i

in a cold fugue for
so long

i caught a cold
i caught a cold in a whirlpool

♪

the rain comes down
under a sunless sky

the rain comes down
and a glimmer of

the rain comes down
a glimmer of fire

the rain comes down
like an airplane turbine
the rain comes down
like five hundred pounds of metal
the rain comes down
sizzling on oceans of hot iron
a ballet dancer looks up
into the fiery face of god
convinced in her last moments
that she will be saved
that this eternal conflagration
suspended before her grisly demise
is at last divine

♪

so long