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Greasy food and piss and shit
Drugs and guns and good people and bad people
Love and loss and doubt and pain
Hunger, love and broken dreams
It's all here
Under these grey skies
the rain keeps falling
Under grey skies
the people keep on walking on
My family loves me very much
they told me so just before I came here
Trying to make a legacy
so they can be proud of me when I'm gone
So pickle me in Formaldehyde
and put my head on your mantelpiece
so I can look at you all the time
Living, breathing sweaty air
Passing through the lungs of all the people
Love and loss and doubt and pain
Never to return again to this place
So hold me stranger on the train
Hold me woman at the bus stop
Hold me taxi driver, late at night
Hold me woman in the supermarket
Hold me stranger on the subway
Hold me so I can sleep tonight
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Biblical Rain
02:50
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Biblical rain wash down over me
from my window I can see
the Saint James Church in the pale moon light
and a tungsten cross illuminate the night
The sky is heavy
the air is thick
the bed sheets are damp
I am sick
I pray for rain
to wash down over me
to cleanse me, heal me
help me to breath
Last night I saw sick
over and over
my stomach hurt
and I couldn’t stand up
I was lying on the floor
sweating through my pores
and I thought to myself
this could be the end
I was trembling, shaking
knees a-quaking
couldn’t stand up
couldn’t care for myself
And all God’s children
cared me me
Let my sweat and tears pore
and mix with the rain
mix with the rain
Let that rain run to the river
and float down stream
out to the sea
Let those waves roll over me
and carry me home
carry me home
I was trembling, shaking
floating in the ocean
lying on my back
looking up at the stars
Helpless, child-like
nothing left in me
I lay on my back
and let them care for me
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