When It Rains These Days
Have you ever felt
Like you were just watching your life?
Staying alive
Opting for flight instead of fight
The hours pass
They assume you have nothing better to do
Than to pace in a room
Speaking the untrue
Lightening in the sky
The twilight of the popular mind
If the wind-up toys ever remember
They made themselves blind
And when it rains
These days
It feels like forever
And when you ask
When I might feel better
I say, “maybe, baby, if we
Get a change in the weather.”
Have you ever known?
You were throwing it away
Based on a bill due to pay
Tomorrow and yesterday
For everything we want
Because what we believe we need
And compromise is an indignant child
With an open mouth to feed
Yet if you don’t participate
They will find another
Who wears your clothes, cashes your check
And visits your mother
And when it rains
These days
It feels like forever
And when you ask
When I might feel better
I say, “maybe, baby, if we
Get a change in the weather.”
Have you ever wondered
Who is living in your house?
When you see it from the street
Inside a shadow of doubt
So kick some burnt leaves
Into the gutter of your youth
We’re all running out of time
Which we may accept or refuse
The conclusion is in doubt
If it remains the same regardless
Between gravity, the moon, deep sleep
Servants, saints, the faithful and godless
And when it rains
These days
It feels like forever
And when you ask
When I might feel better
I say, “maybe, baby, if we
Get a change in the weather.”
Coda:
All under the same sky
Imprisoned by the same why
All frozen in time
Through a ghost lover eyes
