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