I have sent a drop of rain that you will get some time tomorrow Two inside a paper cup just to drown away your sorrow Another drop upon the heart that I now seek to borrow Three more frozen with the words we kept holding to the morrow I'll send a drop of rain for each tear that you have wept One at a time to ease the pain of promises made but never kept So save the water inside jars, my garden ceiling is turning gray Each blade of grass a glass-like shard since the day I went away.
In the absence of light, she sang to me a lyric We had both been awake, but I could barely hear it And although she was desperate, no sound was left heard Through her quivering lips, never uttered a word I listened for hours, as the sun scorched the earth Until night fell upon us and the moon came to birth Every dream that we shared, the *** and the violence She now carries despair and that gut-wrenching silence Memory of her faded as time grew less relevant And years fled in the spires of light with no end I will never know of the things she had said But I felt them sink into where I lay with the dead.