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The Rain

from Red Sun by Helen America

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lyrics

We stand outside in the rain tonight and swallow the wet smell of home
We’ve nothing left of the charms of youth but the shards of disease in our bones
And the weight of the storm and the wet of the sky as it presses our eyes is the cost
How much we have seen and how fiercely we’ve dreamed and we know what we’ve lost
So sing high sing high with your ghostly voice
Ring hard in your silvery brain
Let scream the wind in your eggshell skull
That is pounded pounded pounded by the rain
I once knew someone with diamonds for eyes
And I held the reins of her world
But as tight as we’re lashed to the mast we are light as paper to the raging wind
We are nothing to the wind
So sing high sing high with your ghostly voice
Ring hard in your silvery brain
Let scream the wind in your eggshell skull
That is pounded pounded pounded by the rain
Come fill to the brim and raise up your glass in a toast to the darkening sky
As we pitch our tents in the field of our death let us drink to the when and the why
Let the rain in the cracks in your brain let it crash let it rush into each hollow space
Show the birds in the skies the whites under your eyes
Let the light fall from your face
And sing high sing high with your ghostly voice
Ring hard in your silvery brain
Let scream the wind in your eggshell skull
That is pounded pounded pounded
Sing high sing high with your ghostly voice
Ring hard in your silvery brain
Let scream the wind in your eggshell skull
That is pounded pounded pounded pounded pounded
By the rain

credits

from Red Sun, released November 8, 2019
Helen America - Acoustic guitar, vocals
Mitchell Wayne Hysjulien - Percussion
Christy Mooers - Bass, violin, vocals
Orchestral rain and thunder sampled from "Here, Now" by Christy Mooers, performed by the St. Olaf Orchestra. Audio courtesy St. Olaf College, used with permission.

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Helen America Seattle, Washington

Helen America is a singer/songwriter, cartoonist, and multimedia visual artist. Her music is deeply personal and passionate avant-garde indie-chamber-pop, with the dense lyricism of Joanna Newsom, the visionary weirdness of Jeff Mangum, and the raw emotional energy of Patti Smith. ... more

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