Red Rain Liturgy

{singer starts instantly with no intro} Cold hands in the dark (ahhh)

{slow picked chorused bass joins} Wet sleeves and a bitter spark

{dry vintage kick drum joins} Red reflections in the puddles glow

{gated snare enters} Running water through my hair,

I go

Lipstick fading in the gray

Whispering words I cannot say

Mentally repeating what I hide

Walking with the secrets deep inside

Red rain, wash nothing away (wash nothing away) {tremolo guitar rings out}

Underneath the scarlet streetlights bright

Everything is washed in bloody light Repeating the confession in my head

To the empty pavement that I tread

Red rain, wash nothing away (wash nothing away)

{synth drone intensifies} I asked the water to forgive what only I

remember

{tempo stays steady, half-time

synth feel} But the past remains cold like a dying ember

Every drop that touches my cold skin

Cannot clean the heavy weight within

So I walk beneath the crimson glow

Nowhere left for this regret to go

{low female self-harmony enters} Red rain,

wash nothing away

(wash nothing away)

I arrived clean and carried everything

home

{instruments fade out slowly} {only

synth

drone

and single bass note remains}