when rain forgets

When the rain forgets my name,

I will still remember.

{female voice begins dry at zero seconds,

slow and melancholic, descending three-note chorus-bass motif enters immediately,

cold and intimate}

The streets will dry,

the stone will soon forget

How we stood here beneath the red window (ahhh)

The rain washes the pavement slate clean

And leaves no trace of the things we used to know

{soft dry kick drum enters,

clean tremolo guitar joins,

low synthesizer tone}

When the rain forgets my name,

I will still remember.

I made my repeated confession to the glass

But the ultraviolet light has turned to grey

And every unanswered prayer begins to pass

{drum machine, gated snare,

sparse floor toms, melodic chorus bass} These towering buildings don't hold our

ghosts

They are only concrete in a veiled city

Our reflections in the puddles fade away

Without anger, without pity {steady restrained drum

machine beat, warm chorus bass} The city never promised to remember me.

(never promised)

I am not healed,

I am just still here.

Carrying the weight of what is gone.

{tension builds slightly, low synthesizer tone grows louder,

clean tremolo guitar swells}

When the rain forgets my name,

I will still remember. (remember)

{full traditional darkwave instrumentation,

melodic chorus bass, gated

snare, tremolo guitar, low synthesizer

tone}

When the rain forgets my name,

I will still remember.

The rain returned to water.

I remained what it could not erase.

{gradually remove synthesizer and guitar,

leaving only female voice,

chorus-bass motif, and soft dry kick.

End on one unresolved bass note with no fade}