when rain forgets

When the rain forgets my name,

I will still remember.

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

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

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

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.

When the rain forgets my name,

I will still remember. (remember)

When the rain forgets my name,

I will still remember.

The rain returned to water.

I remained what it could not erase.