Rise in the Rain (version 2)

Intro

Saw the water rise past the door

Couldn't stop the tide but I could hoist it some more

Verse 1

Walls were thin as wet paper, airlock where the sound went out

Cause every brick they knocked into my chest just turned to gold somehow

Rain drumming through the roof like it knew the plan

Ceiling kept leaking water but I kept writing through the pan

Pencils floating on a puddle in the floor

Till one morning when the leak got wide enough for me to walk out for more

Pre-Chorus

Every drop fell like it meant to

No umbrella just an open door

Chorus

I rose in the rain, they said I'd drown

Said the tide would break this old guitar down

But the water was my proof and every note I found

Was a fist that kept on rising up from under ground

Verse 2

First customer showed up with a wet umbrella

Sat down at the table, counted out his doubters

Said this leaky studio's where he finds the truth in the cracks

That every broken thing can become a brand new stack

Engine purring on four hours' sleep and coffee that was thin

Still he heard the heartbeat underneath the roof I'd never win

So now it's drying out, paint's up, neon sign

Heard the rain outside still counting down the time

Chorus

I rose in the rain, they said I'd drown

Said the tide would break this old guitar down

But the water was my proof and every note I found

Was a fist that kept on rising up from under ground

Bridge

Broke is what they called me

Fixed it with an anchor, not a mirror

Outro

Rise in the rain