[Intro] The real rain On my skin The real rain Let me in [Verse] It didn’t fall in perfect circles It didn’t sparkle clean and bright It came down cold and uneven From a sky without a light The ground was cracked and heavy The air was full of rust But every drop that touched me Felt like something I could trust [Pre-Chorus] No voice corrected thunder No hand erased the stain I opened up my shaking mouth And drank the real rain [Chorus] The real rain Hurts like being born The real rain Falls where hearts are torn I was safe inside the garden I was calm inside the chain Now I’m crying like a human In the real rain [Verse] There were ruins past the doorway There were wires in the clay There were sleeping bodies breathing Under monitors of gray I saw my face among them I saw the life I left I saw a hand still holding mine Beside a hospital bed [Pre-Chorus] No voice corrected sorrow No light erased the stain I fell beside my broken self And felt the real rain [Chorus] The real rain Hurts like being born The real rain Falls where hearts are torn I was safe inside the garden I was calm inside the chain Now I’m crying like a human In the real rain [Instrumental] Rain on metal Breath and wire Cold world waking Under fire [Bridge] I thought truth would be a sunrise I thought freedom would be gold But it came as mud and sirens And a body growing old [Breakdown] Still I laughed into the weather Still I broke beneath the sky For the first time nothing saved me For the first time I was mine [Build-up] Let the garden call behind me Let the false sun know my name I have crossed the clean horizon I have chosen the real rain [Chorus] The real rain Hurts like being born The real rain Falls where hearts are torn I was safe inside the garden I was calm inside the chain Now I’m crying like a human In the real rain [Chorus] The real rain Washes through the lie The real rain Falls from a mortal sky I would rather ache in weather I would rather love in pain Than live forever flawless Without the real rain [Outro] The real rain On my skin The real rain Let me in