Concrete Rain

I kept my hands in my coat

Counted the cracks in the floor

Your name on the mail by the door

Still I said nothing at all

The kettle died on the stove

Black pool in the sink by dawn

I watched my face in the glass

Like I was already gone

And the room kept turning

Slow and mean

And your voice came back

Through the seams

I was stone, I was still

I was cold in my mouth

But the ground kept calling

Pulling me out

Concrete rain, take me down

Concrete rain, break me now

I held it in

I held it in

Concrete rain, take me down

Your shoes by the radiator

Mud on the heel, red clay

I traced the shape of the fight

With my thumb in the tray

The phone kept blinking blue

Like a wound in the night

I said, "It's fine, it's fine"

But my jaw went tight

And the room kept turning

Slow and mean

And your voice came back

Through the seams

I was stone, I was still

I was cold in my mouth

But the ground kept calling

Pulling me out

Concrete rain, take me down

Concrete rain, break me now

I held it in

I held it in

Concrete rain, take me down

I was a fence line

I was a locked jaw

I was a small dark room

With the door off

Then your shadow hit me

Like a hard wave

Now I’m split wide open

On this last day

Concrete rain, take me down

Concrete rain, break me now

I held it in

I held it in

Concrete rain, take me down

Concrete rain, hear me now

I’m not stone

I’m not stone

Concrete rain, take me down

Say it plain

Say it loud

I was built to bend

Then I burned down