Standing inside the rain
               waiting on a song
                               jerking off a cigarette
               a bum smiles at you
                               tires wash by
               caught in a turning wave
                               of night and branches
                                              falling off corners
               not caring where you land
                               you could stand most anyplace 
                                               it¹s in your nature.

Streets black with rain
               water on your cheeks
               you brush water off my cheeks
The lamppost light tosses rings across the street
I catch your voice through a swinging door
                Fishing pennies from the gutter
                You are like a ditch into which I kick
                all my garbage--paper cups and bottle caps,
                old bones and torn clothes, empty boxes
                and my best pair of dice. I go for broke--
                throwing it all in the wake of your eyes.

Rain man take a raggedy bone and beat it on my head.
                Make me love. Make me love.
                like thunder on a sunny day 
                                  let it break
               Tear the sky wide open
                             you take it
                                            take it for me
               shove it in a shaman¹s bag
               with sticks and bones and broken stones
                             make it under an umbrella
                             make the sky go upside-down
                             don¹t question life, just play me

               you were always one to slide up and down hills 
                             for the hell of it
                             the whole fucking laugh of it 
                                              frantic         smile
                                              mud on your cheeks
                                                            on mine
              a couple of wet rats
                             bodies squeaking together
               my hair twisted round your neck 
                             your tongue in my ear
               rain between our legs

I lost my mind to you in the middle of a rainy night 
               Now I got a hole in my dreams
                              and love is leaking
                                      all over the
                                      all over the
                                      all over me
                                      all over you
                                      all over your
                                      all over my       my

                                      all over the sky