This song is about actions done by people under the guise of love and sympathy but which result in pain and confusion by the recipient. It's about un-needed advise given to the sick or dying. It's about words of hate sugar-coated in spiritual language. And it's about overcoming these sins and being washed clean.

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1889 Lyrics: Jeff King Music: Mike Werbicki I felt the fire beneath your eyes when you told him what you thought when you burnt away his past with a few of your opinions you killed a man, you killed a man, you killed, you killed a man My heart has started from its stupor like the crashing streaks of fire. Lightning flash again again everytime your hate rise up. Everytime you kill a man you kill a man, you kill a man. Bleed away this blackened heart it kills you like you kill the man Bleed away these frozen words they kill you like you kill the man I'm reeling from the blow that you freely gave to him you call a brother and dripping from your mouth is love but love like stinging tails. A serpent's rattle kills another man it kills another another man. Tear away these masks of love and show yourself for what you are Wipe away, send the rain, send the rain down. Send the rain to fall on us, send the rain to wash away. Copyright (c) 2002 Hypersongs Ltd. and Liteflame Music Ltd.. Published by permission of the author.

This painting, Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 by James Ensor, is the inspiration for this song's title.