You can hear the hotel humming

She grabs her shoes and heads out in the rain

Another chorus of the times you could and you could not refrain

The sun undresses the horizon

You grab your phone and text the lie

That you’re where you’re supposed to be this time

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You watch the lightning flash across the windowpane

But you can barely see the morning through the rain

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I carry distance like a burden

My encumbrance and my strain

Forty years across the sands

Of your devotion and my shame

So I’ll blow a kiss across the garden

Gethsemane, it seems to me

Virginia’s just a brick to ease the pain

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I’m hardly able to sort the sugar from the cane

Cuz I can barely see the morning through the rain

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All my memories fit into a frame

But I can barely see the morning through the rain

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The deluge urges me

And the flood submerges me

In her scent that lingers

And her flavor on my fingers

For every ark you fill

There’s a hole you never will inside

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So won’t you call me Moses

Oh won’t you call my name

Call me home

Call me through the dark

When I have lost my way

Ginny, please receive me

Trust me even when I lie

Believe me when I say I’ll try to change

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These clouds could wash me clean

All my sin and all my shame

But I can barely see Virginia through the rain

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All the world it runs in circles

Between heaven and the drain

But I can barely see Virginia through the rain