Name: Before the Rains
Duration: P00H03M05S
Description: Continuing with my Gabriel-esque fascination this week, combined with the heavy influence of one particular band I've been listening to a lot lately, as it's going to be the next VSS project. The furious indignation and helplessness of the week's events pointed the way to the four portraits in the verses.

Doug Davis - Before the Rains

from Round 9, Week 3 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Continuing with my Gabriel-esque fascination this week, combined with the heavy influence of one particular band I've been listening to a lot lately, as it's going to be the next VSS project. The furious indignation and helplessness of the week's events pointed the way to the four portraits in the verses.

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before the rains came down
her father held her
in her wedding gown
he knew
the moments come too few
he knew

the soldier steals a glance
the unwed bride considers
circumstance
he knew
she'd lost her field of view
he knew

and when the flood begins
no mercy overcomes the sins
lay your black heart down
don't go where you cannot feel the light

the junkie's neighbor rants
you've got to change, for fortune
or for chance
she knew
he'd reached his Waterloo
she knew

the sergeant stood his ground
without a thought beyond
the battleground
she knew
the war he'd signed on to
she knew

and when the flood begins
no mercy overcomes the sins
lay your black heart down
don't go where you cannot feel the light

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from Round 9, Week 3, released December 7, 2015

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