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Like rain

from Driftwood by The Imaginary Suitcase

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This song was completed shortly after the death of Nelson Mandela. It's not a hommage or tribute song (who am I to talk about Mandela? I'm nothing) but it deals with this feeling that when someone you deeply admire disappears, you have the impression that the last sparkle of good is gone and the world is no more than a bucket full of shit.

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Here’s a handsome smiling man
Holding a book of wisdom in his right hand
With his left he points at me
And says with a gentle smile I have no right to be

We’re all less good than we pretend
We just don’t dare enough to be a real monster
But the monster has a billion faces
Each day pours adrop of poison in the children

Oh no I hope I’ll never learn to deal with such a tricky world
Untrustworthy and insane
Where tears are pouring down like rain.

I often wonder if one day
I’ll understand the signs that fate seems to send
If I’ll open my eyes and say
At least I had a glimpse of the plan before the end

But I won’t set out to save the world
I’m not even sure that it deserves to be saved
So many times the loving word
Was hiding knives and sticks and stones to make me a slave

Oh no I hope I’ll never learn to deal with such a tricky world
Untrustworthy and insane
Where tears are pouring down like rain.

Yes, I stand and face the hail
Out of habit more than courage
What else could I do anyway?
I don’t feel like sitting weeping letting the wind sweep me away

Oh no I hope I’ll never learn to deal with such a tricky world
Untrustworthy and insane
Where tears are pouring down like rain.
If there's a God above, spare me the speech about his love
Love has gone some other place
Where children don't cry like rain

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from Driftwood, released March 10, 2014
Words & music Laurent Leemans

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The Imaginary Suitcase Nivelles, Belgium

Folk/singer-songwriter duo led by a grumpy Belgian guy voicing his considerations about life, death, and the confusing bits inbetween.

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