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In the Past Few Months I've Learnt so Much About Rain

from Mountain Songs by falling off a building

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this song came from a multitude of places, but one of them was reading that Flannery O'connor said that her expressed purpose in writing fiction was to reveal god's grace in every day life, and then i read "a good man is hard to find" out loud to my mother while we were on a trip, and it was the first time either of us had experienced the story, and THAT was a real kick in the pants, which i'm sure you can imagine, if you've ever read the story.

then, years later, long after the song, a friend came to my job and told me "grace comes somehow violent."

and a million other things.

:)


this song has been around the block many times. i still don't entirely get it, i realise.

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from the darkest lonely room
to the brightest peaceful sky
we'll shed away our fears and watch them fly
all the way back home,
picked you flowers by the road,
and the pockets of my raincoat became their hope.

in the past few months i've learnt so much about rain

i don't want this anymore
i will cast it all aside
place it in my secret drawer where it can hide
just so that you know
i will throw those wants away
if it means our friendship is at stake

in the past few months i've learnt so much about rain

i seen it come on w/o warning
in the middle of the night
and right on thru till morning
just to vanish with the daylight
i was walkin in the sunshine
and things just seemed alright
then out of nowhere
i got caught in it
i'm still caught in it

from the darkest lonely room
to the brightest peaceful sky,
we'll shed away our fears and watch them fly
from the brightest painful sky
to the darkest lovely room,
i will shed away my lies, leaving just the truth.

in the past few months i've learnt so much about rain
in the past few months i've learnt so much about grace.

you might get wet, but soon you will be drying
you might fall down, but you will get back up again.
and i don't want this anymore, this lying
i'm cold and wet, but i'll be warm and dry when i get home

and the sun comes out
we will dance and shout
and smile and clap and laugh and sing
the sunlight's covering everything
don't be surprised by all the green
the lily decked out like a king

in the past few months i've learnt so much about rain
in the past few months i've learnt so much about grace.

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from Mountain Songs, released March 25, 2008

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falling off a building Columbia, South Carolina

this act began in 2004 and just turned fourteen years old. it's been surviving on the fringes of interest since the day it was first conceived. it's worth doing. it's that thing of realising you are your own best friend and you need to take as good of care of yourself as you possibly can and in so doing you learn to take care of everyone else. ... more

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