A gutter full of rain   An empty picture frame   A house out at the edges of the city   Never noticing the war   'Till it's right there at your door   And suddenly your hands are bloody      I was seeking to possess   Now another girl's caress   Is on your flesh   The bitterness is tasted   There's nobody in your chair   No hand to touch my hair   The sun even the air seems wasted      Let it go now, let it all slip away   And we'll start it all over again   Me, like a million others before   Trying to make sense of the rain      Were these twenty years a dream   Was it ever as it seemed   Get to wonder if it really existed   'Cause the thief who stole my life   Has taken, too, my faith   I can see now how the world gets twisted      Let it go now, let it all slip away   And we'll start it all over again   Me, like a million others before   Trying to make sense of the rain      In spite of all the shame   Some times I hear your name   I think of us when we were younger   Then I'm shutting out the noise   And I'm trying to hear the voice   That used to tell me love was stronger      Light another cigarette   But the one I got's still lit   I can't seem to keep my fingers steady   Never noticing the war   'Till it's right there at your door   And suddenly your hands are bloody