Now that all is stilled and silenced  that the rushing roaring daylight  has lost itself - its hysteria  in the all-amassing night -  I too gently lose myself  beyond the open window  where a journey unfolds  into the city of rain    Music's never made such living sounds  absorbing the night's rythem  the walls resonate with a thousand tiny drums  soft shards of liquid glass dance on metal pipes  mixing dust and dirt and grime  into a shining lubricating all-consuming oil  some drop away barely making contact  each bursting on impact  into a fountain in the air  dribbling off the lips of window ledges  splashing silver splinters in the blackness  scales of lifted paint turn to almost living flesh  smearing - it slides and streams into a opening  in the underworld below  revealing secret routes  where the trappes earth breathes  yellow streetlight breaks its beam across the water  electric currents hum, steaming in the dampness  cascades carry me away  wash away the tiredness  cool the fetid air  I turn to where you're sleeping  gently swimming through these hours  on to morning - unaware  and even though i know  all of this rise and disappear  with the dawn into the sky  tonight everything glistens -  like a jewel under the rain  tonight the city is silenced -  lost under the storm.