It’s rained for forty days and forty windy nights   In artificial light the storm has paled my skin   And flooded out my eyes   There needs to be a pair of every animal   When will a miracle deliver you to me   And set this ship to sail?   I’m tired of waiting      But I’m still here avoiding the puddles   Wishing I had an umbrella   To shelter myself from this loneliness   My socks are soaked   My fingers are frozen   This is the life that I’ve chosen   And when you’ll come back I can only guess   I’ll be here when you do      The crashing water drops disguise a timid knock   I fumble with the lock and check the door again   But no one’s ever there   The ground has turned to mud   The sky has turned to gray   The night turns into day without a change in hue   I stop and think this through   What if I should leave tomorrow?   What if I should harden up my heart?   What if I should give up hoping?   I’m hardly coping      At last I realize a new day has begun   When like the summer sun you blaze into the room   And melt the clouds away   I wonder if the light is really here to stay   Or will you run away and never come again?   Only time will tell   But I promise that      I’m all done avoiding the puddles   With wishing I had an umbrella   How can one separate false from true?   The warmest sun   The bitterest rainfall    I want to experience it all   There’s no need to shelter myself from you