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Rain Smell Like Everything I Lost lyrics
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Intro
Door still creak when the humidity swell it up Thunder rolling low like it got business on this side of town Little one in the back room asking if the lights gon' stay on tonight I stand in the doorway letting the rain talk first before I step in
Verse 1
The Palmetto rain tap like a bill collector with no patience left in him Headlights paint the glass with the same old faces I used to run with back then Kids voices cut the thunder, they don't know the sound got a body count too Grease from the vent ride the steam, mixing with the smell of wet leaves and old oil Hand on the handle, it stick from the humidity the same way the past stick to the present Salt on the tongue from the coast breeze, fighting the diesel from the trucks running late The block don't give you time to adjust, it hit every sense until you remember where you at Tonight the rain smell like everything I lost and ain't getting back
Chorus
Rain smell like everything I lost Rain smell like everything I lost And I still breathe it in, still walk through it slow The block don't need eyes to find you when the rain start talking Rain smell like everything I lost Rain smell like everything I lost
Verse 2
The same rain smell hit different when it carry my brother name in every drop Weight sit on the chest before the water even hit the ground on the ninety-five Sirens in the distance sound like the same song from that night the call came through Opa-Locka lights blur in the wet, but the memory don't blur, it sharpen every time Touch the same steering wheel, palms remember the heat from gripping too tight that night Taste the same copper in the mouth from biting down on words I ain't never say out loud The senses don't let you forget the weight, they make you carry it again every time it rain And I still step lighter like the ground might give out under what I owe
Chorus
Rain smell like everything I lost Rain smell like everything I lost And I still breathe it in, still walk through it slow The block don't need eyes to find you when the rain start talking Rain smell like everything I lost Rain smell like everything I lost And I still breathe it in even when it burn the lungs
Verse 3
Look in the puddle on seven ninth, see the same eyes that watched him go that day Voice in the echo off the buildings sound like the one I used to argue with every week Overtown got a way of showing you the version of you that stayed too long in the same spot Hand on the wall to steady, the concrete still warm from the day, same as his shoulder used to be The smell of rain on the pavement bring back the same tightness in the throat I can't swallow Taste the same as the night I promised I wouldn't let the block win no more The block hold the mirror up in every sense until you see what it already see in you And what it see look a lot like what I swore I wouldn't become back then
Verse 4
The smell of rain now pull me toward the same corner I left five summers ago on six second Sound of dice in the distance make the palms itch like they remember easy money in the pocket Taste of cheap liquor on the tongue from memory, even when the bottle ain't in reach no more Touch of the phone in the pocket feel like the same calls that used to come at three in the morning Lauderhill nights got a texture that make the old exits look like open doors again The senses fight dirty, they use what you love to pull you back to what you hate the most But I bite down harder this time, let the rain wash the itch off my hands for good
Chorus
Rain smell like everything I lost Rain smell like everything I lost And I still breathe it in, still walk through it slow The block don't need eyes to find you when the rain start talking Rain smell like everything I lost Rain smell like everything I lost And I still breathe it in even when it burn
Verse 5
Little one, when the rain start, don't just stand in it, listen to what it saying to you The smell got names in it, the sound got warnings, the sight got mirrors if you look close Touch the wheel like it got a story to tell, taste the air like it got a test in it every time Carol City family house still got the same light that stayed on for us when the power went out Miramar got the same rain but the little one don't have to carry the same weight if he learn early The senses are the first book the block give you, read it right or it read you instead So when it rain, remember the names, but don't let them pull you under like they tried to do me
Outro
The rain still got my name on it But the little one got a chance to write his own story in it
Inside the recording
Door still creak when the humidity swell it up Thunder rolling low like it got business on this side of town
Rain smell like everything I lost Rain smell like everything I lost
The rain still got my name on it But the little one got a chance to write his own story in it
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