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The Rain Can't Wash It lyrics
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Intro
Yeah... Some days the only thing louder than the rain is the quiet when you still choose to stand on what you can't see.
Verse 1
Porch light flickers like it cut a deal with the dark to stay burning through the bill Corner store man slide the foil plate across the counter like he see the empty in your eyes Steam rising off the blacktop on eight twenty six where the rain just finished its sermon Faith in the way he don't ask for the money when he see the look on your face Hope in the nod he give when your hand shake counting change too slow for the pace Love in the quiet bag push like he know the fridge at home been empty for days On the block the rain test who still got the trio beating underneath they chest When the shut off notice on the fridge say the light might die tonight But the walk back make the foil sweat cold before you even reach the porch light.
Chorus
Faith hope love the rain can't wash away The rain can't wash it, no the rain can't wash it away Faith hope love the rain can't wash away
Verse 2
Court house steps slick from the morning rain, plastic chair sticking to your skin The folder in they hand thicker than the hope you walked in with this morning Daughter text "daddy when you coming home" while the judge read consequences like a warning I-95 at three in the morning, wipers fighting the sky like you fighting to stay human You say the three words under your breath like they the only thing the gavel can't touch Faith when the sound of the wood make your stomach drop, hope when the bus finally show Love in the way you still kiss her forehead at four a.m. like the night ain't take nothing from you But the rearview show the same exit your pops took when he ain't never come back through.
Chorus
Faith hope love the rain can't wash away Even when the gavel fall and the folder don't close The rain can't wash it, no the rain can't wash it away
Verse 3
In the cracked mirror above the sink the lines in your face match the ones he left with Daughter breathing soft in the next room, her little chest rising like the only proof left You ask the glass if you still the one who break the chain or just another link in the mess The trio look back at you through her eyes when she wake up asking why the roof leak again You press your palm to the crack like you sealing the promise with skin instead of words And for once you don't lie to the mirror about how close you came to letting it all go.
Verse 4
The corner at six second got a voice that sound like your own on your worst day It whisper faith is for the ones who ain't had to identify the body yet Hope is the story you sell yourself before the first real test hit your chest Love is the knife that twist when the face you trusted do you dirty for less You walked past that corner every morning choosing the long way to the bus stop on seven ninth Every time the easy wave from the dark side of the lot tried to pull you back in You swung back with the names like they was brass knuckles made of something the rain can't reach And the voice got quiet long enough for you to hear your own heartbeat say keep going, don't fold.
Chorus
Faith hope love the rain can't wash away Even when the system say you don't belong on this side of the line The rain can't wash it, no the rain can't wash it away
Verse 5
Grandma porch still got the same chair rocking in the wind when the rain come down But now you the one sitting there telling your daughter how the foil man changed the day How love showed up in the steam off the blacktop, how hope rode the bus that was running late How faith was the only thing that didn't flinch when the gavel came down like judgment day When I'm gone make sure they know I fought the voice on six second with these three in my hand And left them the code that don't melt in the 305 heat or wash in the rain The rain gon' fall every season but the light on the porch stay on if you the one who keep it lit.
Outro
Yeah... The rain can't wash it.
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Yeah... Some days the only thing louder than the rain is the quiet when you still choose to stand on what you can't see.
Faith hope love the rain can't wash away The rain can't wash it, no the rain can't wash it away
Yeah... The rain can't wash it.
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