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"Rain in the Cathedral"

Stocks lap like ocean tides,

People are shouting in the streets

The earth shakes, the pavement cracks

Blood traces our knees

The world collapses and rebuilds itself

Like a slowly pumping heart

Heaven owes us no favors

When our procedures run out

Singing from the cathedral

Drifts through my window

While we are drinking and drinking

And outrunning storms

Maybe we could be better at it all;

But it's the same difference

Our hearts, like laws

Were made to be broken

Thunder splits the sky open

And I wonder-

How quickly the soft rain turns violent

And

How quickly I start to care

About anything at all

(One day the cathedral will be empty

One day the earth will be empty, too

I wonder when we'll say goodbye

I wonder when our voices will sing

for the final time)