Letters to Rose (I Think It’s Gonna Rain)

[MID-TEMPO] [INTRO | SIMPLE INSTRUMENTAL] Dear Rose [VERSE 1] It’s been a while since last I wrote Life has stripped off another coat. Where it has chipped my age is showing I’m paddlin’ ways water ain’t flowing I am a tad confused today I don’t remember all this gray So much gets lost along the way I’m pretty sure it looks like rain [INSTRUMENTAL] [CHORUS] I can’t recall if you are someone I ever knew a friend at all or just good memories accrued Rose you know me now better than I know myself Bones of desiccated hopes my mind upon a shelf Dear Rose [VERSE 2] Long since the kids been grown and left I’ve hit the skids but do my best and Lord forbid my knot’s untying Hang on is that the children crying? Dear Rose how I remember you or at the best I think I do The clouds are spreading like a stain I think we best expect some rain [INSTRUMENTAL] [CHORUS] I sift the drift of years God gifted me with through my mind But gaping rifts they shift unkindly eating what was mine If this is all of great and small that I recall that’s left The weight of uncreation creeping in is cruel theft Dear Rose [VERSE 3] The wind picks up as it draws near my skin it itches with the fear inside a jar as dying ember Morning comes I won’t remember Rose is it raining where you are? I can’t remember is it far? You know I love you to the moon God wishes so, I’ll see you soon. Dear Rose (I Think It’s Gonna Rain) Dear Rose (I Think It’s Gonna Rain) Rose (It’s Gonna Rain) Rose (It’s Gonna Rain) (Gonna Rain) (Gonna Rain) (Rain) (Rain) (Rain) (Rain)