[[Intro: 16 BARS , acoustic fingerpicked in DADGAD o capo alto, un 12 corde che raddoppia l’arpeggio dal Verse 2.] [Verse 1: solo voce, acustica e un basso rotondo e morbido. Spazzole sulla batteria, quasi niente.] We swore it was the real thing—we swore it on the front steps— toasting with cheap wine and borrowed blankets; there was no one else around. Now your name is just a taste lingering in my mouth, like a memory scribbled on a scrap of paper you can no longer find, like a promise made while drunk… [Pre-Chorus: entra un Mellotron con archi, la batteria passa alle bacchette.] And I pause, and I remember how you’d laugh at nothing at all in the rain. And I can’t—I just can’t—reconcile it all with the face I’ve come to hate today. [Chorus] How could I have loved you so much, only to find I can’t even stand the sound of your name now? How can a fire of such magnitude burn out in the span of a single day? How could I have loved you so much, when now there’s nothing left but rain? Tell me, how is it possible— to have been so close, and now feel like total strangers? [Verse 2] The midnight train, your head resting on my arm— we’d defied the whole world just to keep each other warm. Then a door slammed shut, then a lie—followed by another— two people in the kitchen, with nothing left to say, everything fallen to pieces. [Pre-Chorus] And I pause, and I remember how you’d laugh at nothing at all in the rain. And I can’t—I just can’t—reconcile it all with the face I’ve come to hate today. [Chorus] How could I have loved you so much, only to find I can’t even stand the sound of your name now? How can a fire of such magnitude burn out in the span of a single day? How could I have loved you so much, when now there’s nothing left but rain? Tell me, how is it possible— to have been so close, and now feel like total strangers? [Bridge] Was it you, was it me, or was it just the ordinary days that wore away the beautiful things, in the quietest way possible? No one is to blame, yet everyone bears wounds And I am left holding onto the bitterness, even though I don’t want it anymore [Final Chorus, extended , elettriche sature a muro ,una Rickenbacker che arpeggia e una Les Paul con sustain, batteria piena, archi alti.] How could I have loved you so much And now I can’t even stand the sound of your name? How could I have loved you so much How could I have loved you so much And now there’s only rain… rain, and more rain… [[Outro : 36 BARS lungo strumentale con assolo melodico e lento, che si spegne piano sull’acustica dell’intro. ]
