[INTRO – spoken-sung, sparse guitar] oh where have you been my restless young one where have you been [VERSE 1] i’ve been out where the cold keeps shifting its weight through fences bent in the morning wind through roads that forget how they started i’ve been walking with dust in my mouth sky hanging lower every mile like it’s trying to listen in [PRE-CHORUS] and it keeps pulling and it keeps pulling and it keeps pulling [CHORUS - soft calm] it’s coming down hard rain coming down it’s coming down [VERSE 2] oh what did you see my restless young one what did you see i saw a sparrow caught up in wire at dawn headlights moving through empty grain fields a river too thin to remember its name i saw hands shaking over broken wood doors left open in houses that forgot their people a road painted over and over like nothing ever passed through [PRE-CHORUS] and it keeps turning and it keeps turning and it keeps turning [CHORUS - losing restraint] it’s coming down hard rain coming down it’s coming down [VERSE 3] oh what did you hear my restless young one what did you hear wind dragging metal across rooftops engines fading out like tired animals voices breaking up in radio static someone calling from the edge of a field no answer coming back laughter folding too fast into silence [CHORUS] it’s coming down hard rain coming down it’s coming down [OUTRO – fading, minimal guitar] oh what will you do now my restless young one what will you do i’m going back out before the sky forgets its shape and i’ll keep saying it even when it breaks i’ll know my voice before i use it [FINAL CHORUS – soft collapse] it’s coming down hard rain coming down it’s coming down
