My exit unobserved,
And my homesickness absurd...
I said "water" expecting the Word would satisfy my thirst,
Talking all
about the second and third
When I haven't understood the first.
Jonah, where's that boat going... your ship set with eager
sails?
There's a swirling storm soon blowing, and no use, fishermen,
In rowing from the consecrated whale!
And just like the
clouds, they bring a darkness and a hard rain's gonna fall,
I felt the crowd bring a loneliness and a hard rain, a hard rain's gonna
fall.
And she'd always weight me down,
But, afraid I might need her, I dragged her around,
It's best to keep close sackcloth
and ash in a whitewashed town;
She wore that phony smile on her face,
I guess like a bandage on a wounded place,
While I kept the
keys to every old lock just in case.
Rehearsed indifference tossed aside,
Our narrow arms spread wide,
"What unseen pen
etched eternal things on the hearts of human kind...
But never let them in our minds?"
Oh, the clouds they brought a darkness
and a hard rain's gonna fall,
And all my laughter ends in emptiness and a hard rain's gonna fall.
My every medicine causes more
illness and a hard rain's gonna fall,
And until I let you go I didn't know, you were never mine...
You were never mine at
all.
But now I spend my days in ever-increasingly complicated ways,
Convincing myself of the rightness of each word I say.
My
exit, unfair if unobserved!
My exit, unfair if unobserved!
My exit, unfair...
Ya sabur, subhannallahi, a'udhu billahi
minash-shaitanir-rajim,
al-hamdu lilllah, bismillahir rahmanir rahim.