Slow Leaves - Autumn Rain Lyrics

There's a bird outside the window
Whose reflection blinds the hollowed hole
Inside I'm only waiting
Yearning for the same frustrating sun
Each lesson I've been learning one by one

Dee dee dee dee dum

I left some bread on the window sill
The whisky jacks and whippoorwills
Abreast and feathers trembling
Don't you know the winter takes a toll
And everyday I'm preparing for the cold

ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

I hope to be the turn that took the wheel
Around the bend and over
Where the road descends
In chrome and steel
An open ended one way deal
The time I lost in constant hurry
All that's sad but necessary
Summer rain before the storm
The costumes no one knew you'd worn

The tapping on the window pane
It's only autumn rain

I walk the street when no one's there
I caught myself in a window's glare
A bird up on the wire
Water dripping softly from the dew
An echo dances round the avenue

da da da da da da da

All of the secrets in your heart of hearts
The letters burnt and torn apart
The constant rush, adrenaline
The fire's touch, the mortal sin
The winter wind that stole your breath
The rise and fall of summer beating down on us
The far off wars
And all that comes and came before

The tapping on the window pane
It's only autumn rain

And as another honest year goes by I look around and nothing's changed
I don't know why
The weather's strange
Memories locked in picture frames
Troubled youth and carelessness
The spell uncast, the morning kiss
The final break, the starting block
The garbage littered parking lots

The tapping on the window pane
It's only autumn rain

Tell the bird outside my window calling
It's only autumn rain falling