If I could hug my love, could I try
For your wings to cover me and let them fold
Half alive, I heard the most brilliant lie
Sleepless eyes, close the light
And rest your mind while you burn
Can't stutter when you're talking with your eyes
By cutting out your tongue you save face
Feeding on the blood lets running from a black day
Cry on black rain, cry on black rain
Cry on black rain
If I could hug my love could I try
For your wings to cover me unless I fall
Sleepless eyes, close the light
And rest your mind while you burn
You can't stutter when you're talking with your eyes
By cutting out your tongue you save face
Feeding on the blood lets running from a black day
Cry on black rain, cry on black rain
Cry on cry on black rain
Black rain, cry on
Black rain, cry on
Cry on
You can't stutter when you're talking with your eyes
By cutting out your tongue you save face
Feeding on the blood that's running from a black day
For your wings to cover me and let them fold
Half alive, I heard the most brilliant lie
Sleepless eyes, close the light
And rest your mind while you burn
Can't stutter when you're talking with your eyes
By cutting out your tongue you save face
Feeding on the blood lets running from a black day
Cry on black rain, cry on black rain
Cry on black rain
If I could hug my love could I try
For your wings to cover me unless I fall
Sleepless eyes, close the light
And rest your mind while you burn
You can't stutter when you're talking with your eyes
By cutting out your tongue you save face
Feeding on the blood lets running from a black day
Cry on black rain, cry on black rain
Cry on cry on black rain
Black rain, cry on
Black rain, cry on
Cry on
You can't stutter when you're talking with your eyes
By cutting out your tongue you save face
Feeding on the blood that's running from a black day
Lyrics submitted by Love.Is.Suicide, edited by Nettacki
Black Rain Lyrics as written by Kim Thayil Chris Cornell
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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Could I trade, For your wings
To cover me, Unless I fall
Half alive, I heard the most
Brilliant lie, Sleep is eyes
Closed to light, Deaths the mind
Wide open...
You can't stutter When you're talking with your eyes
Like cutting out your tongue to save face
Or feeding on the blood That's running from a black rain
Cry on Black Rain
If I could, Hawk my love
Could I trade For your wings
To cover me, Unless I fall
Sleep is eyes, Closed to light
Death's the mind, Wide open.
Directly from the Box Set Lyric sheet...
And rest your mind while you burn is like finally forgeting that one. Burn could mean forgeting, destroying the image or just that person getting punished.
As for what it means:
I think the general meaning would be "Lying is bad for your image". I know there's probably something more, but this is just off of a first glance and a few listens.
I wonder if there is also a connection here to black hole sun.
cornell's talking about stuttering again
and the rain once again takes on a bad connotation. cry on black rain
with black hole sun's - wont you come and wash away the rain.
i.e take away all the shit thats wrong with this world.
sleepless eyes. close the light
And rest your mind while you burn
seems to suggest his or the person he may be referring cant sleep because of the guilt
and perhaps he will punished for his crime (maybe a lie) by god or karma...
wicked song though. hope they tour australasia.