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Gutters Full Of Rain Lyrics
A gutter full of rain
An empty picture frame
A house out at the edges of the city
Never noticing the war
Till it's right there at your door
And suddenly your hands are bloody
I was seeking to possess
Now another girl's caress
Is on your flesh
the bitterness is tasted
There's nobody in your chair
No hand to touch my hair
The sun even the air seems wasted
Let it go now
Let it all slip away
And we'll start it all over again
Me like a million others before
Trying to make sense of the rain
Were these twenty years a dream
Was it ever as it seemed
Get to wonder if it really existed
'Cause the thief who stole my life
has taken too my faith
I can see now how the world gets twisted
Let it go now
Let it all slip away
And we'll start it all over again
Me like a million others before
Trying to make sense of the rain
In spite of all the shame
Sometimes I hear your name
I think of us when we were younger
And I'm shutting out the noise
And I'm trying to hear the voice
That used to tell me love was stronger
Light another cigarette
But the one I got's still lit
I can't seem to keep my fingers steady
Never noticing the war
Till it's right there at your door
And suddenly your hands are bloody
An empty picture frame
A house out at the edges of the city
Never noticing the war
Till it's right there at your door
And suddenly your hands are bloody
Now another girl's caress
Is on your flesh
the bitterness is tasted
There's nobody in your chair
No hand to touch my hair
The sun even the air seems wasted
Let it all slip away
And we'll start it all over again
Me like a million others before
Trying to make sense of the rain
Was it ever as it seemed
Get to wonder if it really existed
'Cause the thief who stole my life
has taken too my faith
I can see now how the world gets twisted
Let it all slip away
And we'll start it all over again
Me like a million others before
Trying to make sense of the rain
Sometimes I hear your name
I think of us when we were younger
And I'm shutting out the noise
And I'm trying to hear the voice
That used to tell me love was stronger
But the one I got's still lit
I can't seem to keep my fingers steady
Never noticing the war
Till it's right there at your door
And suddenly your hands are bloody
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losing something you've worked so hard for, and wondering why you bothered and how you'll ever muster up the energy to deceive yourself once again. Young love
According to this it is about his parents' divorce.
http://www.cupantae.com/davidgray/grayday2.html
In his own words: He describes it as "a weird one, a painful thing, and the emotions I felt surfaced as an emotional current in some of the songs that are on the record." Although he is still in contact with both parents, the break-up has "absolutely altered my relationship with them, it has had a profound effect. It has made everything compltely different, my whole slant on the past, and the way things actually were, and what I actually saw, and what I didn't see. My whole take on the family unit has been shattered by what's happened, and the things i have found out since then have had a massive effect on my relationship in the family and on myself."
I could be wrong but I think it has to do with losing his wife/girlfriend because he cheated on her. Also his reference to "war" could be taking retribution on the one that replaced him as the boyfriend/husband.