Emanuel And The Fear - Song For The Rain lyrics

Here's a song for your ears that you've heard through the years As it's chords are like many the same Such is life so it seems as the business folk dream Of a place that they'd rather call home As they sit in their cubes with their lives on repeat To work the same day until they get old But the tragedy lies in the ones who survive Just to find out they have ruined themselves To the men and the women, who work in the fields And the factories and the kitchens and the trains Here's to those whom without, this great country would die To my family, my neighbors, and my friends (Oh) I'm gonna go out and have me a night And I'm gonna sing out a song for the rain Because this life is to strange to make way through it dry So let's drink until the morning again So I climbed to the top of this bridge That just happens to be named after the place where i live And from the peak of that monstrous man-made machine I looked out on the city and my part of Jersey And there breathing it in, was then struck by an idea That had to do with the people of my time And how the things that they say and what's inside of their minds Are so frequently further from being the same That i often can't tell if who they are will remain Where they stand at the end of our conversation And from this thought I have formed a complaint And I speak this now not from the lips of a saint No, I have certainly sinned, yes I've lived And I hate to quote Bobby because I know that I look just like him But I must also say what Ezra Pound did He said if a culture allows their language to die Then nothing else that they do from that point will survive And with this in my head, I sat down and listened To the person in charge of me but I could not comprehend A single word that he said Because he didn't say anything (Oh) So I'm gonna go out and have me a night And I'm gonna sing out a song for the rain Because this life is to strange to make way through it dry So let's drink until the morning again