Lyrics
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
You built a city in the sky to run,
hollow bone and balloon, you outpaced the sun.
Light as a feather, you drifted from the deep,
where the long things hunt and the leviathans sleep.
But the cloud has a shadow that never lets go —
it follows your sail wherever you go.
[Pre-Chorus]
Look to the west where the weather turns wrong,
that isn't thunder, that's been hunting you long.
[Chorus]
It doesn't rain water — it rains down on you,
a thousand cold mouths and a sky split in two.
The writhing storm coils where the high winds form,
you cannot outrun what falls from the storm.
Coil and descend, coil and descend —
the shadow has found you again.
[Verse 2]
Scatter your ships, break the fleet, fly apart —
every plan that you make only quickens its heart.
For each frightened hand reaching back for a blade,
another long body uncoils from the shade.
The more that you ready, the more that you scheme,
the wider it opens, the louder you scream.
[Pre-Chorus]
No fortress of balloons, no map and no run —
it swims through the heavens, it swallows the sun.
[Chorus]
It doesn't rain water — it rains down on you,
a thousand cold mouths and a sky split in two.
The writhing storm coils where the high winds form,
you cannot outrun what falls from the storm.
Coil and descend, coil and descend —
the shadow has found you again.
[Bridge]
And when it strikes, the world goes white,
a scattering, blinding, terrible light —
it takes from you, and it gives you a sight:
the whole churning sky in a moment of flight.
Then the quiet. Then nothing at all.
Then the long shadow over the wall.
[Final Chorus]
It doesn't rain water — it rains down on you,
a thousand cold mouths and a sky split in two.
The writhing storm coils where the high winds form,
you cannot outrun what falls from the storm.
Coil and descend, coil and descend —
no sanctuary holds in the end.
Coil and descend, coil and descend —
the shadow has found you again.
[Outro]
Light as a feather, you drifted away —
and the storm turned back to the clouds, and the grey.
