It's been raining now

Pushing two weeks

Really brings out the colors in the leaves

It's been raining now

Pushing three months

Really brings out the black black blues in my baby's eyes

There's water in the eyes, she smiles straight across

Staring at me for another drink

I'd give her anything at this four o'clock hour

Just to see the sun rise up on her again

Lights on the road show the ghosts of cursive branches

Like curling handwriting that is filling up my dreams

Lines of metal that are shadows

The chain links that the trees grow through

I'm just thinking about the ice cubes in her glass

It's not the chopping I said that I really enjoy

But the feeling of the ax in my hand

When stacking wood for a long winter coming

For the small house we buy on borrowed money

It's been raining now

Since I don't know when

And I got more water than any man