It Rains All Year Without You

[Verse 1]
Kitchen clock keeps counting
Cold cup on the sill
Your mug still in the cabinet
Like you might walk in here
Still
Coat rack by the doorway
Your hanger
Empty
Straight
I talk into the quiet
Let the echo hesitate
[Chorus]
It rains all year without you
Sky stuck on this one gray view
Every month
The same old storm
Calling out your name
It rains all year without you
Soaking through the days I knew
Calendar just turns in place
But nothing ever changes
[Verse 2]
Mail piled on the counter
Your name in faded ink
I read it in a whisper
Feel my fingers start to sink
Streetlights blur the window
Droplets race
Then stay
I trace our faces in the glass
Watch them wash away
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] Tell me
Do you feel it
Wherever you are now
Does the weather ever break for you
Or are you drowning too somehow
[group harmonies swell] I keep a light in the hallway
A towel by the door
Waiting for the sound of keys
A storm I’m praying for
[Chorus]
[Outro]
[whispered vocals] It rains
It rains
I’m still here
[soft group harmony] Same roof
Same room
Same year after year

Slow-burning cinematic ballad with intimate piano and distant string swells at first; female group vocals start in fragile unison, then blossom into rich harmonies as the arrangement thickens. Gradual dynamic lift, added low strings and subtle percussion in the second half, ending on a lingering a cappella tag that hangs in the air., slow, deep