Irene-Brazos

[ti:Irene] [ar:Brazos] [al:Saltwater] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Irene - Brazos [00:50.37]Neighborhood is lining up again [00:53.78] [00:57.04]The local food bazaar [00:59.28] [01:00.42]Filled to the brim [01:01.65] [01:02.64]The sky a grey light drizzle but quite calm [01:06.31] [01:10.03]Pedestrians stream home [01:12.12] [01:12.89]Before the storm [01:14.36] [01:16.36]I am a dot [01:19.18]A particle free [01:21.65]I'm waiting for [01:23.42]The surge from the sea [01:25.88] [01:28.72]And the wind picks up [01:31.91]Brushes down the track [01:34.20]Each raindrop just pinprick on my back [01:38.72] [01:41.29]So i stop by brother mark's [01:43.76]To stay the night with friend [01:47.30] [01:59.73]I pour 4 whiskeys on the rocks [02:03.84] [02:06.60]He cooks beneath the dimly lit [02:09.95]Kitchen clock [02:11.20] [02:12.45]All the while we talk of hurricanes [02:16.51] [02:19.12]Back in houston then [02:21.68]Canoeing in the rain [02:23.82] [02:25.96]Laura drops [02:28.96]Fingers in the sauce [02:30.96]She says it's good for all of us to eat [02:35.83] [02:38.55]So we stop [02:41.39]Enough to hear the knock [02:43.80]Swaying branches [02:45.03] [02:45.58]Raindrops wrapping sheets [02:48.85] [02:50.90]Tapping on the top [02:53.64]Wrapping us in breeze [02:57.88] [03:09.22]The night i spend sleeping on the floor [03:13.03] [03:16.17]In and out of sleep a room with no door [03:20.79] [03:21.55]The tree outside projects a silhouette [03:26.10] [03:28.97]And being backing fourth [03:31.08]Just like a blade of grass [03:33.54] [03:35.46]Yes i'm up [03:38.21]So i walk down the hall [03:40.62]I watch all my friends sleeping sound [03:45.64] [03:47.74]I stop long enough [03:49.84]To spread my thoughts around [03:53.16] [03:56.20]Ooh [03:58.37] [04:05.88]I awake to the sound of breakfast bells [04:10.59] [04:12.88]So i guess that means the battery held [04:18.01] [04:19.16]We take a candle to the street [04:22.82] [04:25.90]Walk out in the limbs freshly [04:28.32]Cracked in our face [04:30.47] [04:31.89]The air is clean [04:33.27] [04:34.97]The trains still at a halt [04:37.14]The boarded up windows on the block [04:42.17] [04:44.54]Sit on serene [04:47.73]The calming aftermath [04:49.96]The entrails of the midnight bath [04:54.78] [04:56.93]And of course we're holding hands [04:59.38]Or at least thinking like that