Acid Rain

    Robert Delong

    Wanted it to

    Feel the same way

    As the first time

    As the first time

    But the feeling

    Slipped away

    To red green blue

    And then I saw you

    In the airport

    It’s the same thing

    As the first time

    As the first time

    I watched the tiles

    Slip away

    Into the restroom

    Then I saw you

    Wanted you to

    Glimpse the same things

    That my eyes saw

    That my mind saw

    But the vision

    Slipped away

    Into nothing

    Ran down my brain stem

    And out my fingers

    I felt the cold air

    And touched your black hair

    The rush of colors

    Acid rain

    The colors screened you

    And then I saw through

    Follow the signs

    Through the desert

    Through the desert

    To the other side

    One cycle later

    I met my savior

    In the arches

    In the forest

    Is it trees or twilight?

    Can’t ascertain

    I was in the taproom

    And then I saw you

    Then I was running

    Pushing air in my lungs

    Feeling the light

    Bounce off the moon from the sun

    And slip into nothing

    Into nothing

    Feel it slip away

    Slip away, slip away

    Slip away, slip away

    Background

    “Acid Rain” is the second song on Robert Delong’s 2014 EP entitled “Long Way Down.” The song seems to describe a series of images from the narrator’s perspective. It might be a story of seeing a former flame after a long time and finding them on a different page. Listeners will love the way the lyrics are laid over his incredibly catchy melody in the soaring chorus.