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Drinking This Rain/ I'm On Fire

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Justin Vernon Canonical path: /justin-vernon/drinking-this-rain-i-m-on-fire Related lyric paths: 6
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Drinking This Rain/ I'm On Fire

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With the cornfields as my witness

I've run out of brain

Come on down to the place where I'm drinking

Come on down like the rain

And if you don't come quick

I'm gonna dry up in this world

I think it's all coming down

All cause of a girl

And it's coming to me

Like a baseball to a bat

I'm only hitting .118

And I'm wondering where you're at

And the oak on the bar

Is like the oak in my heart

And like the oak buried deep down in the sand

I got a water at heart...

And it goes in through my mouth

And it slides into my veins

And it takes away my head

I don't have to feel the same

And my eyes go red

And my skin goes warm

And at the end of the night

I'm just cryin' in my bed

Some call it sick

Some call it pain

Some just laugh at it

But honey, it's like the rain

It's like when thirsty

And there's none in the well

It's like bringing darkness

When darkness has already fell

It's like breaking dreams of a broken man

And nothing makes it come on down

Like the rain came...

Hey little girl, is your daddy home?

Did he go on and leave you all alone?

I got a bad desire

Ooh, I'm on fire

Tell me, now, baby, is he good to you?

Can he do to you the things I don't do?

You know I can take you higher

Mmm, I'm on fire.

It's like someone took a knife, maybe edges are dull

Cut a six inch vetter through the middle of my skull

And at night I wake up with the sheets soakin wet

And a freight train runnin' through the middle of my head

An' you can cool my desire

Mmm, I'm on fire.

Ooh, I'm on fire.

Ooooh, I'm on fire.

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