Lyric

Rain taps code on my window

Three short notes, then a pause

I wake up reaching through the dark

For a voice that never calls

There’s a streetlamp burning outside

Like a lighthouse for no sea

Every car that passes slowly

Sounds like you returning to me

I keep your number in my phone

Though the line went dead last spring

Sometimes the screen lights up at midnight

But it never says a thing

I tell myself it’s only weather

Only wires in the wall

But my heart keeps answering static

Like it heard you after all

Are you in the rain tonight?

Are you hiding in the signal?

I can feel you near the light

Like a ghost inside the crystal

Are you in the rain tonight?

Send a sign across the distance

Even one small broken whisper

Would be proof that I existed

I found a message half-recorded

On an old machine downstairs

Just a breath before the silence

Like a secret trapped in there

I played it back until the morning

Till the tape began to bend

Every crackle sounded human

Every ending begged again

People say the mind makes patterns

When it cannot stand the truth

But if grief is only madness

Why does madness sound like you?

Are you in the rain tonight?

Are you hiding in the signal?

I can feel you near the light

Like a ghost inside the crystal

Are you in the rain tonight?

Send a sign across the distance

Even one small broken whisper

Would be proof that I existed

In my dreams the city floods

And the stars fall underground

You are standing on the platform

But the train won’t make a sound

I run until my lungs are fire

But the station pulls away

You smile like you forgive me

Then dissolve into the rain

Are you in the rain tonight?

Are you hiding in the signal?

I can feel you near the light

Like a ghost inside the crystal

Are you in the rain tonight?

Or am I calling through the distance?

Leave me one small broken whisper

Let me know you still existed

If you can hear me

Knock once through the rain

I’ll stay awake again