I open my eyes, everything shines
We swim as the breeze blows down the coast
Down on my luck, breathing my last
Dirty your hands, carry me home
Red sky turning round, black rain falling down
If you've got love you'd better hope that that's enough
Sandstorm cuts your skin, Black Kites circling
If you've got love you'd better hope that that's enough
We came from the south to Lebanon's shore
Folded our clothes, dived into peace
The blackest of seas glittering red
Lit by the fire over our heads
Red sky turning round, black rain falling down
If you've got love you'd better hope that that's enough
Sandstorm cuts your skin, Sunbirds circling
If you've got love you'd better hope that that's enough
Ohhhh
You better hope that that's enough
Black Rain was written by Tim Rice-Oxley & Tom Chaplin & Richard Hughes & Jesse Quin.
Black Rain was produced by Dan Grech-Marguerat.
Keane released Black Rain on Fri May 04 2012.
In Tim’s Strangeland track-by-track, he said about “Black Rain”:
This is a very impressionistic song, written very quickly and drawing on imagery from Ari Folman’s amazing animated movie Waltz With Bashir. Every album of ours has a song on it that talks about war, and on Strangeland this is the son...