After the Rain Video (MV)

After the rain
A holy pagan light fell from cloud
And struck the pavement slab
In all the canyoned silence moved no crowd

But in the stinking mist alone
In the incense of the dying rain
I stood on the brown-soaked stone
And heard the song of the drain

'I am the hope and the escape
I am the tunnel to the drowning sea
I am the gay, merry and the dismal
But I am neither the light nor the way

Into me rolls the runaway penny
To all things I am sanctuary
I am their church, their catacomb, their nunnery
And I am neither the light nor the way

By the trickling cave on the kerb I sat
My head stone-heavy in my helpless hands
And in the sour valley of the stone-faced flats
The drain sang to me and I dreamt

Of those distant, waiting lands
Where none made, no promise is broken
And the streams run clear to the honest sands
Where no man has stood and thus no lie been spoken

'Yes, into me rolls the runaway penny
And longs the hopeless refugee
I am catacomb and nunnery
And I am neither the light nor the way

I am merry in song and sing of the sea
Into me trickles the washed-out day
I drink of the hopeless refugee
But I am neither the light nor the way
No, I am neither the light nor the way'