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Pretend It Rains
(Verse 1)
We built our house on thirsty ground
Swore that we’d figure it out
The blueprint said a river’s underneath
Now there are hairline cracks in the concrete
I hear the foundations giving a groan
You turn the music up on your phone
I watch you water wilting plants
You’re giving chance after chance
(Pre-Chorus)
And every morning, ritual slow
I'm mapping fault lines down below
Measuring the drop, a desperate math
You draw a long and careless bath
(Chorus)
So we pull the heavy curtains shut on sunny days
Lost inside this dry and loving haze
You kiss my mouth and say you taste the sky
We fill the well up with a lie
And just pretend it rains
Pretend it rains
(Verse 2)
You say you need it more than me
Some kind of born emergency
So you just drill a little deeper down
The only treasure you have found
Is a hollowness I used to keep
For me to swim in, cool and deep
You keep the faucets running wide
Like you don’t see the desert inside
(Chorus)
So we pull the heavy curtains shut on sunny days
Lost inside this dry and loving haze
You kiss my mouth and say you taste the sky
We fill the well up with a lie
And just pretend it rains
Pretend it rains
Oh, the sound we make
(Bridge)
I’m signing off the deed to what is gone
Can't pay the interest on a thousand-year drought with a dawn
This deficit is written in the clay
What kind of god can make this debt go away?
I’m wrestling with the balance sheet, a truth so stark and plain
You’re out there on the porch again, searching the clouds in vain
(Outro)
So just pretend it rains
Let's just pretend it rains
(Mmm)
The dust is settling on the sill
The house is getting very still
(Let's just pretend)
Still...
About The Song
"Pretend It Rains" transforms the stark environmental warning about the depletion of U.S. groundwater into a deeply personal and claustrophobic metaphor for a one-sided, emotionally draining relationship. The news story's concepts of an "accelerating decline" and an unsustainable "groundwater debt" that may take thousands of years to recover are recast as the experience of one person giving their entire emotional reserve (their "aquifer") to a partner who takes without replenishment. The song’s core theme isn’t just about feeling empty; it’s about the active, desperate, and ultimately futile act of two people colluding in a lie—pretending there is nourishment and life in a situation that is barren. Musically, it channels the dark, intimate, and minimalist pop aesthetic of artists like Billie Eilish, where a breathy, close vocal performance delivers a devastating truth over a beat that feels both modern and unnervingly hollow.
Production Notes
Concept: The production should mirror the lyrical theme of increasing desolation and hollowness. It begins with a sense of intimacy and denial, and gradually drains of life until only a stark, rhythmic pulse remains.
Vocals: Main vocal captured with a Neumann U47 or similar warm, large-diaphragm condenser mic for an extremely close, breathy, ASMR-like quality. Record doubles for the chorus, panned wide but mixed low. In the bridge, introduce a more desperate, slightly strained layer. Heavily layered, pitched, and processed backing vocals should create an atmospheric pad that feels like a phantom storm.
Vocal Chain: Minimalist. Gentle compression (LA-2A) to even out the intimacy, followed by a plate reverb with a long pre-delay to create space, and a slapback delay mixed very low for texture.
Instrumentation: A deep, syncopated 808 bass is the rhythmic heart, paired with a sparse, skittering hi-hat pattern. A lonely, melancholic Rhodes piano plays the core chords, but with high-end rolled off. Introduce a subtle reversed synth swell leading into each chorus.
Arrangement & Mix Automation: Start the track feeling relatively 'wet' with reverb. As the song progresses, automate the reverb and delay sends down, making the mix progressively drier and more claustrophobic. By the final outro, the vocal should be almost completely dry, as if the 'water' of the mix has evaporated, leaving only the stark performance and the ticking rhythm. The outro should feature the sound of settling dust or fine gravel layered subtly under a fading, heartbeat-like 808 pulse.
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