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Child in the Rain

by Isaac Watters

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When I was a kid in the desert in Arizona, whenever it rained it would rain really hard, the wash would fill up and we'd run down in it and wade out in the water. It was such a rare occurrence to have a river running through our backyard that we really enjoyed it.

Now living in LA I still think a lot about water and the desert, and the way that we've drastically altered the landscape, especially just in the last 100 years.

Try driving around your city and think about where the streams used to be, how wide the river would get when it would flood, before we encased it in concrete, we've made this desert into something entirely different, less wild, more controlled. It feels like we've robbed the landscape of its child-likeness, and dressed it up in a suit to go work in a tall building.

The first line in the song, "I was just asking for some understanding / where the wall reaches the sea" references my thesis project in architecture school. I proposed an International Museum of Border Conflict at Friendship Park south of San Diego where the border line runs down a hill across the beach and into the waves. In the last 15 years since my project the US border patrol has replaced what was just a chain link fence that families could meet at and talk through, with two thirty-foot tall walls that are constantly patrolled, as if it is a war zone. If you get a chance to visit, you can walk down the beach from San Diego, or up from Tijuana, and you'll see a wall rising up in front of you on the continuous coastline. It's the most unnatural thing. Whoever built that wall must have lost their childlike mind.
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I was just asking for some understanding
Where the wall reaches the see
Just crying at the candid line
That tore my heart from me

Satisfied to be your lover, holding on to you
I was beginning to forget all of the loves I never knew

Flat on my back against the falling tree
I'm hovering over the ravine
Still full of everything I tried to say
New canyons spilling out of me
I see you everytime I close my eyes
Child in the rain, running through the forest, laughing

You're not mourning the rebellion of putting up a house
Or the joy of having children or even just a spouse
Your just contemplating fire, you say you're not afraid
You say the conflagrations holy the resetting of the day
Youre saying I should listen to it,
Sit down and really listen to it, sit down

Flat on my back against the falling tree
I'm hovering over the ravine
Still full of everything I tried to say
New canyons spilling out of me
I see you everytime I close my eyes
Child in the rain, running through the forest, laughing

Running through the forest, running through the forest, running through the forest

When we stepped out of the tower
On the seventy-third floor
Saw the city stretched below us
Saw what used to be the door
Of a vast and empty floodplain
And the river was so wild
We suffocate the wilderness to entertain the child
We suffocate the wilderness to entertain the child
I remember the floodplain
And the river was so wild

Flat on my back against the falling tree
I'm hovering over the ravine
Still full of everything I tried to say
New canyons spilling out of me
I see you everytime I close my eyes
Child in the rain, running through the forest, laughing

Written by John Isaac Watters

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released November 29, 2022
Vocals / Guitar: Isaac Watters
Drums: Josh Adams
Bass: Gabe Noel
Piano / Synths: Mitchell Yoshida
Guitar: Mark Noseworthy
Background Vocals: Sydney Wayser

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Isaac Watters Los Angeles, California

Isaac Watters has been busy dreaming up new ideas. He’s forever been a creator, using his mind to bring his ideas to life, whether via the visual or musical mediums. But in recent times, the soft-spoken innovator’s output has blossomed in a new and exciting way. “This is finally the record I was always meant to make,” Watters says of his forthcoming debut release. ... more

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