You Can’t Control the Weather

[Verse 1] You drew a line around the flood Put your hands in the mud Told the river where to turn Then watched your little kingdom learn You made a map You made a law You named the thing you never saw Built your house against the sky Then acted shocked when it learned to cry [Pre-Chorus] There's pressure in the wire There's warning in the bone There's something in the black cloud That does not come alone [Chorus] You can't control the weather You can't bargain with the flood You can't hold back the thunder When it's already in the blood You can't control the weather You can't name what it becomes You can pray into the siren But the siren still comes [Verse 2] You sold the rain a better name Called the lightning well-behaved Put a collar on the wind Then wondered why it bit again I saw your towers bow their heads I saw your saints get soaking wet I saw the road give up its dead And crawl back underneath the bed [Pre-Chorus] There's pressure in the wire There's warning in the bone There's something in the black cloud That does not come alone