This song is about a 1908 pre-WW1 love affair between Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his on again off again chambermaid Helga.
Lyrics
Raine
You’re tired and your weary love, close your eyes and bleed
Cause everything around you, a certain shade of grey
If “rain will wash away our sin”,
how come I can’t breathe the same moonlight?
I know it’s all too late, but I was hoping we could break away
The rainfalls down my fingertips, I drown a little each day
That passes by and I don’t how and I don’t why,
She won’t bleed the same moonlight.
I know it’s all too late, but I was hoping we could break away
His calculated words, the sudden shock has brought us to our knees
Bound and broken to the floor stuttering and fallen out of love
Shall I number the ways she moves me?
I know it’s all too late to fall
I can feel your apathy burning down these walls
I know it’s all too late for change
I can feel your apathy cutting through my waist.
but I can’t hold on.