It is impossible to distinguish The difference between Pine needles and worms On the sidewalk In the early morning January rain It's just the new year's pain Falling from the sky again Disguising living things among nonliving things So they get stomped just the same Underfoot, on the sidewalk in the early morning January rain But the voices in the air ask you to mourn But you're so far away from how you're born That you don't know how And pretend you don't care You're compassionate and then you're caustic You're religious and then agnostic You think you've found it when you've lost it Trying to decipher cryptic meaning But if the heart would just stop beating Then the scrape would stop bleeding And if it's cause and effect Then maybe something I'm doing would stop January from raining It is impossible to distinguish The difference between Pine needles and worms On the sidewalk In the early morning January rain It's just the new year's pain Falling from the sky again Disguising living things among nonliving things So they get stomped just the same Underfoot, on the sidewalk in the early morning January rain But the voices in the air ask you to mourn But you're so far away from how you're born That you don't know how And pretend you don't care You're compassionate and then you're caustic You're religious and then agnostic You think you've found it when you've lost it Trying to decipher cryptic meaning But if the heart would just stop beating Then the scrape would stop bleeding And if it's cause and effect Then maybe something I'm doing would stop January from raining