Rain songs

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

MacArthur Park written by Jimmy Webb, performed by Richard Harris
[video=youtube;tRwYQgk05DY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY[/video]
Spring was never waiting for us girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance

Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooooo

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees

Birds like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooooo

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it

I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky.

And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left my cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to make it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooooo

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
[video=youtube;wCGoOPM2_x0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCGoOPM2_x0[/video]
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?

I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?

I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?

I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded with hatred

And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Baby The Rain Must Fall by Glenn Yarbrough
[video=youtube;iJO8ZUVL1xs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJO8ZUVL1xs[/video]
Some men climb a mountain,
Some men swim the sea,
Some men fly above the sky:
They are what they must be.

But, baby the rain must fall,
Baby, the wind must blow,
Wherever my heart leads me
Baby, I must go, baby I must go.

I do not love for silver,
I do not love for gold,
My heart is mine to give away,
It never will be sold.

So, baby the rain must fall,
Baby, the wind must blow,
Wherever my heart leads me
Baby I must go, baby I must go.

I am not rich or famous:
But who can ever tell?
I don't know now what waits for me
Maybe heaven, maybe hell.

Baby, the rain must fall,
Baby, the wind must blow,
Wherever my heart leads me
Baby I must go, baby I must go.

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot
[video=youtube;NWamoeeAIHs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWamoeeAIHs[/video]
In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand
With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand
Now, I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved ones so
In the early morning rain with no place to go

Out on runway number nine a big 707's set to go
But, I'm stuck here in the grass where the cold wind blows
Now, the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast
Well, there she goes, my friend, well she's going down at last

Hear the mighty engines roar - see the silver bird on high
She's away and westward bound - far above the clouds she'll fly

There the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines
She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time

This old airport's got me down - it's no earthly good to me
'cause I'm stuck here on the ground as cold and drunk as I can be
You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train
So, I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain

You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train
So, I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Enya - Echoes In Rain[video=youtube;8DDHulO485k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DDHulO485k&list=RD8DDHulO485k[/video]Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Wait for the sun
Watching the sky
Black as a crow
Night passes by
Taking the stars
So far away
Everything flows
Here comes another new day

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Into the wind
I throw the night
Silver and gold
Turn into light
I'm on the road
I know the way
Everything flows
Here comes another new day

Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Echoes in rain
Drifting in waves
Long journey home
Never too late
Black as a crow
Night comes again
Everything flows
Here comes another new day

Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Aah-aah-aah-aah

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Phil Collins - I Wish It Would Rain Down
[video=youtube;KAD0VhxyKso]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAD0VhxyKso[/video]You know I never meant to see you again
But I only passed by as a friend, yeah
All this time I stayed out of sight
I started wondering why

Now I, I wish it would rain down, down on me
Ooh yes I wish it would rain, rain down on me now
Ooh yes I wish it would rain, down on me
Ooh yes I wish it would rain on me

You said you didn't need me in your life
Oh I guess you were right, yeah
Ooh I never meant to cause you no pain
But it looks like I did it again

Now I, now I know I wish it would rain down, down on me
Ooh yes I wish it would rain, rain down on me now
Ooh girl I wish it would rain, down on me
Ooh yes I wish it would rain on me

Though your hurt is gone, mines hanging on, inside
And I know it's eating me through every night and day
I'm just waiting on your sign
'Cause I know, I know I never meant to cause you no pain

And I realize I let you down
But I know in my heart of heart of hearts
I know I'm never gonna hold you again
Now I, now I know I wish it would rain down, down on me

Oh you know I wish it would rain, rain down on me now
Ooh yes I wish it would rain, down on me
Yes you know I wish it would rain, rain down on me
Just rain down on me

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) by Melanie
with The Edwin Hawkins Singers
[video=youtube;IZ52lk9wjZI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ52lk9wjZI[/video]
Lay down lay down, let it all down
Let your white birds smile up at the
Ones who stand and frown
Lay down lay down, let it all down
Let your white birds smile up at the
Ones who stand and frown

We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each others wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace

So raise the candles high cause if you
Don't we could stay black against the night
Oh raise them higher again and if you
Do we could stay dry against the rain

We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each others wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace
Some came to sing, some came to pray
Some came to keep the dark away

So raise the candles high
Cause if you don't we could stay
Black against the sky
Oh oh raise them higher again
And if you do we could stay dry against the rain

So raise the candles high cause if you
Don't we could stay black against the night
Oh raise them higher again and if you
Do we could stay dry against the rain

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
[video=youtube;u6BesY5Doec]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BesY5Doec[/video]
Red rain is coming down Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me

I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream
It can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch
This place is so quiet, sensing that storm

Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me

Well I've seen them buried in a sheltered place in this town
They tell you that this rain can sting, and look down
There is no blood around see no sign of pain
Hay ay ay no pain
Seeing no red at all, see no rain

Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me

Red rain
Putting the pressure on much harder now
To return again and again
Just let the red rain splash you
Let the rain fall on your skin
I come to you defences down
With the trust of a child

Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me

And I can't watch any more
No more denial
It's so hard to lay down in all of this

Red rain is coming down
Red rain is pouring down
Red rain is coming down all over me
I see it

Red rain is coming down
Red rain is pouring down
Red rain is coming down all over me
I'm bathing in

Red rain coming down
Red rain is coming down
Red rain is coming down all over me
I'm begging you

Red rain coming down
Red rain coming down
Red rain coming down
Red rain coming down
Over me in the red red sea
Over me
Over me
Red rain

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Counting Crows - Rain King
[video=youtube;izeDRfkyMAQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izeDRfkyMAQ[/video]
When I think of heaven (Deliver me in a black-winged bird)
I think of flying down in your sea of pens and feathers
And all other instruments of faith and sex and God
In the belly of a black-winged bird

Don't try to feed me cuz
I've been here before and I deserve a little more

I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been crying I've been thinking
And I am the Rain King

I said Mama, Mama mama why am I so alone?
I can't go outside
I'm scared I might not make it home
But I'm alive I'm alive but I'm sinking in
If there's anyone at home at your place
Why don't you invite them in

Don't try to bleed me
I've been there before and I deserve a little more

I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been lying
I've been sinking
And I am the Rain King

Hey, I only want the same as anyone
Henderson is waiting for the sun
Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends
After all the dreaming I come home again...

When I think of heaven (Deliver me in a black-winged bird)
I think of dying Lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Render up my body into the burning heart of God
In the belly of a black-winged bird

Don't try to bleed me cuz
I've been here before and I deserve a little more
I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been dying and
I been drinking and I am the Rain King

I said that I am the Rain King.

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain
[video=youtube;-uravhL8FbY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uravhL8FbY[/video]
The song came and went
Like the times that we spent
Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent
I laughed and she'd smile
It would last for awhile
You don't know what you got till you lose it all again

Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go

A cool evening dance
Listening to the bluegrass band takes the chill
From the air till they play the last song
I'll do my time
Keeping you off my mind but there's moments
That I find, I'm not feeling so strong

Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go

Running down by the lake shore
She did love the sound of a summer storm
It played on the lake like a mandolin
Now it's washing her away again

Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go

The boat's steaming in
I watch the side wheel spin and I
Think about her when I hear that whistle blow
I can't change my mind
I knew all the time that she'd go
But that's a choice I made long ago

Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

David Gates - Suite: Clouds and Rain
[video=youtube;PZFWRB011eU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZFWRB011eU[/video]
See the clouds adrift so far below
Ever changing as they come and go
Makes me wonder why I'm up so high
When really I am down so low

Of all the wonders I was one allowed
I think that I would always choose a cloud
Always brings my feelings right out loud
Whether I'm ashamed or proud

On this airplane comin' home to you
Sometimes I think I've flown my whole life through
My whole life through
As I wing my way to you

See the clouds they're giving life below
In colors that the canvas cannot show
Keeping secrets no one else could know
For I'm the one who told them so

Now and then I get up close to you
I'd like to stay but I'm just passing through
So I'll have to say goodbye
Until next time I fly

Make my bed, light the light
Comin' in on the midnight flight
Touch the ground and soon you will be
Safe inside reality

Change your mind, change your name
Still the music sounds the same

Rainfall don't bother me at all
You see the world reflected in the highway
Come on rainbow, I can't let you go
Before I reach the end of you someway

So the next time raindrops fall
If it makes you climb the walls
Just think of green

Journey-home · Oct 14, 2016

[video=youtube;QZ8UctaDbKE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ8UctaDbKE[/video]

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Moodswings - Rainsong
[video=youtube;8CdnrmHzHMo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CdnrmHzHMo[/video]
Caught in a rainstorm
Wondering what I must do
I'm standing alone
So many miles from you

I was thinking about our life together
Knowing it must be now or never
To get back to you

Now I've just got to get out of this rain

I can feel it washing my life away
And I know that I need to get out of this rain
And listen to my heart again

I ran away thinking it could be done
What I didn't realize
Two hearts are better than one

I was thinking about all the times we were losing
Living together can be so confusing
But we always won

Now I just got to get out of this rain

I can feel it sweeping my life away
And I know that I need to get out of this rain
And listen to my heart again

Rain rain rain
Get out of this rain
Listen to my heart again

Now I understand exactly what I must do
Cast off these shackles of time
And make my way back to you

Now I can't deny my preoccupation
Is leading me back to the sweetest obligation
I'm in love with you

Now I just got to get out of this rain

I can feel it sweeping my life away
And I know that I need to get out of this rain
And listen to my heart again

Yes I'm standing alone
Listen to my heart again

Journey-home · Oct 14, 2016

[video=youtube;7DMZn9vl92U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DMZn9vl92U[/video]

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

The Cascades - Rhythm of the Falling Rain
[video=youtube;bQstQST1GiM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQstQST1GiM[/video]
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain,
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again

The only girl I care about has gone away
Looking for a brand new start
But little does she know that when she left that day
Along with her she took my heart

Rain, please tell me, now does that seem fair
For her to steal my heart away when she don't care
I can't love another, when my heart's somewhere far away

The only girl I care about has gone away
Looking for a brand new start
But little does she know that when she left that day
Along with her she took my heart

Rain, won't you tell her that I love her so
Please ask the sun to set her heart aglow
Rain in her heart and let the love we knew start to grow

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain,
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again

Oh listen to the falling rain
Pitter patter pitter patter

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

The Temptations - I Wish it Would Rain
[video=youtube;Z-es4Q8AJaU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-es4Q8AJaU[/video]
Sunshine, blue skies, please go away
A girl has found another and gone away
With her went my future, my life is filled with gloom
So day after day I stay locked up in my room

I know to you, it might sound strange
But I wish it would rain, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

'Cause so badly I wanna go outside (such a lovely day)
But everyone knows that a man ain't supposed to cry
Listen, I gotta cry 'cause crying eases the pain, oh yeah

People this hurt I feel inside
Words could never explain,
I just wish it would rain, oh let it rain, rain, rain, rain, ooo baby
Let it rain, oh yeah, let it rain

Day in day out my tear-stained face
Pressed against the window pane
My eyes search the skies desperately for rain
'Cause rain drops will hide my tear drops
And no one will ever know that I'm crying
Crying when I go outside
To the world outside my tears
I refuse to explain, ooo I wish it would rain, ooh, baby

Let it rain, let it rain
I need rain to disguise the tears in my eyes
Oh, let it rain
Oh yeah, yeah, listen
I'm a man and I got my pride
'Til it rains I'm gonna stay inside, let it rain

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

James Gang - Ashes the Rain and I
[video=youtube;E-s738XHV6Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-s738XHV6Q[/video]
Sometimes I sit and I stare at the rain
Isn't rain filled with sorrow?
Wonder if I'll see my home again
Will it be dry tomorrow?

Time passes softly and I'm a day older
But still I m living days gone by
Ashes to ashes, the rain's turning colder
Finding tomorrow, the ashes, the rain and I

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Rain Dance - The Guess Who
[video=youtube;rRo9NXw6W-g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRo9NXw6W-g[/video]

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Blue Rodeo - "Rain Down On Me"
[video=youtube;y0y8tUVw0Us]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0y8tUVw0Us&list=RDy0y8tUVw0Us[/video]
You never need forgiveness
Left home at seventeen
Raised up on hate
To a life that's second rate
I've seen that look before
Behind some closing door

You couldn't be delivered
Just won't be denied
Too much a child
Confident and wild
Nobody taught you how to live
What to keep and what to give

Oh Now she talks to strangers
Who bring her flowers for her hair
But every night you count on me
To get you out the door
Then you smile
And watch me lose control

You rain on me
Rain down on me
Rain down on me

I used to think I knew
What I was waiting for
I don't think that anymore

I didn't know what to bring you
You don't seem to need too much at all
No pearls or chains
And nobody's sad refrains
Every time I wonder why
I think back to the kindness in your eyes

Now everybody wants you
Bring you flowers for your hair
But every night you count on me
To peel you off the wall
Then you smile
And watch me lose control

Rain on me
Oh Rain down on me
Oh Rain down on me
Yeah
I used to think I knew
What I was fighting for
I don't think that anymore

Magenta · Oct 14, 2016

Rainy Night House by Joni Mitchell (Live)
[video=youtube;cDsqbtIv2tg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDsqbtIv2tg[/video]
It was a rainy night
We took a taxi to your mother's home
She went to Florida and left you
With your father's gun, alone

Upon her small white bed
I fell into a dream
You sat up all the night and watched me
To see, who in the world I might be

I am from the Sunday school
I sing soprano in the upstairs choir
You are a holy man
On the F.M. radio

I sat up all the night and watched thee
To see, who in the world you might be

You called me beautiful
You called your mother-she was very tanned
So you packed your tent and you went
To live out in the Arizona sand

You are a refugee
From a wealthy family
You gave up all the golden factories
Just to see, who in the world you might be
Who in the world

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