Rain (2000 Remaster)

Billy said this town is dying

It's dying just to be like me

He was fighting everything in sight

Died when he was twenty-three

I used to meet him down at his cafe

He had one eye on the door

And the other on the writing on the wall

He'd get restless and angry and we'd all laugh

'Cause we weren't really scared

We were his friends

He wouldn't hurt us at all

And all he'd say was

Rain rain rain rain rain rain

Rain rain rain rain rain rain

We gotta leave this town

And Glover was a dancer imitating Eddie Cochran

By the jukebox in the corner of the room

'Til he was lost Barry and me we used to escape

Playing 'I Go Ape' wearing Italian clothes

Drinking cider talking in the rain hey babe

Come over here

Let me buy you a beer what's your name

She said "Boy it doesn't really matter

Don't you see

You ain't what I want you ain't what I need"

"You ain't what I fancy you ain't what I dream of"

you're ugly

Rain rain rain rain rain rain

Rain rain rain rain rain rain

I gotta leave this place

My history is a cop-out

Somewhere in the dark I got scared

'Cause I knew I was gonna lose

You know that feeling you get in your guts

All that frustration when you know you're going nuts

You gotta make a move

There was Billy and Glover and Pacer

And Taylor and Valerie and Barry

I remember what he said about that town

He said "I went to London once came back

Wiped the tears from my eyes looked out the window

And it was still pouring down"

More of that

Rain rain rain rain rain rain

Rain rain rain rain rain rain

I'm gonna get a train

Never coming back again

'Cause if I did it would be the same

Boy you really messed up my brain

All of that

Rain rain rain rain rain rain

Rain rain rain rain rain rain

Take your washing off the line

Take your washing off the line

Take your washing off the line

Take the washing off the line

It's gonna rain it's gonna rain