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Why Is It Always The Rain

By Paul Marcus

Inspired by a young man’s experience of a painful breakup with his high school girlfriend when he went to college in the Pacific Northwest where there was, well, a LOT of rain. He talked about the pain he was going through trying to get over his first love, and how struck he was by the way his moods shifted when he saw even “one dark cloud”. I also was reminded of my own experience of being pretty devastated when dumped by my high school girlfriend shortly after we got to college. This is my version of “Breaking Up Is So Very Hard To Do”:). Hope it speaks to you.

I wake up when I want to wake up
Then I sit in the sun
Drink my coffee, read the paper
Just as long as I want
My friends tell me that I’m lucky
But they know I’ve got
This one fatal flaw

Yeah all it takes to change my mood
Is the intrusion of one dark cloud
And I get all philosophical
My thoughts travel south
The smell of wet drops on concrete
And I start to see things
As they really are

Heaven sent reminders
Splashing off stones
Are the cries of those like me
This morning
Who woke up alone

Why is it always the rain
Insisting that I remember
Spilling down windows
On a campaign
To make sure I miss you
All over again

Too young but so optimistic
Hell, we were barely seventeen
Wrapped up in each other’s arms
Promising each other everything
Determined

Yet we knew no matter what
The cost might be
More than we could pay
Well I can’t turn back the clocks
And make it all work out just fine

I’m wet and cold
There’s nothing I can do
But just go back inside
Cause it keeps raining
So I guess I’ll be staying
In this blue mood all day

Heaven sent reminders
Splashing off stones
Are the cries of those like me
This morning
Who woke up alone

Why is it always the rain
Insisting that I remember
Spilling down windows
On a campaign
To make sure I miss you
All over again

Appears on

  • Eyes to See
    • I Am Not Trapped
    • Just Begin It
    • Transmissions
    • The Eyes To See
    • Why Is It Always The Rain
    • Hang Gliding
    • Teena
    • What Katy Did
    • When I Love