Listening to Rain – The Musical!

So of course I wrote a song after last week’s post. Have you met me?

And I will refer you to last week’s post if you didn’t happen to read it for the backstory. You can read it while you listen to the song. Or, you can listen to the audio post and then listen to the song after that. Oh, so many options.

For the guitar nerds: Recorded on a 1969 Gibson J-50 with Blue Magic Music strings (.011-.050), in standard tuning, no capo.

Listening to the thunder rollin’ in
Wonderin’ if it’s raining where you are
The trees stage-whisper their gossip
As the lightning draws ever nearer
Somehow I’ve forgotten how it feels
To be a human animal in this urban place
To feel the wind and the water take hold of me
To make love while it rains

Chorus
Open the door, let the water splash in 
On your fingers and toes, like leaves opening
Remember who and what we’ve always been
Holding silence, listening to the rain

Wave after wave it comes
Like passion ebbs and flows
The lightning reaches to touch her
And the thunder hungrily roars
The creek slips out of its banks
Swelling higher as it takes the valley floor
The rain gentles a moment
Like a lover goes tender to the core

I’ve stayed up half the night
Like you and I used to do
Listening, wondering, laughing
As the storm dances its way through
Somehow I’ve forgotten how it feels
To ride the magic of water and light
Wishing you weren’t so far away
I blow you a long kiss goodnight

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