Rain Rain Go Away
What this track carries
“Rain Rain Go Away” makes a clear emotional move from “Rain, rain, go away” to “Shhh… what's that sound.” Between those two images sits nature used as an emotional mirror.
The Unspoken
“Rain Rain Go Away” draws meaning from impermanence: clouds, light, water, seasons, and distance keep changing even when emotion wants to hold still. When the lyric says “But when our games get wet and cold,” the song moves beyond mood and into the environment as witness to human feeling rather than background decoration. As the song develops, rain quietly comes to represent renewal, melancholy, or emotion finally allowed to fall. The repeated sense of 'we' widens the thought beyond one narrator and makes it communal. By the time the song reaches “Shhh… what's that sound,” its last image makes impermanence feel less like an ending than a condition of being alive.
Rain Rain Go Away - Lyrics
Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day,
Little Johnny wants to play,
Rain, rain, go away!
Drip-drop, tip-top, splash in the street,
Boots go stomping, skip to the beat!
Clouds above, so grey and wide,
Let the sun come out and slide!
Rain, rain, take a break,
Let us dance by the lake!
Anna’s kite is stuck inside,
She wants to watch it soar and glide!
Rain, rain, go away,
Let us chase the skies so gray!
Rain, rain, don’t you stay,
Come again another day!
Tiny frogs jump in the pond,
Puddle-splash is what they’re fond!
But when our games get wet and cold,
We wish the sun was bright and bold.
Shhh… what’s that sound?
Rain is tapping on the ground!
Pitter-patter, it’s a song
But it’s been here far too long!
Rain, rain, go away,
We’ll see you on another day!
Let the playground call our name,
Time to run and laugh and game!
