Many years ago, when I decided that I want to be a writer, the below passage was one of the first that I wrote down. It was an unfinished draft, and at the time, I didn’t know what it was for, until blogs came into being, nearly four decades later.
“The rains have never been good to me. They always come at a time when my life is in a mess – death in the family, unrequited love, betrayal of a loved one”
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
Rain is life because it brings water that sustains us, but that’s just one way of looking at it. Some people actually see the rain as tears from heaven falling down to share in our misery. Then they can also serve as messages telling us that if we lost someone dear, it’s largely through our own fault.
Now the only girl I ever loved has gone away
Looking for a brand-new start
Little does she know that when she left that day
Along with her she took my heart.
If rains bring a message, can we listen to it with our ears closed? Probably not, because it’s often more convenient to continue harping about how life is often cruel to us.
Rain, please tell me now does that seem fair
For her to steal my heart when she don’t care
I can’t love another when my heart’s somewhere
Far away
Rains are said to have a rhythm though; they begin and they end. Thus, when the rain begins to pour, you can expect it to subside sooner or later. While waiting for that to happen, we could find ourselves sending out a message, a prayer, a wish that even as someone has left us, we still want him/her to be happy. In the true rhythm of the rain, the pain will ease soon enough to give way to the sunshine that will signal a new beginning.
Rain, won’t you tell her that I love her so
Please ask the sun to set her heart aglow
And rain in her heart and let the love we knew
Start to grow
Do the rains make you sad? Listen to Dan Fogelberg’s rendition of “Rhythm of the Rain” and find out if he feels the same. Please click here:
Originally recorded in late 1962 by The Cascades, “Rhythm of the Rain” ranked third in Billboard’s Hot 100 and landed at number one in the Easy Listening chart. In the UK, the song was at fifth place while capturing the top spot in Ireland.
“Rhythm of the Rain” has since been covered by various artists, including Gary Lewis and the Playboys and Neil Sedaka. The late Dan Fogelberg also had a cover version of the song in 1990 which placed third in Billboard’s Adult Comtemporary chart. Fogelberg succumbed to prostate cancer in 2007, three years after being diagnosed of the disease.
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