Matthew Rutledge » rain http://mattrut.com It's my website, but you can read it! Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:13:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 It’s raining today, but once there was summer and you http://mattrut.com/2009.09.11/its-raining-today-but-once-there-was-summer-and-you/ http://mattrut.com/2009.09.11/its-raining-today-but-once-there-was-summer-and-you/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:03:08 +0000 Matthew Rutledge http://mattrut.com/?p=1138 It actually is raining today, a serious, soaking rain, the first in probably 5 months.  And there’s always a song to go with these moments — and this one is perhaps one of my absolute favorites of its genre.  This is a classic impressionistic love song , a story in a song, written the way songs always should be, putting the kibosh on variety and its status as the spice of life.  This song can be sung over and over and it never gets old, but you can’t listen to it every day, just on days like this.

It’s raining today
and I’m just about to forget the train window girl
That wonderful day we met
She smiles through the smoke from my cigarette

It’s raining today
But once there was summer and you
And dark little rooms
And sleep in late afternoons
Those moments descend on my windowpane

I’ve hung around here too long
Listenin’ to the old landlady’s hard-luck stories
You out of me me out of you
We go like lovers
To replace the empty space
Repeat our dreams to someone new

It’s raining today
And I watch the cellophane streets
No hang-ups for me
’Cause hang-ups need company
The street corner girl’s a cold trembling leaf
It’s raining today
It’s raining today

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