Only love
Can make it rain
The way the beach is kissed by the sea
Only love
Can make it rain
Like the sweat of lovers
Laying in the fields

Love reign o'er me
Love reign o'er me, rain on me, rain on me

Only love
Can bring the rain
That makes you yearn to the sky
Only love
Can bring the rain
That falls like tears from on high

Love reign o'er me, rain on me, rain on me
Love reign o'er me, rain on me, rain on me

On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool, cool rain
I can't sleep and I lay and I think
The night is hot and black as ink
Oh God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain

Love reign o'er me, rain over me, over me, over me, oh
Love reign o'er me, whoa, on me

Love


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    Jimmy has taken a boat out to the rock and climbed up, only for the boat to float away. The wind is strong, there is thunder in the distance and it has started to rain. Jimmy is convinced he is going to die and begins to focus on what is going on around him. He realises that every drop of rain is going into the ocean and becoming part of it. He finally understands that he is like the ocean and his four personalities are drops of water. He has to accept that he can't be a tough guy, a romantic, a bloody lunatic or a hypocritical beggar in isolation; he is and always will be all four. He must learn to love and embrace this, and Townshend has said that ultimately the hypocrite becomes the dominant personality because of this acceptance of the four incompatible aspects of Jimmy.

    Regos the Saneon June 15, 2006   Link

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