This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
The black rain is falling
Contaminating the ground
The human race is dying
The dead are scattered around
What is the price of a bullet
Another hole in the head
A flag draped over a coffin
Another soldier is dead
How many victims have fallen
How many more have to die
People dying in masses
Ain't gonna get any by
We've got our marching orders
Defenders of the homeland
Our pride
We've crossed through many borders
In between suicides
War, killing sons and daughters
Another failed attack, there is no turning back
Blood, running down like water
'Cause people gotta wait
Until the judgment comes
Politicians confuse me
I watch the body count rise
Why are the children all marching, Into the desert to die
The human psyche is twisted
The madness rising again
Another aim by a bully
I watch them dying in vain
We've got our marching orders
Defenders of the homeland; our pride
We've crossed through many borders
In between suicides
War, sends our sons to slaughter
Another failed attack, there is no turning back
Blood, running down like water
'Cause people gotta wait
Until the judgment comes
Are you ready?
Black rain, black rain
Black rain, black rain
War, killing sons and daughters
Another failed attack, there is no turning back
Blood, running down like water
'Cause people gotta wait
Until the judgment
You think you got away
Until the judgment comes
Contaminating the ground
The human race is dying
The dead are scattered around
What is the price of a bullet
Another hole in the head
A flag draped over a coffin
Another soldier is dead
How many victims have fallen
How many more have to die
People dying in masses
Ain't gonna get any by
We've got our marching orders
Defenders of the homeland
Our pride
We've crossed through many borders
In between suicides
War, killing sons and daughters
Another failed attack, there is no turning back
Blood, running down like water
'Cause people gotta wait
Until the judgment comes
Politicians confuse me
I watch the body count rise
Why are the children all marching, Into the desert to die
The human psyche is twisted
The madness rising again
Another aim by a bully
I watch them dying in vain
We've got our marching orders
Defenders of the homeland; our pride
We've crossed through many borders
In between suicides
War, sends our sons to slaughter
Another failed attack, there is no turning back
Blood, running down like water
'Cause people gotta wait
Until the judgment comes
Are you ready?
Black rain, black rain
Black rain, black rain
War, killing sons and daughters
Another failed attack, there is no turning back
Blood, running down like water
'Cause people gotta wait
Until the judgment
You think you got away
Until the judgment comes
Lyrics submitted by sens_freak_18
Black Rain Lyrics as written by Kevin Churko John Osbourne
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This song is specifically about the current war in Iraq and is critical about it being a war for oil.
Why are the children all marching, Into the desert to die?
This refers to all the Coalition (and i guess Iraqi) soldiers who are being killed in the deserts of Iraq.
'Black Rain' refers to the oil that is contained in Iraq that the 'children' are dieing for their countries for.
The album cover shows Ozzy standing in front of the burning oil smoke stacks which have then polluted the atmosphere. The oil then rains down and contaminates the earth. There is a scene in the film Jarhead which shows this; you know the one where they're walking in the desert and the oil is raining on them.
So to sum up, this is Ozzy's critique of the war in Iraq killing young men and women for oil.
This song is about war, and the horrors of it
I completely agree. Black Rain is amazing. Album as well as song. As posted several times before, it is about war and the destruction it brings.
A flag draped over a coffin...
Mistake in lyrics.
This songs about the war, but I still like it. It has a very old school sabbath feel to it. This man can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned.
It's an Anti-War message regarding the actions of the US and UK in the Middle East.
yeah all the comments about sum up what this song is about, especially to my family. can't wait for the b.s. to be over
How many victims have fallen? How many more have to die? People dying in masses. Angel of Death standing by
Do you read the lyrics from other sites before hand? yo u should get a conglomerate comparative from several sites before posting here.
The Black rain is falling Contaminating the ground the human race is dying The dead are scattered around.
What is the price of a bullet? Another hole in the head. A flag draped over a coffin. Another soldier is dead.
How many victims have fallen? How many more have to die? People dying in masses. Angel of death standing by
We've got our marching orders, Defenders of the homeland, Our pride. We've crossed through many borders. Military suicides.
War, killing sons and daughters, Another failed attack, there is no turning back. Blood, running down LIKE water. 'You think you've got away, Until the judgment day comes
Politicians confuse me. I watch the body count rise. Why are the children all marching,
Into the desert to die?
The human psyche is twisted, The madness rising again. Another aim by a bully. I watch them dying in vain.
We've got our marching orders, Defenders of the homeland; our pride. We've crossed through many borders. Military suicides.
War, sends our sons to slaughter. Another failed attack, there is no turning back Blood, running down like water You think youv'e got away Until the judgment day comes
Are you ready??
Black rain, black rain. Black rain, black rain.
War, killing sons and daughters. Another failed attack, there is no turning back. Blood, running down like water. 'You think you''e got away Until the judgment day You think you got away, Until the judgment day comes.
the person above me has it right except it should be "we've crossed too many borders, military suicide" sens freak 18 is a fucking retard<br />