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Led Zeppelin – Fool in the Rain Lyrics 19 years ago
Great song. It is difficult to figure out all of the lyrics. Here they are in total.

Oh baby

Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shinin'
Like a star that can't wait for a night
I hate to think I been blinded, baby
Why can't I see you tonight?
And the warmth of your smile starts a burnin'
And the thrill of your touch give me fright
And I'm shaking so much, really yearnin'
Why don't you show up and make it alright
Yeah, it's alright-ri(ght)

And if you promised your love so completely
And you said you would always be true
You swore that you never would leave me, baby
Whatever happened to you?
And you thought it was only in movies
As you wished all your dreams would come true, hey
It ain't the first time believe me baby
I'm standin' here feeling blue, blue
Hah, babe I’m blue

Oh babe

Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I watch the people go shuffling downtown
‘nother ten minutes no longer
And then I'm turnin' around, 'round
And the clock on the wall’s movin' slower
Oh my heart it sinks to the ground
And the storm that I thought would blow over
Clouds the light of the love that I found, found
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found
Oh, that I found

Hey babe

Ew_ew_ew
Hands on the clock
Well they just don't seem to stop
When I'm thinking it over

??
Wheww_, tired of the light
‘Cause I just don't seem to find
Gotta get away, get away
??

Whoah-ew-ew
I see ya in my dreams
But I just don't seem to be with you
I gotta get on, gotta get on, gotta get on
I've got to get on

(awesome drums)

Ew now my body is starting to quiver
And the palms of my hands getting wet, oh
I got no reason to doubt you baby
It's all a terrible mess
And I'll run in the rain 'til I'm breathless
When I'm breathless I'll run 'til I drop, hey
And the thoughts of a fool's kind of careless
I'm just a fool waitin' on the wrong block, aw yeah
Hey now
Awwww, awww, ho, ho
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I…
Light of the love that I found
Light of the hey n(ow), light of the hey n(ow)
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found

I just cannot figure out the one verse in the middle.

As for the meaning, I think the gist of it is pretty clear, although the precise emotional state of the guy can't possibly be nailed down.

Obviously he is enfatuated with this woman and wants to be with her.

"I hate to think I've been blinded". This tells the listener right away that the guy has a feeling his good sense has been blinded by his love for her.

"Why can't I see you tonight". Obviously he is calling on the girl and she is putting him off.

"I'm shaking so much really yearning". This guy is probably borderline obsessive about this girl.

"And if you promised your love so completely
And you said you would always be true
You swore that you never would leave me, baby
Whatever happened to you?"
She has obviously either broken up with him or started to become distant, thus spurring his questioning of her devotion.

"Another ten minutes no longer
And then I'm turnin' around" Apparently he asked her to meet him, or maybe he is even waiting for her outside her apartment. And obviously she isn't showing up.

"And the STORM that I thought would blow over
CLOUDS the light of the love that I found"
This is the key line in the song for all of you wondering if the rain and standing on the wrong block are all metaphors. Yes the rain is certainly metaphorical when taken into consideration with the "storm" and "clouds" lines. And this same line also solidifies the fact that she either broke up with him or has drifted away. He hoped this separation would just "blow over" and they would be together again.

"Hands on the clock
Well they just don't seem to stop
When I'm thinking it over"
This shows that the guy is thinking about her always, round the clock. Again he sounds pretty obsessed with her.

"I see ya in my dreams
But I just don't seem to be with you
I gotta get on..."
Again he has a fleeting moment of reality when he just can't see himself with her. And he realizes he's gotta move on ("gotta get on")

"When I'm breathless I'll run 'til I drop". Again reinforces he is obsessed with her. He will do anything just to be with her.

"And the thoughts of a fool's kind of careless
I'm just a fool waitin' on the wrong block"
I think this line throws everyone off of the trail of all the things I explained above. It would cheapen the song in my opinion to think the whole thing revolves around the simple fact that the guy is mistakenly waiting at the wrong rendezvous spot for the girl. I believe that once again he has switched his thoughts back to the possibiolity that she still loves him, so he tries to reason that maybe he is just mistakenly waiting on the wrong block. So the guy is in the song is thinking he is physically on the wrong block. And the writer of the song is saying he is metaphorically on the wrong block, meaning this girl is not for him, nor does she love him.

"Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found"
Finally he repeats over and over part the same line as before "(And the storm that I thought would blow over clouds the) light of the love that I found". I picture this guy as totally distraught over this girl, continually going back and forth in his mind with "she loves me, she loves me not".

What guy (or girl for that matter) can't relate to this song?

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Song of the bird way up in the sky

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Paul Westerberg – Best Thing That Never Happened Lyrics 19 years ago
You weren't the first one
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Paul Westerberg – It's a Wonderful Lie Lyrics 19 years ago
Take an amphetamine
and a crushed RIGHT brain...

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Paul Westerberg – Fugitive Kind Lyrics 19 years ago
Each time:
You can run a, run a, run a, run away with me
But never from your fate
You can run a, run a, run a, run away FROM me
But never from your fate

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Paul Westerberg – Dice Behind Your Shades Lyrics 19 years ago
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Paul Westerberg – Dyslexic Heart Lyrics 19 years ago
Slip me a napkin and now that's a start...

Between the covers I judge you ain't ready...

Do I read you correctly, you need me directly...

Do I date you? Do I hate you?

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Paul Westerberg – Seein' Her Lyrics 19 years ago
Inbetween I'm seeing her,
Headlight Beams, I'm seein her...

He doesn't want you to share it,
He wants to play Romeo and Juliet, I'm playin Peter Pan...

I want you to be true and swear it...

Pretty soon, I'm seein her...

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The Replacements – Waitress In The Sky Lyrics 19 years ago
"Always on stride" is the correct line.

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The Replacements – Achin' To Be Lyrics 19 years ago
5th verse is actually "Poems come so slowly
Like the colors down her cheek" (meaning her tears are running her mascara/makeup down her cheek)

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