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City Rain, City Streets Lyrics

Oh, the city rain
It floods the city streets
And in my city bed
Out of my fuckin' head
Is it snowing in space?
God I wish I could talk to you
Is it snowing in space?

And all the city snow
Freezes the Chelsea Hotel
It stones the Chelsea girls
It stones the Chelsea boys
Is it snowing in space?
God I wish I could talk to you
Is it snowing in space?

How does your body feel today?
I forgot to ask
Genius in a hospital bed with brier patch hair
It just isn't fair
Taking bullets for a team of bad poets
How is it up there?
Taking bullets for the team
I really miss you
I really miss you
I really miss you
I really miss you
I fucked you over a million times
I fucked you over a million times
I fucked you over a million times and you died
You died
You died
You really died

I am going to push them way
Fall into the leaves of the winter trees
Drowning slowly, lonely my city rain
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Cover art for City Rain, City Streets lyrics by Ryan Adams

This is a song that makes me think of taking long walks in the rain, which I love. Ah.... That cosy feeling.

Cover art for City Rain, City Streets lyrics by Ryan Adams

Another song about Carrie Hamilton, his one time girlfriend who died of cancer.

"Is it snowing in space?" - hows the weather in heaven...

Cover art for City Rain, City Streets lyrics by Ryan Adams

That part when he says "I f**ked you over a million times and you died" is maybe a little too harsh. Otherwise, a great song.

Cover art for City Rain, City Streets lyrics by Ryan Adams

yeah, i think its pretty obvious its about Carrie, but I also think the most powerful line of the song is the

"I fucked you over a million times and you died."

Just the way he sings it and the words he uses, yes they may be harsh, but it really shows the regret that he feels about how he treated her. This is one ofthe saddest songs I think he sings. So beautiful how its wrapped up in an up-beat melody. Beautiful.

Cover art for City Rain, City Streets lyrics by Ryan Adams

"is it snowing in space?" is a line from the movie groundhog day.

Cover art for City Rain, City Streets lyrics by Ryan Adams

There's alot of snow falling on the Chelsea Hotel on Love Is Hell...a metaphor for coke, is duh pretty obvious, I know. I LOVE that line, "Taking bullets for a team of bad poets"...gets me everytime.

Cover art for City Rain, City Streets lyrics by Ryan Adams

Mygod, everytime i hear the phrase "I fucked you over a million times", it really gets to me. Sounds to me like he can't believe she's gone. Just the part where he sais "I fucked you over a million times, and you died, you really died". Like one moment they're having sex (being a normal couple with no worries), everything's gonna be okay, and the next, she's dead. And he really didn't expect that to happen, like he always thought she was gonna get well...

Cover art for City Rain, City Streets lyrics by Ryan Adams

this songs so pretty

Cover art for City Rain, City Streets lyrics by Ryan Adams

I've always had a hard time figuring out whether he's talking about how he treated her ("I f*cked you over") or talking about how many times the two of them were intimate ("...over a million times"). Pretty certain it's the first scenario.

 
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