Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
Maybe I'm changing
Maybe I'm so impatient
Maybe I just don't care, about what you think
cause I can never please her
No matter how hard I try
You know sometimes I just wanna throw up my hands and say
"ok fine"!
But life's to short she said
If it works then it works, let it go
And I'm sorry I ever got you started
When it rains, it pours and it shows
I was blessed with a birth and a death
And a gift or a curse somewhere in between
Cause your only as loud as the noises you make
And as big as the things that you dream
still I can never please him
No matter how hard I try
And maybe you should have made up your mind
Before I changed mine
but life's to short she said,
If it works then it works, let it go
And I'm sorry I ever got you started
When it rains it pours and it shows
still life's to short she said
If it works, then it works, just let it go, let it go
Well I'm sorry I ever got you started
When it rains it pours and it shows
Maybe I'm so impatient
Maybe I just don't care, about what you think
cause I can never please her
No matter how hard I try
You know sometimes I just wanna throw up my hands and say
"ok fine"!
But life's to short she said
If it works then it works, let it go
And I'm sorry I ever got you started
When it rains, it pours and it shows
I was blessed with a birth and a death
And a gift or a curse somewhere in between
Cause your only as loud as the noises you make
And as big as the things that you dream
still I can never please him
No matter how hard I try
And maybe you should have made up your mind
Before I changed mine
but life's to short she said,
If it works then it works, let it go
And I'm sorry I ever got you started
When it rains it pours and it shows
still life's to short she said
If it works, then it works, just let it go, let it go
Well I'm sorry I ever got you started
When it rains it pours and it shows
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When It Rains Lyrics as written by Tristan Prettyman
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