(Wish I Could) Hideaway

It could also be that the protagonist has a friend who has been drafted for war, and has all but given up on life. Whether it is or not, it is a good song to listen to when dealing with the loss of someone.

It kind of sounds like a friend who is fed up with himself and the world around him, and is contemplating death.

Or one of his friends is on the verge of death: "I Can hear the leavin train" and he's trying to do his best to cope with that fact by asking a higher being if he could hideaway from this reality.

I wonder if it is deeper. If someone commited suicide, or someone in the act of. When people give up all their possessions, it CAN be a sign of depression, and thoughts of suicide by that person. Just something that popped into my head. The missing lyrics after "I can hear the leaving train" are ---All aboard! Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye! Oooh, I wish you well. See you soon, maybe tomorrow. You never can tell;----

I came across this one during the time I went through my arguments with my brother, so I totally get what John is saying. Also it's the second time he's using rain as a metaphor for the way the band is going through their breakup; after Have you ever seen the rain.

I wonder if, instead of a "friend" in the strictest sense of the word, could he have instead been directing this at or toward his brother, who was most likely contemplating leaving the band around this time.

John Fogerty has written this song for his brother Tom who was leaving the band at this time and here he is regretting that Tom is leaving. The strange thing is just the fact that on the Pendulum album is a second song, "Chameleon", where John speaks quite though about his brother