I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Hi, hi we're your weather girls
Ah-huh
And have we got news for you
You better listen
Get ready, all you lonely girls
And leave those umbrellas at home
Alright
Humidity is rising (uh rising), barometer's getting low (how low girl?)
According to all sources (what sources now?), the street's the place to go (we better hurry up)
'Cause tonight for the first time (first time)
Just about half-past ten (half past ten)
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men (start raining men)
It's raining men, hallelujah, it's raining men, amen
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet
It's raining men, hallelujah
It's raining men, every specimen
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean
God bless mother nature, she's a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel, she rearranged the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
Oh, it's raining men, yeah
Humidity is rising (humidity is rising, yeah yeah)
Barometer's getting low (it's getting low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low)
According to all sources (according to all sources)
The street's the place to go
'Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining man (start raining men)
It's raining men, hallelujah
It's raining men, amen
It's raining men, hallelujah
It's raining men, amen
It's raining men, hallelujah
It's raining men, amen
It's raining men, hallelujah
Oh oh oh oh
It's raining men
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean
Hallelujah it's raining men, amen
Ah-huh
And have we got news for you
You better listen
Get ready, all you lonely girls
And leave those umbrellas at home
Alright
Humidity is rising (uh rising), barometer's getting low (how low girl?)
According to all sources (what sources now?), the street's the place to go (we better hurry up)
'Cause tonight for the first time (first time)
Just about half-past ten (half past ten)
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men (start raining men)
It's raining men, hallelujah, it's raining men, amen
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet
It's raining men, hallelujah
It's raining men, every specimen
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean
God bless mother nature, she's a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel, she rearranged the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
Oh, it's raining men, yeah
Humidity is rising (humidity is rising, yeah yeah)
Barometer's getting low (it's getting low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low)
According to all sources (according to all sources)
The street's the place to go
'Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining man (start raining men)
It's raining men, hallelujah
It's raining men, amen
It's raining men, hallelujah
It's raining men, amen
It's raining men, hallelujah
It's raining men, amen
It's raining men, hallelujah
Oh oh oh oh
It's raining men
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean
Hallelujah it's raining men, amen
Lyrics submitted by peacewarrior21
It's Raining Men Lyrics as written by Paul Jabara Paul Shaffer
Lyrics © TuneCore Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Shemaroo Entertainment Limited, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I have a friend who is a gay man and this song I dedicate to him.
It is my wish for him! I do hope they are 18 years of age + and I hope they are descending upon him in droves! I hope he doesn't know WHAT to do with all of the male attention he deserves.
You go, girlfriend!
In our lives a little rain must fall and I sincerely hope that in yours.... IT'S RAINING MEN! XOXOXO
It sounds like this song needs to be coming out of a gerbil with an umbrella. On said pink ubrella, there needs to be blue water droplets with "men" written thusly on them.
They made one and i have one XD
It makes me feel like less of a man for liking this song, but hell, this song KICKS ASS.
i'ma guy, but i love this song mainly because of the singer's vocals! they kick some ass men! what voices those women have!!! god!!!
It's not raining men in my life and lord knows I woudn't want it to be, but this IS a great tune. It's so much fun! The women could belt out a tune like no skinny girl ever could:) I bet it took some real men to handle the Weather Girls! I think of Janis Joplina and Mama Cass when I hear these 'girls" sing. They put their heart, soul, and big lungs into their music!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. G.H.'s version has 14 comments and this only 4!!!! Disgusting! Except for "Shake Your Bootie Cutie" I can't tolerate the woman's "talent." And I like that song only because it has personal meaning for me...at the time I first heard it I really wanted a skinny arsed booty to shake for me:) The Weather Girls could belt out tunes and this one was exceptional! Just the fact that they are called The Weather Girls and their hit was "It's Raining Men" is, in itself, perfection! This is simply a fun song that we college girls loved to hear when we were on the dance floor being bombarded with dance propositions by guys. We felt so empowered by the song that ironically we would dance with each other and ignore the guys:) THIS is the song I was listening to when Mr. powder blue polyester suit with shoe lifts and slicked back hair asked me to dance; I was 19 and he was probably 23 and from a Muslim country. It's the first time I ever said NO to a guy (to dance:); for once the polyesther allowed me to manage my guilt for being mean. (Hmmmmm...I wonder why I still remember it, though:)