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Rain [Take Unknown]

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If the rain comes
They run and hide their heads
They might as well be dead
If the rain comes
If the rain comes

When the sun shines
They slip into the shade
And sip their lemonade
When the sun shines
When the sun shines

Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine

I can show you
That when it starts to rain
Everything's the same
I can show you
I can show you

Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine

Can you hear me
That when it rains and shines
It's just a state of mind
Can you hear me
Can you hear me

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by rojpix

6y ago

Well OK John is quoted in the Beatles Illustrated Lyrics 1969 about Rain saying "On the end of Rain you hear me singing it backwards. We'd done the main thing at EMI and the habit than was to take the song home and see what you thought a little extra gimmick or what the guitar piece would be. So I got home about five in the morning, stoned out of me head, I staggered up to me tape recorder and put it on, but it came out backwards, and I was in a trance in the earphones, what is it what is it. Its too much, you know, and I really wanted the whole song backwards almost, and that was it. I just happened to have the tape in the wrong way round, it just came out backwards, it just blew my mind. The voice sounds like an old Indian. John Rolling Stone

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