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Hold Back the Rain Lyrics
We're miles away from nowhere
And the wind doesn't have a name
So call it what you want to call it
Still blows down the lane
People tell me, I haven't changed at all
But I don't feel the same
And I bet you've had that feeling too
You just can't laugh all the time
And if the fires burn out, there's only fire to blame
No time for worry cause we're on the roam again
The clouds all scatter and we ride the outside lane
Not on your own so help me please hold back the rain
So what if the words ain't rhyming
Did you think that it's just a game
I probably didn't even say that right
And I really don't give a damn
Okay, go off and wander
I'm guilty just the same
Sometimes you're needed badly
So please come back again
And if the fires burn out, there's only fire to blame
No time for worry cause we're on the roam again
The clouds all scatter and we ride the outside lane
Not on your own so help me please hold back the rain.
And the wind doesn't have a name
So call it what you want to call it
Still blows down the lane
But I don't feel the same
And I bet you've had that feeling too
You just can't laugh all the time
No time for worry cause we're on the roam again
The clouds all scatter and we ride the outside lane
Not on your own so help me please hold back the rain
Did you think that it's just a game
I probably didn't even say that right
And I really don't give a damn
I'm guilty just the same
Sometimes you're needed badly
So please come back again
No time for worry cause we're on the roam again
The clouds all scatter and we ride the outside lane
Not on your own so help me please hold back the rain.
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The original is much better than the crappy remixes that you get on all recordings today. If you can find the original that's the best. It has guitar playing not heard on the remixes. And one of the remixes cuts the song in half.
You know it's the original if has a muddy guitar chord hit after the first chorus at 1:32..
Wciąż lubię tę piosenkę i powracam do niej mimo, że upłynęło już tyle lat.
This song was written by Simon in a hotel because of John's drug, alcohol, and sex addictions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_KihD_k55M got to 21:37 if you don't believe me.
Come on! This is not hair, they were fashionable good looking, but also great musicians and ironic and cultivated lyricist...
Total new romantic scene sound and these lyrics! Who can hold back the rain with this tune! From one of the best 80s albums, Rio.
I heard that Simon wrote this song for John and that it's about drug addiction. I'm dead serious. I know everyone always says a song's about drug addiction if they can't understand it but this is what I read somewhere.
Canada, I read the same thing (about Simon writing this to John regarding his addictions). Some lines really bring it home to me, like the second and (especially) last verses. Heard the same thing about Vertigo, btw.
IMO i think the night versions remix is better than the original. Can see the references to addictions, but it can also be interpreted in different ways
This was on a Behind the Music special-Simon wrote it for John. He slipped it under Johns hotel room door after he had wrote it.
i love this song!!!