According to Vienna, she wrote this song when she had writers block. So she wrote about how farmers might feel in the dry season when the rain won't come as a metaphor for how she felt.
But as usual with her songs, there are still many interpretations that work, independant of what she (probably) had in mind as she wrote it...
For me personally it's about finding yourself in a place in your life where you don't know where you're gonna go (either literally or in terms of a relationship), but there's still the inexplicable hope lingering in the back of your head.
According to Vienna, she wrote this song when she had writers block. So she wrote about how farmers might feel in the dry season when the rain won't come as a metaphor for how she felt. But as usual with her songs, there are still many interpretations that work, independant of what she (probably) had in mind as she wrote it... For me personally it's about finding yourself in a place in your life where you don't know where you're gonna go (either literally or in terms of a relationship), but there's still the inexplicable hope lingering in the back of your head.