The inspiration for the song was what she saw when she performed at Woodstock: it rained, and afterward people lit candles. The imagery is vivid throughout--and I can certainly understand how the images of sharing blood and catching the same disease would, these days, make one think of AIDS, though given the song's time and the context, I think the "disease" is the desire or the motivation to work for peace.
I can't think of this song without the spoken intro that was the B-side of the single; the FM stations I listened to at the time never played the song by itself.
"Little sisters of the sun
Lit candles in the rain
Fed the world on oats and raisins
Candles in the rain
Lit the fire to the soul
That never knew its friend
To be there is to remember
Candles in the rain
So lay it down, lay it down,
Lay it down again
Meher Baba lives again
Candles in the rain
Men can live as brothers
Candles in the rain"
The inspiration for the song was what she saw when she performed at Woodstock: it rained, and afterward people lit candles. The imagery is vivid throughout--and I can certainly understand how the images of sharing blood and catching the same disease would, these days, make one think of AIDS, though given the song's time and the context, I think the "disease" is the desire or the motivation to work for peace.
I can't think of this song without the spoken intro that was the B-side of the single; the FM stations I listened to at the time never played the song by itself.
"Little sisters of the sun Lit candles in the rain Fed the world on oats and raisins Candles in the rain Lit the fire to the soul That never knew its friend To be there is to remember Candles in the rain So lay it down, lay it down, Lay it down again Meher Baba lives again Candles in the rain Men can live as brothers Candles in the rain"