Cloudburst at Shingle Street Lyrics

Lyric discussion by foreverdrone 

Cover art for Cloudburst at Shingle Street lyrics by Thomas Dolby

clever and heartfelt words, using rain as a metaphor for: emotional accumulation, building up, swelling, and (finally) cathartic outpouring.

the singer's boffin-with-specs image may have helped him attract attention, but at the cost of never quite being taken seriously. a Faustian bargain perhaps. anyhow I feel this song is timeless. (unlike some of Dolby's better-known efforts, which unavoidably feel like artifacts of synth-heavy '80s pop)