Dirty Rain Lyrics

Lyric discussion by delirium04 

Cover art for Dirty Rain lyrics by Ryan Adams

I think someone (a former lover) has died via some violent and the song is describing the songwriter going back to the exact place where the events occurred. If you can read through the lyrics thinking about it that way...that message really comes through. Every verse of the song touches on it sort of a factual manner (gunfire, terror, bullet holes, etc.)

I think the lines between the verses is about his memory of the happy times that relationship brought in general or perhaps, more exclusively, the moment just before this event erupted. The songwriter knows he has to work through the pain (walls caving in) before he can "dance" again with her.

Great song.

My Interpretation