When you feel let down by the
world’s trechery
When the air is thick with arrant
buffoonery
When fools go where mortals refrain
When atomic wars threaten to draw
the final curtain.
Dance gently to the rain’s mad rhythm,
my friend
Go gently into the rain, don’t
hesitate.
Raiiiin oooo raiiiiinnn oooooo! (2)
When anger is on every face and
begets new anger
And nobody’s stuffy ears are willing
to listen
To an old man playing a guitar and
tambourine
Tossed around on silver seas and
wastelands.
Dance gently to the rain’s mad rhythm,
my friend
Go gently into the rain, don’t
hesitate.
Raiiiin oooo raiiiiinnn oooooo! (2)
We are here to make the night last
long
Don’t fill our nights with the ghost
of hunger
Protest we must if our rights are
trampled on
Guns we must face and be prepared
for confinement.
Dance gently to the rain’s mad rhythm,
my friend
Go gently into the rain, don’t
hesitate.
Raiiiin oooo raiiiiinnn oooooo! (2)
This rain will pass and another
monsoon too
Try not to shield from its fury, it’s
liquid onslaught
Then we will dance on fallow fields
and limpid lakes
What remains of its legacy in its
wake.
Dance gently to the rain’s mad rhythm,
my friend
Go gently into the rain, don’t
hesitate.
Raiiiin oooo raiiiiinnn oooooo! (2)
(c) 2012
