DANCE GENTLY TO THE RAIN’S MAD RHYTHM

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