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Do You Remember The Rain

from Breaking Cover by Ray Zimmerman

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I wrote this wondering if music still hits home like it used to. It's been a pretty turbulent couple of years around the world generally, maybe we need some songwriters like the ones of old back.

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Where have you been, all this time you've been away,
Have you forgotten how to speak, or just forgotten how to say,
The words you once inscribed with your razor blade pen,
On the green cotton shackles of unfortunate men,

The voice of the rising drops like lead to the ground,
While the fallen ghosts of barbed wire coasts crawl upward to the sound,
Of the lightning sky breaking, like you've seen it before,
As the crimson stain of rebellion's refrain bleeds across the floor,

Do you remember the rain,
The hard, hard rain you said would fall,
The fault lines of the great divide have changed,
Cos it ain't rained round here for days,

We miss you a lot my old faithful guide,
As we swim against the current of the unchangeable tide,
Most of all when darkness falls, no songs are sung of battles won,
No lone horn piper calls outside Jericho's walls,

But sometimes we still hear you sing, you are the avalanche, you are the howling wind,
You are the ashes of the Phoenix' wings, you are Judas amongst Gods and Kings,

Do you remember the rain,
The hard, hard rain you said would fall,
And you'll hide from the storm as your shelter door creaks,
Cos it ain't rained round here for weeks,

Where did you with your travelling show,
Did you visit your father down on desolation row,
Did you tell him in time, that you'd left us all behind,
And the ones that you had left, were failing at your test,

To stand not lie beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Is nothing less than the cold regress into distance memory,
But the times they are still changing with you ever ticking clock,
But senator your hallway doors have now begun to rot,
So come cry your river by the glass or by the case,
And wipe away the shades of grey that are painted on your face,

Do you remember the rain,
The hard hard rain you said would fall,
You better pick up rocks, and sharpen spears,
Cos it ain't rained round here for years,

Do you remember the rain,
The hard hard rain you said would fall,
No-one hears the lonely generals call,
Cos it ain't rained round here at all

credits

from Breaking Cover, released March 19, 2017
Backing vocals by Lucy Sutcliffe

There are a few intentional references to Dylan in "Do You Remember The Rain". Bonus marks for spotting them but if you haven't heard the songs (and albums) below, please go buy them - they're far more important than anything on this album...

The Times They Are A Changing (1964 from the eponymous album)
Mr Tambourine Man (1965 from "Bringing It All Back Home")
Hard Rains Gonna Fall (1963 from "A Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
Desolation Row (1965 from "Highway 61 Revisited")

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