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The Rain Dance

from Rave on Andy White (reissue) by Andy White

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On the Reality Row 12", The Rain Dance (an early version of The Big Rain) was included as an extra track on the original Rave on Andy White CD.

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THE RAIN DANCE

The mothers saw the big rain
the daughters stay out late
while the landord behind closed curtains
fixes his permanent rate
and the howling wind of catastrophe
is looking for some place to go
Juliet looks in Romeo’s eyes
he’s screaming ‘no’

The bankman in the boardroom
with his briefcase and his knife
hands out tickets for the rain dance
to someone he guessed was his wife
and the manuscript of a nondescript
poet who is all the rage
compounds his confusion
with a rose on every page

Why don’t you
join the rain dance

In the nightingale café early morning
they still play the bohemian blues
’cause the sun’s coming up on the couples
and they’ve got nowhere else to move
and when closing time was forgotten
they came and took John away
he was shocked it was so obvious
’cause he still had so much to say

The tower block under the hammer
is now shouting to save itself
the children have got their dance on the streets
he’s got his plans upon a shelf
and at last when the streetlamps
glowed and gathered in the rain
the marchers lit them for free and shouted
‘let’s start again’

Why don’t you
join the rain dance

At the beach party they’re all tied up
Brando never was a contender
the cameras zoomed out
a long time ago
a saxophone a surrender
and as a madman shakes his geranium
the social scene turns reckless
like a photograph of a distant horizon
and an Art Factory necklace

In the national demonstration
they hooked themselves to a beat
the transmission should be over
the Lady of Shallott’s off the street
and the stars hysterically scattered
are all gathered up in the pool
can’t you recall the darkest hour
when the six of wands
faced the Fool …

Why don’t you
join the rain dance


Where fact walks a tightrope
and fiction seems less assured
it’s not too late to join the rain dance
haven’t you heard
I’ll give you no answers to your questions
you wrote me when we were apart
I can give you fragments
from our conversations
straight from the heart

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from Rave on Andy White (reissue), released October 15, 2018

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