A LIFE FULL OF RAIN

A life full of rain coming down on my shoulders
A life full of rain here in a room where no one cares
I'm not wanted here, I got no place to go
I've found all is empty in a life full of rain

Your sky is never clear and you can hear that thunder
You know that means trouble, the kind of trouble that won't disappear
So you ask for forgiveness, you know there's none coming
Life full of rain and the forecast is severe

The gravel roads that lie stretched out before you
They are the roads that you've gone down before
Goddamn it, you didn't ask, you didn't ask to come here
So you curse your own mother for the day that you were born

It's all been a trick, a little sleight of hand
Like the clowns in the circus who tells a story but no one understands
So you disappear into the solitude, you go into the shadows
Of a life full of rain with no dry spot to stand

There's a blue-eyed world that said it once loved you
But that was in your youth, such a long, long time ago
As the days went by with your pride walking beside you
Pride you could not swallow and refused to let go

So here you are stuck in a world of your own ego
World where there's no rumors of other lost souls
Who've turned into ghosts and float sadly through the evening
And you thought you were exempt from a life full of rain
A life full of rain that's coming down on your shoulders

NOTES

A Life Full Of Rain est une chanson composée par John Mellencamp, sortie sur son album Strictly A One-Eyed Jack (2022).