The rain it raineth on the just ...

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  1. Texanne

    Texanne 5,000+ Posts

    And also on the unjust fella,
    But chiefly on the just, because
    The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

    Ogden Nash

    Happy rainy day to you all! I just wish I didn't have to go out in it right now.
     
  2. OldHippie

    OldHippie 2,500+ Posts

    The quality of mercy is not strained,
    It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
    Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
    It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

    Shakespeare
     
  3. GemStateJim

    GemStateJim 2,500+ Posts

    The rain to the wind said,
    "You push and I'll pelt."
    They so smote the garden bed
    That the flowers actually knelt,
    And lay lodged--though not dead.
    I know how the flowers felt.



    Robert Frost, "Lodged"
     
  4. accuratehorn

    accuratehorn 10,000+ Posts

    I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
    I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
    Where the people are a many and their hands are all empty
    Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
    Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
    Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
    Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
    Where black is the color, where none is the number
    And I'll tell and think it and speak it and breathe it
    And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
    Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
    But I'll know my songs well before I start singin'
    And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
    It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

    Bob f'n Dylan
     
  5. slughead42

    slughead42 Guest

    It's hard to listen to a hard hard heart
    Beating close to mine
    Pounding up against the stone and steel
    Walls that I won't climb
    Sometimes a hurt is so deep deep deep
    You think that you're gonna drown
    Sometimes all I can do is weep weep weep
    With all this rain falling down

    Strange how hard it rains now
    Rows and rows of big dark clouds
    When I'm holding on underneath this shroud
    Rain

    Patty Griffin, "Rain"
     
  6. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    Silver rain was falling down
    Upon the dirty ground of London town

    Paul McCartney & Wings
    London Town
    1978


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  7. RomaVicta

    RomaVicta 5,000+ Posts

    Into this house we're born
    Into this world we're thrown
    Like a dog without a bone
    Or an actor out alone
    Riders on the storm
     
  8. IRC

    IRC 1,000+ Posts

    I'm only happy when it rains - Garbage

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  9. HornsForever'93

    HornsForever'93 1,000+ Posts

    Raindrops are falling on my head,
    -----Eh, yall know the rest
     
  10. accuratehorn

    accuratehorn 10,000+ Posts

    I'm tired of this mother f'n rain on these mother f'n plains.

    Samuel Jackson
     
  11. YoLaDu

    YoLaDu Guest

    I gave my love a good night kissI tried to take a late night piss
    But the toilet moved so again i missed
    Down rain
    street.

    The Pogues - Rain Street
     
  12. LITNIN HORN

    LITNIN HORN 1,000+ Posts

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    Well the extended outlook for an indefinite period of time
    Until you come back to me baby
    Is high tonight, low tomorrow, and precipitation is expected

    -Tom Waits












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  13. OldHippie

    OldHippie 2,500+ Posts

    I hear the drizzle of the rain.
    Like a memory it falls.
    Soft and warm, continuing.
    Tapping on my roof and walls.

    Simon and Garfunkel
     
  14. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    I'll never let you see
    The way my broken heart is hurtin' me
    I've got my pride and I know how to hide
    All my sorrow and pain
    I'll do my crying in the rain.

    The Everly Bros
     
  15. Third Coast

    Third Coast 10,000+ Posts

  16. overmaars

    overmaars 1,000+ Posts

    Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
    On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me
    Remembering again that I shall die.

    -Edward Thomas
     
  17. LonghornGirlie

    LonghornGirlie 500+ Posts

    The rain let up here about 11:15. Unfortunately, the creek crested about 30-40 minutes later. Literally about an inch or two from jumping the bank directly behind the house. Since then, it has dropped about a foot to a foot and a half. I think only that much because upstream Shoal Creek was still getting pounded.

    As of 1:15, the creek was down 4-5 feet.
     
  18. Texanne

    Texanne 5,000+ Posts

    God gives us months and months of drought, then tries to make up for it all at once.

    Yeah, God, great planning ...
     
  19. 14tokihorn

    14tokihorn 1,000+ Posts

    G` on Hermine.... git, git, git-on now.

    Just chatted with an APD officer. 2222 at Bull Creek washed out last night. And a missing body, this morning, as someone tried to cross the water (but they found the Lexus)... something about a Fire/Rescue boat having big problems after they ported it thru Lake Austin...but I didn't catch all of that.

    Looks like round 2 is coming pretty quick now.
     
  20. elface

    elface 250+ Posts

    Well it's cloudy in the morning gonna be raining in the afternoon
    Cloudy in the morning and it's gonna be raining in the afternoon
    If you don't like this rainy weather you better pack your bags and move
    But if you're running from it brother the only road that I can see
    If you're running from it brother the only road that I can see
    Is the road that leads to nowhere and nowhere is a fool like me
    Rain keep a falling falling round my window pane
    Rain keep a falling falling round my window pane
    Ain't never seen so much rainy weather guess I'll never see the sun again

    Save those dimes and nickels save 'em for a rainy day
    Save your dimes and nickels save 'em for a rainy day
    It ain't gonna keep the rain from coming but at least you know you've paid your way
    Rain rain rain keep a falling

    Willie Nelson
     
  21. wherzwaldo

    wherzwaldo 1,000+ Posts

    The sun broke through a few minutes ago down here in Hyde Park. Looks like we might get some more rain this afternoon though.

    Gray skies are gonna clear up
    Put on a happy face...
     
  22. Third Coast

    Third Coast 10,000+ Posts

    These tell the tale.

    Photos
     
  23. Bevo Incognito

    Bevo Incognito 5,000+ Posts

    I've walked the hills when rain was falling
    Rested by a wide oak tree
    Heard a lark sing high at evening
    Caught a moonbeam on the sea

    Chorus:
    Softly blow ye winds of morning
    Sing ye winds your mournful sound
    Blow ye from the earth's four corners
    Guide this traveller where he's bound

    I've helped a ploughman tend his horses
    Heard a rippling river sing
    Talked to stars when night was falling
    Seen a primrose welcome spring

    Chorus

    By foreign shores, my feet have wandered
    Heard a stranger call me friend
    Every time my mind was troubled
    Found a smile around the bend

    Chorus

    There's a ship stands in the harbour
    All prepared to cross the foam
    Far off hills were fair and friendly
    Still there's fairer hills at home
     
  24. Bevo Incognito

    Bevo Incognito 5,000+ Posts

    If the rain comes they run and hide their heads
    They might as well be dead
    If the rain comes, if the rain comes

    When the sun shines they slip into the shade
    (When the sun shines down)
    And drink their lemonade
    (When the sun shines down)
    When the sun shines, when the sun shines

    Rain, I don't mind
    Shine, the weather's fine

    I can show you that when it starts to rain
    (When the rain comes down)
    Everything's the same
    (When the rain comes down)
    I can show you, I can show you

    Rain, I don't mind
    Shine, the weather's fine

    Can you hear me, that when it rains and shines
    (When it rains and shines)
    It's just a state of mind?
    (When it rains and shines)
    Can you hear me, can you hear me?

    Sdaeh rieht edih dna nur yeht semoc niar eht fI
    (Rain)
    (Rain)
     
  25. Bevo Incognito

    Bevo Incognito 5,000+ Posts

    I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you
    Come rain or come shine
    High as a mountain and deep as a river
    Come rain or come shine


    I guess when you met me, it was just one of those things
    But don't you ever bet me, 'cause I'm gonna be true if you let me

    You're gonna love me like nobody's loved me
    Come rain or come shine
    We'll be happy together, unhappy together
    Now won't that be just fine?

    The days may be cloudy or sunny
    We're in or we're out of the money
    But I'm with you always
    I'm with you rain or shine
     
  26. accuratehorn

    accuratehorn 10,000+ Posts

    I never meant to cause you any sorrow
    I never meant to cause you any pain
    I only wanted one time to see you laughing
    I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain

    Prince
     
  27. Texanne

    Texanne 5,000+ Posts

    I been washed by the rain, driven by the snow,
    Drunk and dirty, but don't you know that I'm still
    Willing ..
     
  28. accuratehorn

    accuratehorn 10,000+ Posts

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