lyric Poetic Bloomings

  I Love a Rainy Night

 

I love Colorado—blue skies, sunshine

most of the time.

Majestic mountains, serene bluffs

Pines, juniper, pinon, tumble weeds.

But I miss rainy nights.

“I love a rainy night

I love a rainy night

You know it makes me feel good.”

Sitting on a porch

Hearing the powerful thunder

Watching the lightning

Listening to the drumming rain

Running out in it

Letting it wash all over me.

Dancing.

But now in southwest Colorado

when the rain tap, taps on the roof,

it’s like that old joke about the chain saw,

where a man had worked all day

trying to cut trees down

but it just doesn’t work

so he takes it back to the shop.

When the shopkeeper starts it up,

the man asks,

“What’s that noise?”

It’s like that when we first hear rain

in the southwest.

What’s that noise? 

 

I love a rainy night, I love a rainy night…You know it makes me feel good. –Eddie Rabbitt