Please Don't Stop The Rain

For the second time...James Morrison got me...wow! big time. I was watching one episode of Private Practice and this was playing...what a message! I mean...really, I just can't tell you how much. Here are some of the lyrics...

Please Don't Stop The Rain

I don't know where I crossed the line
Was it something I said or didn't say this time?

And I don't know if its me or you
But I can see the skies are changing
No longer shades of blue
I don't know which way it's gonna go

If it's going to be a rainy day
There's nothing we can do to make it change
We can pray for a sunny weather
But that won't stop the rain

You're feeling like you've got no place to run
I can be your shelter 'till it's done
We can make this last forever
So please don't stop the rain

I thought that time was on our side
I've put in far too many years to let this pass us by

You see life is a crazy thing
There'll be good times and there'll be bad times
And everything in between
And I don't know which way it's gonna go

Oh we're a little closer now
In finding what life is all about
Yeah, I know you just can't stand it
When things don't go your way
But we've got no control over what happens anyway


For me, the first two lines are like things that I often hear from him. He ( you know who you are...) When the silent mode is turned on...wow...he would ask the exact same words!

"If it's going to be a rainy day...There's nothing we can do to make it change. We can pray for a sunny weather. But that won't stop the rain" ------ Rain here would mean problems or challenges and yes we can always pray for a sunny weather when everything is bad...but we have to know...things will get better. It wouldn't go away but yes, things do get better. You'll see and just believe that it does. It really does.

"You see life is a crazy thing.There'll be good times and there'll be bad times.And everything in between

And I don't know which way it's gonna go." ------- Marriage, perfectly defined. I like the line "everything in between", it just makes me smile. I like things in between the bad and the good times. Call me "sucker for pain". It's just that , when you are too happy, it's just not real. It's just not living but with pain, you know that you exist and you are feeling pain. I don't know if you get that. That is why when I am down, I can easily create a line or two and the next thing I know, I have composed a poem. It's easy to create it when sad...I don't know. I guess I am just differently wired. With too much happiness, it seems the fear of it not going to last, is hanging ...But of course, we cannot live like that. That is why when something is good, savor it. Make it last.

'Oh we're a little closer now. In finding what life is all about. Yeah, I know you just can't stand it

When things don't go your way But we've got no control over what happens anyway" ------ I can't stand it when things don't go my way, because it means we are not in control. We need tangible things. Things we can control. But life isn't that way...again, we have to think that things will get better. It will.

You and I...we do not have a song...this could be ours. Let's make it ours.