Tim Gales - Songwriter
2001 Country Demos

The Rain Came

Little Ernie Took his Dad's fishin' pole
Headed downtown where the real men go
Cast his line from the corner, just off Main
Trying to catch dinner in the drizzlin' rain

Momma's pickin' pictures from the bedroom floor
Hopin' some of Poppa could be restored
She puts em' high in the closet with her wedding dress
Spends all day complainin¹ about the mess

But then the rain came
And everybody ran
The rain came for higher land
The rain came

Now Grandma's got a couple of visitors
Usin' up her coffee and looking for answers
They're stayin' in the bedroom with a view down hill
Where their trailer once stood in a concrete fill

CHORUS

Now a wise old man once told me "Son,
Everybody feels the pain when God's tears run.
A fearless child doesn't know fear
And a courageous woman keeps things clear"

Everybody saw the sun come out
So they praised the Lord and prayed for a drought
They took a boat to the Red Cross outside town
Yeah, everybody thought it was alright now

But then the rain came
The rain came

©1995 Millspring Music ASCAP

SONG

1. I Do (male vocal)
2. Don't Look Now (female vocal)
3. The Rain Came (male vocal)
4. Something Only He Would Know (female vocal)
5. Like You (male vocal)
6. I Guess It's Goodbye (female vocal)
7. Baby, I Go (female vocal)

Writer's comments:

I once called my mother who lived in Missouri at the time of the heavy rain season. I asked how she was with all the flooding. She told me about how some kids were fishing on Main Street and she was cleaning up. I thought to myself, what survivors. How they can just go on.