Summer Rain

Well, I'm still not sleeping and really not sure what I can do about it at this time.

I did get to thinking at some part last night how it's been a long, long time since we've had a decent downpour (or any rain of note) in what is really a summer rainfall zone, so it could be that I'm just longing for that once again.

"Summer Rain" by Belinda Carlisle was one of those romantic tracks that seemed to instantly hit gold in the late 80's & 90's - a time when cheese ruled. I must confess I do have a soft spot for cheese and this is a winner.

Much like "Handful of Rain" by Savatage, there are snippets of this that seem to hold so true to my reliance on Summer Rain to just keep my sane (if at all possible). The lines, "Doesn't matter what I do now / Doesn't matter what I say / Somewhere in my heart I'm always / Dancing with you in the summer rain" - there is that part of me that always simply loves the summer rain, as Hillary Duff would say, "I'm coming clean".

Whispering our goodbyes
Waiting for a train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain
I can hear him saying
Nothing will change
Come dancing with me baby
In the summer rain

I remember the rain on our skin
And his kisses hotter than the
Santa Ana winds
Whispering our goodbyes
Waiting for a train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain

I remember laughing til we almost cried
(There at station that night)
I remember looking in his eyes

Oh my love, it's you and that I dream of
Oh my love, since that day
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

Doesn't matter what I do now
Doesn't matter what I say
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

I can hear the whistle
Military train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain
I can here him singing
Ooh "Love Is Strange"
Come dance with me baby
In the summer rain

I remember the rain pouring down
And we poured our hearts out
As the train pulled out
I can see my baby
Waving from the train
It was last time that I saw him
In the summer rain

Every time I see the lightening
Every time I hear the thunder
Every time I close the window
When this happens in the summer
Oh the night is so inviting
I can feel that you are so close
I can feel you when the wind blows
Blows right through my heart

Every night and every day now
Though I know you've gone away
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

Perhaps all I'm waiting on is just a little more summer rain. It does after all soothe the soul. Maybe it will finally offer the rest that's so desperately wanted.