Reconnecting with Rain

So I have had an obsession with the Weepies for a few years, but I am rediscovering them, in a new more blissful state. This song has been playing on repeat for me today. My life is sort of defined by the music I am residing with in the moment. I have a life soundtrack; sometimes I stop in the middle of crucial moments to listen to a song, read a lyric, post a blog. So today my song is Jolene by the Weepies, although really the entire "Happiness" cd (or playlist as new, young whipper-snappers may call it) has been shuffling through my life recently.

What is funny, this song could be another sort of melancholy tune about a broken heart or lost relationship, but that is not how I am thinking about it at all. Instead, for me, right now, it is a tune more about longing to know what "the weather" is like where someone you miss and love is when they are not with you. So of course, rain has connotations of sadness, but I love rain. I always have. I always used to say Spring was my favorite season because of the rain (however, it doesn't really rain in Colorado in springtime, so I switched favorite season to Fall.) I am thinking of returning to a place where I love Spring again, where my heart is open to reconnecting with the presence of rain, with the promise of something new. Although, it is true that sometimes the sun is beautiful and bright there is something very peaceful about the quiet and steady presence of rain. So this is my dedication to a new sort of weather in my life.

Jolene, The Weepies

It always rained around you
We tried to go inside and it would rain there too
It came pouring through the roof when we traveled underground
Whiskey, water, and tears 'til I thought that we would drown, Jolene

Jolene, Jolene
Is it still raining everywhere you are?

We didn't hide from it at all
No we just let it fall
In the morning she was gone and everything was dry
The city streets were crowded and I felt like I would die, Jolene

Jolene, Jolene
Is it still raining everywhere you are?

Now there's sunshine and flowers everywhere
And I don't care

All of these clouds will disappear
Like we were never here
But I swear there was a time I thought that it would never stop
And now I only think about you if it's raining or it's not, Jolene

Jolene, Jolene
Is it still raining everywhere you are?
Is it still raining everywhere you are?
Jolene, Jolene

• Jolene by The Weepies

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