I love that Eddie Rabbit song, although that’s not what I’m listening to right now. Acutally it’s Elton John’s “I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues”
I love hearing this song on a rainy night. Anytime really since it’s my favorite Elton John song, but especially on rainy nights. The song is just so…. potent.
You can listen to it on songza if you’d like to indulge while reading the rest of this post.
Until the mosquitos got too agressive I was laying in the grass in the rain, enjoying the light shower and the flicker of the lightning off in the distance. The whole time I was out there watching the clouds roll by I had this song playing in my mind. It reminded me of that scene in “The Shawshank Redemption” when Tim Robbins character Andy DuFrane talks about the time he did in solitary as the “easiest time he ever did”, accompanied by the music in his mind.
These are nice kind of nights, and I miss them sometimes, but I’m glad tonight was one of those nights. I suppose it’s more about a frame of mind than anything else, and right now I feel wonderfully relaxed and tingly from the combination of the rain, metaphorically washing away the remains of the day and the cleansing of my mind as the clouds washed across the sky.
