Rain, by Joe Garland: OPEN

Dm                   A                         Dm
Day after day I wake and it’s still raining
Dm                   A                         Dm              A   Dm
Doesn’t do any good to keep on complaining
Gm                  Dm            A                  Dm
I need to start my journey/ Or it will never end
Gm                  Dm            A                  Dm
All my hopes still assure me/ That I need to see you again.

Mile after mile of highway and I’m no nearer
You’d think by this point it’d be clearer
With each town gone by
And every exit passed
I realized that I had to try
To answer questions I’d never asked.

CHORUS
D                                   C
Time and distance the cliché says
G                             D
Makes the heart grow fond
D                                   C
They also temper reality
G                          C
Like some magician’s wand
D                                   C
I’m not so easily taken in
G                                      D
Or wear glasses tinted in rose
D                                      C
I know the truth when I see it
G                                  Dm
And follow it where it goes.

Night after night how empty I’d been feeling
Wondering if there were fears I’d been concealing
Then the idea formed for me
It cut me to my core
That what I thought I longed to see
Was illusion, nothing more.

BREAK
F                                           Dm
The wipers flapping on the windshield
F                                          Dm
Through the mist, the future clearly revealed
Gm            Dm         A         Dm
I pulled into the rest stop just ahead
Gm             Dm         A         Dm
The choice was made I was heading home instead

F                                           Dm
I knew what it was I had to do
F                                           A
And it didn’t involve you

The sky was much clearer in my rear view
It was so lowering as I got near you
The highway seems much straighter
Now that I’ve turned for home
The opportunities so much greater
For me when I’m on my own
I may regret the turn back later
When I’m all alone
No more go-or-stay debater
It’s that I guess I have grown.

CHORUS
Time and distance the cliché says
Makes the heart grow fond
They also temper reality
Like some magician’s wand
I’m not so easily taken in
Or wear glasses tinted in rose
I know the truth when I see it
And follow it where it goes.

Verse
It seems that the truth was just fantasy
And that it took some time for this man to see
That when we parted those years ago
I had reason to leave
It took time and distance for me to know
And now I do believe.

CAPO 2

VERSE:
Dm  /   /   /   |  B   /  /  /  |  Em  /  /  /  |  Dm /  B  /  |
Dm  /   /   /   |  B   /  /  /  |  Em  /  /  /  |  Dm /  B  /  |
Aaam/   /   /   |  Dm  /   /   /  |  B   /  /  /  |  Em  /  /  /  |
Aaam/   /   /   |  Dm  /   /   /  |  B   /  /  /  |  Em  /  /  /  |  |  Dm /  B  /  |

CHORUS:

B  /   /   /   |  G  /   /   /   |  D  /   /   /   |  B  /   /   /   |
B  /   /   /   |  G  /   /   /   |  D  /   /   /   |  G  /   /   /   |

BREAK

F  /   /   /   |  F  /   /   /   |  Dm  /   /   /   |  Dm  /   /   /   |
F  /   /   /   |  F  /   /   /   |  Dm  /   /   /   |  Dm  /   /   /   |
B  /  Dm  /   |  Aaam/  Dm  /   |
B  /  Dm  /   |  Aaam/  Dm  /   |
F  /   /   /   |  F  /   /   /   |  Dm  /   /   /   |  Dm  /   /   /   |
F  /   /   /   |  F  /   /   /   |  B  /   /   /   |  tacit  /   /   /   |

PIANO: VERSE

Em  /   /   /   |  B   /  /  /  |  Em   /  /  /  |  Em /  B  /  |
Em  /   /   /   |  B   /  /  /  |  Em   /  /  /  |  Em /  B  /  |
Am  /   /   /   |  Em  /   /   /  |  B   /  /  /  |  Em   /  /  /  |
Am  /   /   /   |  Em  /   /   /  |  B   /  /  /  |  Em   /  /  /  |  |  Em /  B  /  |

CHORUS:

B  /   /   /   |  A /   /   /   |  E /   /   /   |  B  /   /   /   |
B  /   /   /   |  A /   /   /   |  E /   /   /   |  A /   /   /   |

BREAK

G  /   /   /   |  G  /   /   /   |  Em  /   /   /   |  Em  /   /   /   |
G  /   /   /   |  G  /   /   /   |  Em  /   /   /   |  Em  /   /   /   |
B  /  Em  /   |  Am  /  Em  /   |
B  /  Em  /   |  Am  /  Em  /   |
G  /   /   /   |  G  /   /   /   |  Em  /   /   /   |  Em  /   /   /   |
G  /   /   /   |  G  /   /   /   |  B  /   /   /   |  tacit  /   /   /   |
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