When I sat down to write this song I started with a blues song in mind - hey...Muddy Waters made a living out of two chord riffs. Anyway, it morphed a bit but basically it is a blues song.
The song is based on a paragraph I wrote a while ago about being alone in your living room in a storm. I wrote the piece to use as a starting point for a song but forgot about it until I| was trolling through my hook book looking for ideas.
Its form is unconventional with a single unbalanced verse, a chorus then a bridge and then a chorus. I wanted the listener to feel the frustration, the veiled anger and loneliness the narrator feels lying on his floor without his lover as a thunder storm rolls in and out around him.
The chords are Em and A7. The riff during the bridge is a Em arpeggio. I played the two chords in the second and third position on the guitar to add a bit of sonic variance and perhaps fool the listener into thinking there are more than two chords.
Here it is on sound cloud: when-it-rains
When It Rains
As lie here on the floor the thunder pounds inside my head
The flashes in the sky send shivers all around my spine
I wonder if your walls shake and rattle like mine
When it rains I think of you , and the love we shared
When it rains I think of you, with the pouring down outside
When it rains I think of you, the lightening in my eyes
When it rains I think of you, can't get you off my mind
The lights flicker with the drum beat in the distance
The floor boards ride my back like a crucifixion thorn
The rain outside my window sounds like static on the radio
I wonder if you sweat like me in the dark when it storms
When it rains I think of you , and the love we shared
When it rains I think of you, with the pouring down outside
When it rains I think of you, the lightening in my eyes
When it rains I think of you, can't get you off my mind
The rain outside my window sounds like static on the radio
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