Lyrics to
Cold Rain

This version of Cold Rain was released by Stills & Nash Crosby in 1977.

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Cold rain down on my face
Buses hurry on
Work’s out here comes the race
People heading home

Wait a second, don’t I know you?
Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?
You seem to be like someone I knew
Yes, he lived here but he left
When he thought that there was more

Than cold rain and nowhere to go
Many people share
Sad dreams and hopes that are stained
By the sulphur in the air

Don’t I know you?
Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?
You seem to be like someone I knew
He lived here but he left
When he thought that there was more

Than cold rain out on the streets
I am all alone
With cold rain down on my face
I am heading home

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About Lyrics and Cold Rain by Stills & Nash Crosby

When you decide to study the lyrics to Cold Rain, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Stills & Nash Crosby. Some of the lyrics to Cold Rain have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Stills & Nash Crosby and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Cold Rain if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Cold Rain" means the words set to the music of Cold Rain, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Stills & Nash Crosby. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Cold Rain and the lyrics to Cold Rain are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Stills & Nash Crosby who came here looking just for the lyrics to Cold Rain, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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