Lyrics to
It Only Rains On Me

This version of It Only Rains On Me was released by Don Williams in 1979.

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I know all about black clouds,
There’s one that follows me around
It may sound funny but somehow,
It only rains on me.

It follows me, most everywhere,
And it seems its hardly fair
People will stop and people stare,
But it only rains on me.

Broken dreams and drowned parades,
Lovers who just slip away
Guess I learn to live that way,
It only rains on me.

Seems to me there was a time,
It used to rain on friends of mine
Now I look around and find,
It only rains on me.

I’ll bet this won’t hurt you much,
You’ll find someone soon enough
I’m the one that loses in love,
It only rains on me.

It’s time we said goodbye and so,
I’ll just take my cloud and go
Don’t worry you’ll forget I know,
It only rains on me.

Broken dreams and drowned parades,
Lovers who just slip away
Guess I learn to live that way,
It only rains on me.

Seems to me there was a time,
It used to rain on friends of mine
But now I look around and find,
It only rains on me…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to It Only Rains On Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Don Williams. Some of the lyrics to It Only Rains On Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Don Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to It Only Rains On Me 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 It Only Rains On Me" means the words set to the music of It Only Rains On Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Don Williams. 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 It Only Rains On Me and the lyrics to It Only Rains On Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Don Williams who came here looking just for the lyrics to It Only Rains On Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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