Lyrics to
Looking At The Rain

This version of Looking At The Rain was released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1972.

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Looking at the rain
Feeling the pain
Of love lost running though
My brain
Looking at the wind
Watching it spin
The leaves along the street
You win
Waiting for a line to fall
Telling you it’s all a big mistake

Looking at a face
So out of place
Inside that picture frame
Of lace
Looking at the wall
Wishing you’d call
And tell me you’re OK
That’s all

Wishing this was all a dream
And I’d find you sleeping when I wake

Looking at the trees
So ill at ease
From sleep that will not come
That’s me
Looking at the dawn
Knowing it’s wrong
Still thinking of your love
That’s gone

Wishing this was all a dream
And I’d find you sleeping when I wake

Looking at the rain
Feeling the pain
Of love lost running though
My brain
Looking at the wind
Watching it spin
The leaves along the street
You win

Waiting for a line to fall
Telling you it’s all a big mistake
But the words won’t come
I know I’d feel the same
Looking at the rain

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About Lyrics and Looking At The Rain by Gordon Lightfoot

The lyrics for Looking At The Rain are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Gordon Lightfoot. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Looking At The Rain have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Looking At The Rain - Gordon Lightfoot and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Looking At The Rain by Gordon Lightfoot in multiple ways. 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 Looking At The Rain" means the words set to the music of Looking At The Rain, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gordon Lightfoot. 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 Looking At The Rain and the lyrics to Looking At The Rain are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gordon Lightfoot who came here looking just for the lyrics to Looking At The Rain, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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