Lyrics to
Rainy Day Man

This version of Rainy Day Man was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1974.

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What good is that happy lie
All you wanted from the start was to cry

Well it looks like another fall
My friends they don’t help at all
And I’m feeling kind of cold and small
Think I’ll look up my rainy day man

And it does me no good to pretend
When he’s made a hole much too big to mend
And it looks like I lose again my friend
Guess I’ll have to look up my rainy day man

Rainy day man
He don’t like sunshine
Don’t chase rainbows
He don’t need good times
Grey days roll in
And then you’ll see him
It’s an empty feelin’
Now I need him

All those noble thoughts they don’t belong
If you can’t hide the truth with a happy song
And since I knew where I stood all along
Think I’ll look up my rainy day man

Simple pleasures all evade you
And the store-bought treasures none can save you
Look for signs to ease the pain
I said, ask again
Why don’t you pray for rain

Oh, it looks like another fall
And my friends they don’t help at all
And I’m feeling kind of cold and small
Think I’ll look up my rainy day man
All I have to do is look at my baby
Look up my rainy day man
Oooo, look up my rainy day man
All I have to do
Is look up my rainy day man…

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About Lyrics and Rainy Day Man by Bonnie Raitt

The lyrics for Rainy Day Man are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Bonnie Raitt. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Rainy Day Man 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 Rainy Day Man - Bonnie Raitt 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 Rainy Day Man by Bonnie Raitt 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 Rainy Day Man" means the words set to the music of Rainy Day Man, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bonnie Raitt. 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 Rainy Day Man and the lyrics to Rainy Day Man are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bonnie Raitt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Rainy Day Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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