[Silence]
[Arrangement: Swampy, hard-grooving blues-rock with gritty guitar, stomping drums, distorted bass, Hammond organ, and a chorus that hits like thunder over dry ground]
[Intro]
Clouds roll in
(But not for free)
Dust blows out
(From the thirsty trees)
Clouds roll in
(But not for free)
Somebody’s dealin’
(With destiny)
[Verse 1]
He came in low
(With a copper grin)
Boots in the mud
(And a storm within)
One hand lifted
(To the sky)
One hand buried
(In what ran dry)
He knew the cracks
(In every field)
Knew how hunger
(Makes a spirit yield)
Said, “I can bring it”
(If you pay the price)
But rain like that
(Ain’t ever nice)
[Chorus]
The reign
(Of the rainmaker)
Turned up the heat
(On the people – Beat!)
The reign
(Of the rainmaker)
Turned dry to flood
(And blood to mud)
[Refrain]
Reignmaker
(Suck the soil)
Spill the sky
(Fortune taker)
Reignmaker
Now you ask why?
(Cry n’ die)
Or learn to live
(…to give….)
Rain love
(From above)
[Verse 2]
First came the drought
(The river thinned)
Then came the wind
(And the dust rolled in)
Then came the promise
(Of relief at last)
But every blessing
(Moved too fast)
The clouds broke hard
(The levees groaned)
The fields were drowned
(The roots were blown)
Too little, too much
(In the same refrain)
That’s how it goes
(When you bargain with rain)
[Chorus]
The reign
(Of the rainmaker)
Turned up the heat
(On the people – Beat!)
The reign
(Of the rainmaker)
Baked the earth
(Then drowned rebirth)
[Bridge]
He don’t make weather
(He makes a trade)
Between your fear
(And the bets you’ve made)
A little more heat
(A little less grace)
A little more chaos
(In every place)
He rides the line
(Between flood and flame)
And every town
(Learns his name)
[Instrumental]
[Dirty guitar solo]
[Organ grind]
[Tom-heavy drum break like rolling thunder]
[Breakdown]
Rainmaker…
(Reignmaker…)
Fortune taker…
(Fortune taker…)
Suck the soil…
(Spill the sky…)
Cry n’ die…
(Or learn to live…)
[Final Chorus]
The reign
(Of the rainmaker)
Turned up the heat
(On the people – Beat!)
The reign
(Of the rainmaker)
Brought on stark
(And left its mark)
[Final Refrain]
Reignmaker
(Suck the soil)
Spill the sky
(Fortune taker)
Reignmaker
Now you ask why?
(Cry n’ die)
Or learn to live
(…to give….)
Rain love
(From above)
Rain love
(From above)
Love, love, love
[Outro]
Clouds roll in
(But not for free)
Somebody’s dealin’
(With destiny)
[Refrain fade]
Rain love
(From above)
Rain love
(From above)
Love, love, love
Rossby Waves, Climatic Whiplash, and the Nonlinear Destabilization of Atmospheric Circulation
From the album “Displacement“