Raindrop
(B. Mosley)
appears on Light & Blood
What to say? A sentimental song about being smitten with someone who turned my world upside down in really big ways. At the time I wrote this, I had exceedingly high hopes. What I didn’t realize until years later: THAT was exactly the whole idea all along.
A guy at a show in Montana once told me all too generously he thought that a better song had never been written. That’s guys for ya…
Seriously, though…one of my favorite things about the Light & Blood album is how Jason Novak’s harmonica solo at the end of ‘Preachin’ Blues’ goes right into the first note of ‘Raindrop’. It was entirely unintentional—something we stumbled upon when doing the rough mix. One of my other favorite things about this song is segueing in and out of Widespread Panic’s ‘Airplane’ when I play it live…in the States, it really helps me grab folks in the deep South & Colorado.
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I’m gonna miss wigglin’, Raindrop
Saw the first turn of fall on a beachbound train
Thinking about how your belly’s buttoned and your toes be sparkling
And you saying, “Sit up with me”
Yes, Ms…guess I still l like you a little bit
But not like apple pie…this scent ain’t prone to fade
Maybe “maybe” is all I’m going on…I don’t reckon so
I see the match in musings holding sway
Spin it into you…pin a grin to it send it into the wind, and then believe in it
Clean through the screen door-slammin’drama scene
Though it seems in the throws so woeful, you can go and simmer down the mitote
For example, look to Bean ’til you know it
Yes, Ms…guess I still l like you a little bit
But not like apple pie…this scent ain’t prone to fade
Maybe “maybe” is all I’m going on…I don’t reckon so
I see the match in musings holding sway
Gonna have to uncinch, unsaddle, unbridle right now
Let it ride out the gate outta sight up until
Enough space, the right place take a taste and then somehow
Now we find out how to shine out…it will be thrillin’, I’m sayin’
Yes, Ms…guess I still l like you a little bit
But not like apple pie…this scent ain’t prone to fade
Maybe “maybe” is all I’m going on…I don’t reckon so
I see the match in musings holding sway