My song today is ‘Bring on the Rain. This song was written by Billy Montana and Helen Darling, and recorded by American country music artist Jo Dee Messina. It was released in September 2001 as the fourth single from her album ‘Burn’. In March 2002, it became Messina's fifth Number 1 country single, and her highest entry on the ‘Adult Contemporary’ charts.
"Bring on the Rain" is a mid-tempo country-pop ballad. In it, the narrator tells that she has had a bad day, but is not let down by it, and is ready for another day as well: "Tomorrow's another day / And I'm thirsty anyway / So bring on the rain." Tim McGraw sings background vocals throughout.
‘Bring on the Rain’ received a ‘Grammy Ward’ nomination for ‘Best Country Collaboration with Vocals’, and a ‘Vocal Event of the Year’ nomination from the ‘Academy of Country Music’.
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The line which appeals to me most in this song is ‘Tomorrow’s another day, and I’m thirsty anyway, so bring on the rain’. To be a person who is thirsty for life is to be a person who embraces life at its best and withstands it at its worse. I know that the British allow their weather to control not only their introduction to most social conversations but also their skies above and everything that it rains on below.
Take for example a young child who thirsts for adventure, exploration, and excitement in their daily life. They love all kinds of weather. When it rains, they enjoy putting on their wellies and jumping in puddles just to see how big a splash they can make. They marvel at the stillness of a water surface that reflects their images. They are enthralled by the magical appearance of the coloured rainbow in the sky after the rain and press their mother to tell them, “Who Painted the sky, Mummy?”. When the sun shines down and warms the earth, children love to sit in water pools in their back garden, or if their parents take them to the seaside, they are thrilled to ride the donkeys on the sand, paddle in the sea, and make sandcastles. In the heavy winds, they will rush into the parks and the wide-open spaces where they can fly their kites, and in autumn months they will happily kick loose piles of leaves in the nearby woods. The winter holds the chance of them feeding the birds in their snow-covered garden, and this white-ground weather allows them to build snowmen, sled down hillside gradients, and have snowball fights. And there is not a child in the land who refuses to marvel when they see the Christmas tree lights turned on for the first time? In short, children love all kinds of experiences that our weather and seasons annually bring throughout the British year, and they embrace the opportunity to do different enjoyable and satisfying things, whatever the weather! Children may allow the changing weather patterns of all seasons to influence their outdoor activities, but they do not allow their happiness/sadness moods, and dispositions to be controlled by the weather.
When it comes to being happy, whenever the opportunity to be happy shows its face, children seize it and revel in it! All adults could learn from the happy dispositions of innocent children. The secret they hold is simple and yet so powerful. They remind us that when we embrace each day with the positive intention of making it a ‘good day’, then ‘a good day it will turn out to be, whatever the weather. So, bring on the rain, and where are my wellies?
Love and peace Bill xxx