Red Earth & Pouring Rain

Album: Red Earth & Pouring Rain (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • The title track of Bear's Den second album, this was based on a poem that guitarist Andrew Davie found in the Greenwood Bethlehem hotel in India. It reads:

    What could my mother be to yours?
    What kin is my father to yours anyway?
    And how did you and I meet ever?
    But in love our hearts were as red earth and pouring rain


    Drummer Kevin Jones told HMV.com: "Andrew was out in India and he found this old Tamil poem that was called Red Earth & Pouring Rain. It inspired the first song for the album and it really summed up what we were going for. It gave us creative direction and if you've got a phrase that's always in your head, it's a good fixture."

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