I Can't Stand The Rain

Album: I Can't Stand The Rain (1973)
Charted: 41 38
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  • I can't stand the rain against my window
    Bringing back sweet memories

    Hey windowpane, do you remember?
    How sweet it used to be
    When we was together
    Everything was so grand
    Now that we've parted
    There's just one sound that I just can't stand

    I can't stand the rain against my window
    Bringing back sweet memories
    I can't stand the rain against my window
    'Cause he's not here with me

    Whoa, empty pillow
    Where his head used to lay
    I know you've got some sweet memories
    But like the window, you ain't got nothin' to say

    I can't stand the rain against my window
    Bringing back sweet memories
    I can't stand the rain
    Against my window
    Just keeps on haunting me
    Hey rain, get off my window
    Because he's not here with me Writer/s: Ann Peebles, Bernard Miller, Don Bryant
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Don from Sevierville, Tn, UsaBoth Eruption and Tina Turner have covered this song. Eruption's version was sped up to a disco beat.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 5th 1974, Ann Peebles performed "I Can't Stand the Rain" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #41 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart five months earlier on August 26th, 1973 at position #99 and seventeen weeks later on December 16th, 1973 it would peak at #38, for one week...
    It reached #6 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1969 and 1979 she had nineteen records make the R&B Singles chart; two made the Top 10, her other Top 10 record was "Part Time Love", it reached #7 in 1970
    Ms. Peebles will celebrate her 68th birthday in three months on April 27th {2015}.
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