An Unexpected Rain

Album: The Awakening (2007)
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  • First time I saw you back in 1982
    An LA bar, I've come so far
    In my Kansas dancin' shoes
    I'm just a singer and I'm lookin for a song
    Do you want to sing along?
    Two Greyhounds later and I'm feelin alright
    I've got to have you and it must be tonight
    C'mon back to my place
    Well, it's really just a room
    But I'll be making some money soon

    Goodbye and thank you
    Oh, my number, yeah, please phone
    Two or three weekends on the 405 alone
    You say, "Come on and stay and when you sing down at the bar
    It will not be so far"

    And I tried to do my best
    I never meant to hurt no one
    I was waitin' for my break
    That I knew one day would come
    And I plug in my guitar
    And I look out across the room
    And I dig into my heart
    And I try to sing the truth
    And I know I did my best
    I never meant to hurt no one

    As I recall back in 1982
    I never said goodbye or why
    I just left a note for you
    Then one night I saw you
    Across the road, across the dark
    A shameful spear into my heart

    Your look was haunting, an unexpected pain
    I am so sorry for the unexpected rain
    The sadness that you kissed
    The fresh scars on you wrist
    I can't make it go away
    And I tried to do my best
    I never meant to hurt no one
    I was waitin' for my break
    That I knew one day would come
    And I plug in my guitar
    And I look out across the room
    And I dig into my heart
    And I would try to sing the truth
    And I know I did my best
    I never meant to hurt no one, no one, no one

    Good night, ladies
    Good night, I'm gonna leave you now
    Good night, ladies
    Good night, I'm gonna leave you now, gonna leave you now
    Good night, ladies
    Good night, gonna leave ya, gonna leave you now
    Good night, ladies
    Good night, gonna leave you now
    Good night, ladies
    Good night
    Sleep tight Writer/s: Melissa Etheridge
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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