Rain on I-84

by Emily Stebbins

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Lyrics

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A thousand cloudy sounds come falling miles to the ground
    Am                                              C
A flying ocean bumps into a mountain and falls down
Dm
The freight train's deep undying song
D
The breathing of my sleeping love
Gsus4                                        C
When I can hear the rain I know I'm home.

Sweet onions, wine and cowboys bid the drier side goodbye
When you hit the gorge the air will change as the river fills the sky
Columbia's harnessed wild horsepower
Lights truck stops cross the miles for hours
When I can hear the rain I know I'm home.

Chorus:
     G7                    C
     So rain and rock me gently
     G         Am
     Rain on me
     Dm                   C
     Like a song until I'm sleeping
     G         C
     Rain on me.

I used to ride this highway as a backseat-driving child
The fields of shining windmills and the dust would make me cry
I missed these rolling hills back then
But now you couldn't make me go back again
When I can hear the rain I know I'm home.

Chorus

A thousand cloudy sounds come falling miles to the ground.

Emily Stebbins is a third-year student at Fairhaven College, with a concentration in Human Ecology and Sustainable Community Development and a Spanish major.

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