The lovely "It's Raining Today" was written and recorded by Scott Walker in 1969 and is a memory poem, full of snapshots from our narrator's past , and just like most nostalgia, is tinged with both the sweetness of before and a weariness of now.
Walker died last March, 2019, at the age of 76.
It's Raining Today
by Scott Walker
It's raining today
And I'm just about to forget
The train window girl
That wonderful day we met
She smiles through the smoke
From my cigarette
It's raining today
But once there was summer and you
And dark little rooms
And sleep in late afternoons
Those moments descend
On my window pane
I've hung around too long
Listening to the old landlady's hard-luck stories
You out of me, me out of you
We go like lovers
To replace the empty space
Repeat our dreams to someone new
It's raining today
And I watch the cellophane streets
No hang-ups for me
'Cause hang-ups need company
The street corner girl's
A cold trembling leaf
It's raining today
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