This is my favorite song - ever. It is such a beautiful long song, but yet it is such a beautiful song about being alone and just thinking about everything that is home to you when you feel so utterly lost and alone. In those moments when you feel so lost, you can see with such clairty, everything that has importance and meaning in your life - looking back and seeing the meaning, but then knowing that you have to continue on with your path in life - like the rain.
I hear the drizzle of the rain |
This is where I get all my grand ideas about the rain imagery (see also The Dangling Conversation) - the rain stands for this depressed longing state that he is. So as the rain falls, he thinks of all of his memories of her, and it just keeps beating into his psyche. |
And from the shelter of my mind |
He looks past all loss that he is feeling - to his home, to where she is and where he was happy. |
My mind's distracted and diffused |
His mind is not with him; he's trapped in the place where she is. He thinks of her and in his mind he's there taking care and loving her. |
And this song I was writing is left undone |
He doesn't think that they are "done" - his story is his song and he's wondering how it all makes sense and why it's all not coming together right - why he can't make it last. |
And so you see I have come to doubt |
Everything he's thinking is jumbled in his mind and all that is clear, is her. He's trying to strip away what is confusing him and keep the thing that he believes has meaning, her. |
And as I watch the drops of rain |
He's resorted to love her unconditionally, and accepts being like the "rain." He travels the world leaving his path. I wish that I could think different, but it just seems to me that he's saying that she's forever in his mind, but he's gone. |