Rain Came Back

from Floodplain (2000) by Shaun Belcher

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Recorded four years before my father was disgnosed with pancreatic cancer and he died in August 2004 at age 72.

The day of his funeral was sunny as was my mother's some 8 years later. Their grave was flooded as she was interred.....clay soil near a floodplain.

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RAIN CAME BACK

I lost my father last autumn,
Just as the river started to run,
There were leaves upon the water,
As we carried his body to the alter,

And the rain came back,
There was water in the muddy tracks,
And the rain came back.

Now the old barns are empty,
Wind's rattlin' through the trees,
I'm lookin' back at what might have been
Before things fell apart at the seams,

I'm diggin' a hole for the rotten apples,
The one's the frost turned black,
And I'm prayin' next year's crop
Can be brought in before the rains come back.

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from Floodplain (2000), released January 1, 2000

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