I Wish It Would Rain

(Nanci Griffith)

Oh, I wish it would rain

And wash my face clean

I want to find some dark cloud to hide in here

Love in a memory

Sparkled like diamonds

When the diamonds fall they burn like tears

Once I had a love from the Georgia pines

Who only cared for me

I wanna find that love of twenty-two

Here at thirty-three

I've got a heart on my right

One on my left neither suits my needs

No, the one I love lives a-way out West

And he never will need me

I'm gonna pack up my two step shoes

And head for the Gulf Coast plains

I wanna walk the streets of my own hometown

Where everybody knows my name

I wanna ride the waves down in Galveston

When the hurricane blow in

'cause that Gulf Coast water tastes sweet as wine

When your heart's rollin' home in the wind

When the diamonds fall, darlin'

They burn like tears