I Am the Rain is a song co-written by Peter Doherty and John Robinson of The Bandits. It was released as track #6 on Peter Doherty's debut solo album, Grace/Wastelands, replacing Through the Looking Glass (eventually released as a B-side to single Last of the English Roses) in a last-minute tracklist change. I Am the Rain was the only previously unheard song from Grace/Wastelands.
Of Robinson, Doherty said in an interview with Clash Music, "He’s had a song for a while called ‘I Am The Rain’, which we used to play backstage and in hotel rooms and at bus stops back in the days when The Bandits used to play with The Libertines. I always wanted to do it, so we worked on it a bit together, changed a word, nicked a third..."
Grace/Wastelands | ![]() | Album | 2009-03-16 |
![]() | ![]() | Camden Roundhouse, London | 2009-09-19 |
![]() | ![]() | Worthy Farm, Glastonbury Festival, UK | 2009-06-27 |
I am the rain
Held in disdain
Lotions and potions just add to my fame
They rhyme that in Spain
I fall on the plain
Truth is I'm ruthless
I can't be contained
I am the rain
My friend the wind
Of breath he is twinned
Blow high or low
High tornados to spin
My mother the cloud
In widow's black shroud
Gives birth to the earth
Before fields can be ploughed
Up in the sky
We've demand to supply
I am necessity, base of the recipe
I am the rain
My cousin the snow
Lays blankets below
States that her flakes are but threads to be sewn
My rival the sun
He ripens the plum
He's feared and revered
He gives sight to the gun
Up in the sky
We've demand to supply
I am necessity, base of the recipe
Up in the sky
We've demand to supply
I am necessity, base of the recipe
I am the rain
Am the rain
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...
I am the rain
Who's held in disdain
The truth is I'm ruthless, I can't be contained
NameI Am the Rain
BandPeter Doherty
CreditsPeter Doherty
John Robinson
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