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Fool In The Rain Lyrics - Led Zeppelin



Oh, baby

Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
Like a star that can't wait for the night
I hate to think I've been blinded baby
Why can't I see you tonight?

And the warmth of your smile starts a burning
And the thrill of your touch gives me fright
And I'm shaking so much, really yearning
Why can't you show up, make it all right?
Yeah. It's all right.

And if you promised you'd love so completely
and you said you would always be true
You swore that you would never leave me baby
What ever happened to you?

And you thought it was only ....
As you wish all your dreams would come true--Hey
It ain't the first time believe me baby
I'm standin here feeling blue
Yeah I'm blue

Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown
Another ten minutes no longer
And then I'm turning around

The clock on the wall's moving slower
My heart it sinks to the ground
And the storm that I thought would blow over
Clouds the light of the love that I found

Now my body is starting to quiver
And the palms of my hands getting wet
I've got no reason to doubt you baby
It's all a terrible mess

I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless
When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop
The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless
I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block
Light of the love that I found

Jimmy Page got the idea for the Samba beat from watching the World Cup soccer tournament in 1978. Argentina was the host country, and he heard a lot of Samba rhythms while watching.
This was the last Led Zeppelin song to chart.
This song was never performed live because the group didn't think the sound came off well. The piano was quite necessary in the song, but with John Paul Jones on piano there could be no bass, and the bass is very important in this one. There is also a twelve-string line at one point in the song and the guitar solo that has to be pulled off. The middle section was another issue.
Jimmy Page used regular distortion on this song, as well as an obscure effect called a called a blue box, which is a fuzz/octave pedal. This fuzzes (or distorts) the guitar, then drops it down two whole octaves. James Taylor's bassist has used this effect. (thanks, John - Boca Raton, FL, for above 2)
Mexican rockers Man? recorded this for the Spanish language market edition of the Tribute album Encomium. It's the only officially-released Led Zeppelin cover song in Spanish (thanks, Sergio - San Diego, CA).

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