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And It Rained All Night Lyrics
[Verse 1]
And it rained all night and washed the filth away
Down New York air conditioned drains
Oh the click click clack of the heavy black trains
A million engines in neutral
Oh the tick tock tick of the ticking time bomb
Fifty feet of concrete underground
One little leak becomes a lake
Says the tiny voice in my earpiece
So I give in to the rhythm, the click click clack
I'm too wasted to fight back
Oh tick tock goes the pendulum
On the old grandfather clock
[Chorus]
I, I can see you
But I can never reach you
[Verse 2]
And it rained all night and then all day
The drops are the size of your hands and face
The worms come out to see what's up
We pull our cars up from the river
It's relentless, invisible, indefatigable
Indisputable, undeniable
So how come it looks so beautiful?
How come the moon falls from the sky?
And it rained all night and washed the filth away
Down New York air conditioned drains
Oh the click click clack of the heavy black trains
A million engines in neutral
Oh the tick tock tick of the ticking time bomb
Fifty feet of concrete underground
One little leak becomes a lake
Says the tiny voice in my earpiece
So I give in to the rhythm, the click click clack
I'm too wasted to fight back
Oh tick tock goes the pendulum
On the old grandfather clock
[Chorus]
I, I can see you
But I can never reach you
[Verse 2]
And it rained all night and then all day
The drops are the size of your hands and face
The worms come out to see what's up
We pull our cars up from the river
It's relentless, invisible, indefatigable
Indisputable, undeniable
So how come it looks so beautiful?
How come the moon falls from the sky?
[Chorus]
I can see you
But I can never reach you
I can see you
But I can never reach you
I can see you
But I can never reach you
I can see you
But I can never reach you
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Genius Annotation
And It Rained All Night, the 7th track on The Eraser, Thom Yorke continues the theme of apocalyptic climate change.
Reflecting the cover art for the album, And It Rained All Night expresses anxieties around rising sea levels causing devastating floods and drastic changes in climate.
It is, like other songs on this album, percussive, erratic and frantic, accompanied by haunting synths and a rhythmic baseline.
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- 1.The Eraser
- 2.Analyse
- 3.The Clock
- 4.Black Swan
- 5.Skip Divided
- 7.And It Rained All Night
- 9.Cymbal Rush
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Recorded At
The Hospital Club, Covent Garden, Greater London, England; Radiohead's studio, Oxfordshire, England
Release Date
July 10, 2006
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