Raining in Baltimore Lyrics

I'd like to hear a little guitar, I guess it's time to put the top down
I need a phone call, I need a raincoat
I really need a raincoat; I really, really need a raincoat
I really, really, really need a raincoat; I really need a raincoat

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Adam Duritz explained that “Raining In Baltimore” was written about feeling lost. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but his family moved away when he was three years old. Though he would visit his grandmother in Baltimore over several summers in his youth, his family moved so often he felt he wasn’t from any specific place:

When I’m 50 miles east of Baltimore, it’s is like 50 miles east of where I come from, which is blank to me. It’s a way of being lost. Somehow, in all these years of traveling around the world, I’ve only managed to be 50 miles east of the place I was born, and I don’t even know what it means to be there.

Duritz originally wrote “Raining In Baltimore” intending for Bonnie Raitt to perform it.

“Raining In Baltimore” is frequently played at shows in the middle of Round Here.

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What did Counting Crows say about "Raining in Baltimore"?
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Adam Duritz shared:

I had a friend (Bonnie Simmons) who was close friends with Bonnie Raitt. She used to go thru all the cassette tapes fans sent Bonnie Raitt and find songs for Bonnie on the thousands of tapes. She actually found “Something To Talk About” in one of those boxes and, when I was younger, I used to help her with that. Bonnie Raitt was one of the first professional musicians I met and she was very kind to me. I actually wrote “Raining In Baltimore” to give to Bonnie Raitt.

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Release Date
September 14, 1993
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