Verse 1
She stood where the streetlights
Shimmered below,
People with somewhere
They needed to go.
Cars threw the water
High from the lane,
Nobody noticed
Her tears in the rain.
Verse 2
Her hair on her shoulders,
Her coat soaking through,
A face in the crowd
That nobody knew.
She tried to stop crying,
Then started again,
But nobody sees
Tears in the rain.
Chorus
Tears in the rain,
Falling unseen,
Some from the heavens,
Some from a dream.
Which ones were heartache?
Who could explain?
Nobody knows
Which tears are the rain.
Verse 3
A couple walked past her,
Laughing out loud,
A taxi went searching
Its way through the crowd.
The whole world kept moving,
Again and again,
While she stood there crying
Her tears in the rain.
Verse 4
She looked almost beautiful,
Broken and still,
Holding one memory
She couldn’t quite kill.
No screaming, no anger,
No calling his name,
Just water on water,
And tears in the rain.
Bridge
Maybe he’d left her.
Maybe he’d lied.
Maybe somebody
She loved had just died.
We never will know,
And that’s how it remains—
One woman’s sorrow
Disappearing in rain.
Final Chorus
Tears in the rain,
Falling unseen,
Some from the heavens,
Some from a dream.
Which ones were heartache?
Who could explain?
Nobody knows
Which tears are the rain.
Outro
Then she walked slowly
Out of the light.
The rain kept falling.
So did the night.
Lyrics Michael Forty
Voice Michael Forty