Amy Helm
Didn't It Rain

Released: July 25, 2015, Entertainment One Music

Didn't It Rain

It rained 40 days, 40 nights without stopping
Noah was glad when the rain stopped dropping
Knocked at the windows, knocked at the doors
Cried Noah, “Can you take no more?”

Noah cried, “No, I’m full of sin
My Lord’s got the key, and I can’t get in”
Just listen to the rain, just listen to the rain
All day, all night, all night, all day

Didn’t it, rain children, rain all night long
Didn’t it, didn’t it, oh my Lord
Didn’t it rain

God sent a raven to spread the news
Hoist his wings and away he flew
To the north, to the south, to the east, to the west
Some crying, some moaning, some moaning, some praying

Just listen to the rain, listen to the rain
All day, all night. All night, all day
Didn’t it, rain children, rain all night long
Didn’t it, didn’t it, oh my Lord
Oh didn’t it rain

You can run but you can't hide
The river rises higher and higher
Tears falling from heaven's eyes
Mountains like dust in the vault of the sky

God gave Noah the rainbow sign, said
"No more water, fire next time"
Listen to the rain, Just listen to the rain
All day, all night, all night, all day
Just listen to the rain, just listen to the rain

David looked up in the heat of the day
Tuned his harp and began to play
All day, all night, all night, all day
Listen to the rain, just listen to the rain
Some crying, some moaning, some moaning , some praying
Said listen to the rain, just listen to the rain
Said listen to the rain, listen to the rain
All day, all night, all night, all night

Didn’t it, rain children, rain all night long
Didn’t it, didn’t it, oh my Lord
Oh didn’t it rain.

Been gone for so long
I had to be so strong
Sometimes I find
I just don't know which way to go
But the wheels roll on and on

Then I see your smile and
I forget for awhile
Those days are so near
I won't drown in these tears
If you come and rescue me

Come rescue me
I'm falling fast and free
I'm running down
Like a river to the sea

Do you remember when
The willow trees would bend
When time began
The stars would fall
And we would stand
Stand to meet the dawn

I ain't too proud to see
Your love has set me free
How could this be
So thankful for you baby
Come and rescue me 

Come rescue me
I'm falling fast and free
I'm running down
Like a river to the sea

Said my baby’s comin’ home tomorrow
Ain’t that good news, yeah ain’t that news
My baby’s comin’ home tomorrow
Ain’t that news, yeah ain’t that news

Got a letter just the other day
Telling me he was on his way
And he wants me to meet him at the station
Ain’t that good news, yeah ain’t that news

In the letter he told me he loved me
Ain’t that good news, yeah ain’t that news
In the letter he told me he loved me
Ain’t that news, yeah ain’t that news

He said he’s sorry that he left
Found out he don’t want nobody else
Said he wants me all to himself
Ain’t that good news, yeah ain’t that news

Good news, ain’t that good news
Yeah, ain’t that news
My baby’s coming home tomorrow,
Ain’t that good news, ain’t that news

Gonna have him a party at the station
Ain’t that good news, ain’t that news
Gonna have him a party at the station
Ain’t that news, yeah ain’t that news

I can’t wait to get him home
Where we can be alone
Disconnect the telephone
Ain’t that good news, yeah ain’t that news

[Chorus]

Come stay by me
And together we’ll be
In the shadows of the tall tall pines

I’ll gather you in
And together we’ll swim
The deep waters in your blue blue eyes

Down in the deepWhere it’s silent and still
And a longing’s fulfilled
And only our love remains

Down we’ll go
In the sweet undertoe
Deep waters of you and me

I’ll meet you there
And a moment we’ll share
In the shadows of the tall tall pines

But I can’t let you in
For no one can swim
The troubled waters in my blue blue eyes

Down in the deep
Where the heart’s unfulfilled
And silence can kill
And only my sorrow remains

Down we’ll go
In the steep undertoe
Deep waters of you and me

Never to know
The love lost below
Deep waters of you and me

Kind friends gather round me
Raise up your glass
As the sun cuts a path cross the sky
Time passes slowly or it goes by too fast
And tomorrow we're gonna spend our last dime

Take down the fiddle
Rosin up the bow
Roll back the rug one more time
Play me the best country waltz that you know
'Cause tomorrow we're gonna spend our last dime

Waltz through the hallways of grief and despair
Shake off the sorrows of a hard empty year
Tell me that you love me so dear
And tomorrow we're gonna spend our last dime

[Repeat first verse, repeat chorus]

I lay down on your pillow
I lay down my weary head
Lately I’ve learned to worry
As I watch you learning how to forget

See the sign in the window
Everything, it must go
Why can’t I believe
All of the things I should know, I should know

Sky’s falling baby, it’s falling down
Don’t give up baby, got to turn it around

Meet me out in the garden
In the sweet summer shade
We’ve got nothing but the blues to lose
And nothing but world to save

Sky’s falling baby, it’s falling down
Don’t give up baby, got to turn it around
Sky’s falling baby, it’s falling down
Don’t give up baby, got to turn it around

You passed right through me
Walked off with your back to the wind
Moved out with the morning
Left me alone in my skin

There’s a hole where I held you
And a hunger I’ve run from for years
The fire of my anger that scared you
Has turned into tears

Gentling me, gentling me
I lost it all, and that set me free
Cast out and scorned, but somehow reborn
Sorrow and grief
They are gentling me

Peering out windows
At a world spinning violent and mean
Fragile like children
Hiding but easily seen

Both of us wounded
Carelessly damaged for life
Only kindness can save us
Only love can make it feel right

Gentling me, gentling me
Facing the truth, down on my knees
My eyes to the sky, learning to cry
Sorrow and grief
They are gentling me

My heart has travelled so many seasons of pain
My dreams unravelled, but the reasons I love you remain

Gentling me, gentling me
Lay down my arms, surrender in peace
My fury transformed, my hard edges worn
Sorrow and grief, they are gentling me
Sorrow and grief, they are gentling me

Rolling mountains, rolling sand
Rolling south, Rio Grande
Sunlight ripples like a sail
Burning off the vapor trails

See the wildflowers passing by
Spilling underneath the power lines
Washes as out as you go
Same old faces, same old road

Roll away
Like the night before the break of day
A passing moment we tried to save
Just rolls away 

Words of welcome, words from home
Silence on the telephone
Buckled up, nowhere to go
In a crowd, and I’m all alone

Out the window way up high
Glimmering against the sky
Something I saw in dream
Waits down the road for me

Roll away
Roll away
All the things that we wanted to say
Just roll away

Roll away, roll away

Sing to me
Let your voice come down
And carry me through this silent trouble

I cannot see the angels by my side
Sing, sing to me
Sing, sing to me

Voices resound
And love comes back around

Keep me near to your melody
And let me hear all the notes gliding
I can feel my heart beat back in time
Keep, keep me near
Keep, keep me near

Voices resound
And love comes back around

Sing to me
Let your drums call out
And carry me through this silent trouble

I cannot see the angels by my side
Sing, sing to me
Sing, sing to me

JD Riley, what will you do
Read your letter through and through
And it don’t say much, what you got in mind
How long, how long ‘til you’ll be mine

And all I got, is a memory
Your keen blue eyes burned a hole in me
Left me here, a little too long
So long, so long now you’re gone

Stand up, Stand tall
Find your way to my front door
So sad and all alone, 
Roll roll roll this stone
Gotta Roll this stone

Every night there’s a train through town
Tired of hearing that lonesome sound
One of these days, I may have to know
How far, how far does this train go

Stand up, Stand tall
Find your way to my front door
So sad and all alone, 
roll roll roll the stone
Yeah I gotta roll the stone

JD Riley, what will you do
Read your letter through and through
And it don’t say much, what you got in mind
How long, how long ‘til you’ll be mine

I can feel it in the air
Electricity is everywhere
Heavy clouds, no rain
I can feel the thunder on my window pain

Heat Lightning
Heat Lightning

Wind is whippin’, in the trees
My head is dizzy, weak in the knees
Just when I thought the coast was clear
Well it knocks me off my feet and it’s buzzing in my ear

Heat lightning
Heat lightning 

I can feel it everywhere
I can see it in the air
I can hear it  knocking at my door
Well there’s fire in the sky and the heavens start to roar

Heat lightning
Heat lightning

I’m in the high woods
Where snow is falling down
Memories of Georgia
Where you laid your dreams in the ground

Run Wild Girl run
Into your setting sun
Find the road that takes you far away

Smoke in the sycamores
Words scratched in stone
Picture left by a window
Yearning left unknown

Run Wild Girl run
Into your setting sun
Find the road, the road that takes you far away

All alone in the darkest night
Were you scared did you take flight
Did an angel lift you high above
Were you rescued, were you loved

If I could, if I could
If I could, if I could
If I could, if I could
I’d Trace a trail to you

All the roads lead to the city
All the rivers lead to the sea
May the stars lead you to glory
Running wild and free

Run Wild Girl run
Into your setting sun
Find the road that takes you far awa