LED ZEPPELIN - FOOL IN THE RAIN

FOOL IN THE RAIN

LED ZEPPELIN

SONGWRITERS: JOHN PAUL JONES; JIMMY PAGE & ROBERT PLANT

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR

LABEL: SWAN SONG

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1979

 

             Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. With a heavy, guitar-driven sound, they are cited as one of the progenitors of hard rock and heavy metal, although their style drew from a variety of influences, including blues and folk music. Led Zeppelin have been credited as significantly impacting the nature of the music industry, particularly in the development of album-oriented rock (AOR) and stadium rock.

      Originally named the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin's deal with Atlantic Records gave them considerable artistic freedom. Initially unpopular with critics, they achieved significant commercial success with eight studio albums over ten years. Their 1969 debut, Led Zeppelin, was a top-ten album in several countries and featured such tracks as "Good Times Bad Times", "Dazed and Confused" and "Communication Breakdown". Led Zeppelin II(1969) was their first number-one album, and yielded "Ramble On" and "Whole Lotta Love". In 1970 they released Led Zeppelin III which featured "Immigrant Song". Their untitled fourth album, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV (1971), is one of the best-selling albums in history with 37 million copies sold. The album includes "Black Dog", "Rock and Roll" and "Stairway to Heaven", with the latter being among the most popular and influential works in rock history. Houses of the Holy (1973) yielded "The Ocean", "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "The Rain Song". Physical Graffiti(1975), a double album, featured "Trampled Under Foot" and "Kashmir".

      Page wrote most of Led Zeppelin's music, particularly early in their career, while Plant wrote most of the lyrics. Jones's keyboard-based compositions later became central to their music, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess and debauchery. Although they remained commercially and critically successful, their touring and output, which included Presence(1976) and In Through the Out Door(1979), grew limited, and the group disbanded following Bonham's death in 1980. Since then the surviving former members sporadically collaborated and participated in one-off reunions. The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, with Bonham's son Jason Bonham on drums.

            Led Zeppelin are one of the best-selling music artists of all time; their total record sales are estimated to be between 200 to 300million units worldwide. They achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums and six number-one albums on the US Billboard 200, with five of their albums certified Diamond in the US. Rolling Stone magazine described them as "the heaviest band of all time", "the biggest band of the Seventies", and "unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history". They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995; the museum's biography of the band states that they were "as influential" during the 1970s as the Beatles were during the 1960s.

       "Fool in the Rain" is the third song on Led Zeppelin's 1979 album In Through the Out Door. It was the last single released in the US before they formally disbanded in 1980. The song reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 16 February 1980.

Oh, baby

Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining

Like a star that can't wait for night

I hate to think I 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 give me fright

And I'm shaking so much, really yearning

Why don't you show up and make it alright, yeah?

It's alright right

 

And if you promised you'd love so completely

And you said you would always be true

You swore that you never would leave me baby

Whatever happened to you?

And you thought it was only in movies

As you wish all your dreams would come true, hey

It ain't the first time believe me baby

I'm standing here feeling blue, blue ha!

Yes I'm blue

Oh, babe

 

Now I will stand in the rain on the corner

I watch the people go shuffling downtown

Another ten minutes no longer

And then I'm turning around, 'round

And the clock on the wall's moving slower

Oh, 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, found

 

Light of the love that I found

Light of the love that I found

Oh, that I found

 

Hey, babe, ooh

 

Hand that ticks on the clock

Just don't seem to stop

When I'm thinking it over

Oh, tired of the light

I just don't seem to find

Have you wait, yeah played

Whoa, I see it in my dreams

But I just don't seem to be with you, you

I gotta get it all, gotta get it all, gotta get it all

I've got to get all

 

Ooh now my body is starting to quiver

And the palms of my hands getting wet, oh

I got no reason to doubt you baby

It's all a terrible mess

And I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless

When I'm breathless I'll run 'til I drop, hey!

And the thoughts of a fool's kind of careless

I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah

 

Hey, now, oh, oh, oh

Light of the love that I found

Light of the love that I found

Light of the love that I

Light of the love that I found

Light of the hey, now light of the hey, now

Light of the love that I found

Light of the love that I found.