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.
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