Tricks are made for kids, don’t you know that? Instead, he decided to take all of his wealth away from her and leave her with nothing. Whip out the jammy and flat-blast both of youīut I ain’t wanna mess up this thirty-seven hundred dollar lynx coat So upset with you I don’t know what to do After he lets her know he saw her with another man he says: As I look back on it now, it is a bit silly, but we waited for it every time and just cracked up at this spoken section of the song. He makes the easy and spiteful decision to drop her – but not without a few choice words. The song opens with the chorus, “I saw you and him walking rain / You were holding hands and I will never be the same.” So, decision time. The listener is not surprised at the outcome because the song begins with the man finding out about the illicit affair. The story is a simple one: rich boy meets girl – they fall in love – girl fools around – boy drops girl, you know, that old chestnut. “The Rain” reached #9 and gave the impression that Jones would be on the charts for a long time, but, like everyone else featured in this series, it was not meant to be – if you gotta have only one hit, though, this is a great one. It is not the best song or even our favorite from that decade (that honor probably belongs to Prince’s “Purple Rain”), but we did love this song and the somewhat humorous telling of a story that ends with poetic justice. In 1986 my best friends (LeRoyce and Marvin) and I fell in love with this song and played it constantly for an entire month.
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