Imitation #6(Music of the 2000's)

Eyedea – Liquid Sovereignty

“Rain,

Everyone wants to get out of the rain

Wants to be free, wants to see no more pain

We’re guaranteed that the season will change

‘Til then, I’m keeping sunshine on my brain

When the drops hit my head they leave a stain

Everyone wants to get out of the rain

We cannot avoid nature’s bleeding vein

But I smile while it trickles down the rain”

This is a song by the late Eyedea – off his 2001 album First Born – in which he uses rain as a metaphor.  For what?  It would seem to be pain, but it could be something more complicated than that.  I’m not in Eyedea’s head, but the dude was deep as any emcee I’ve ever heard.  The entire song is a figurative meaning, as I’ve stated with his concept on rain and pain flowing throughout.  The rhyme structure is basic end rhyme, but it’s made more interesting by the fact that the entire song is made up of words that rhyme with ‘rain.’  The main theme would seem to be Eyedea explaining how everyone hates pain, and never wants that feeling.  However, without pain, we wouldn’t know it’s opposite, which is joy.  Without pain, we would not be the same people we are today.  This is further cemented as Eyedea begins his first verse, in which he says, “harvested love only comes after rain, even though it brings overwhelming strain.  It falls from all skies so I can’t complain.  Without it, our growth would not be the same.  Most people like to have someone to blame, but it falls randomly, not taking aim.  It makes up one half of the yin and yang.”  Because the structure is so simple and is constant throughout the song, there’s not much I can say there.  Nor can I actually really speak much on the context, since I would just be beating a dead horse.  I would say the song is a confessional, since Eyedea is confessing he’s glad that there is pain in the world to make him who he is.  I strongly encourage anyone who hasn’t heard of Eyedea to check out this song and then further delve into his music.