Once upon a time in the land of misty satin dreams

There stood a house and a man who painted nature scenes

He painted trees and fields and animals and streams and he stayed

And he didn't hear the fallin' of the rain



In the forest green lived a girl who put her hair in braids

And she sang as she walked all around the wooded glade

She was glad when the rain came falling on her face and she sang

'Cause she didn't mind the fallin' of the rain



Will it always be the same as we recall?

Does it touch you when the rain begins to fall?

Ah, but I don't want to know and I don't want to see

Another rainy day without you lyin' next to me



High upon a hill far away from all the dusty crowd is a boy

With his eyes on the ground; his head is bowed; he is a fool

And his mind is filled with hopeless dreams and he waits

But he will not see the fallin' of the rain



Will it always be the same as we recall?

Does it touch you when the rain begins to fall?

Ah, but I don't want to know and I don't want to see

Another rainy day without you lyin' next to me



So now the boy becomes the man who sits and paints all day

But the girl with the braids in her hair has gone away

And it seems that time has brought things to an end; nothing's changed

'Cause you can't stop the fallin' rain.