3:01
single, 1966
Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon
This excellent B-side features a slowed-down rhythm track, a droning bass line that evoking Asian musical stylings and, at the end, backwards vocals. Lyrically, it ostensibly extols the value of rain instead of complaining about the weather: "Rain, I don't mind / Shine, the weather's fine / I can show you that when it starts to rain / Everything's the same." But the repeated line "I can show you," the later line "it's just a state of mind" and the Beatles' exploration of psychedelia at the time points to a deeper meaning, that of rain representing some sort of expanded consciousness that Lennon feels privy to.
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