The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain
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Uploaded on Jan 12, 2010
I hope YouTube doesn't remove this version. Please YouTube I posted this video to COMMENT on how great this song is with no expecations of anything. Yes, I am CRITICIZING YouTube for their actions on other videos that have been removed but also am TEACHING, I hope, that music should not be censored by greed in this forum of us little people and "et al". This version is cut from another YouTuber' video, thanks to the original poster.
This song was written by Roger Penzabene. His first song in the trilogy was "You're My Everything", written as a testament to his love for his wife. After learning of her cheating he was heartbroken. He then wrote "I Wish It Would Rain' describing his pain, then finally "I Could Never Love Another" to finish the trilogy of how he felt.
Unable to handle the extreme pain and unwilling to leave his wife, he wrote the last two songs as personal statements to her, publicizing the pain she caused him. After both songs were completed and recorded, tragically Roger committed suicide.
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as CRITICISM, COMMENT, news reporting, TEACHING, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Lyrics:
Sunshine, blue sky, please go away,
My girl has found another, and gone away
With her went my future, my life is filled with gloom,
So day after day, I stay locked up in my room
I know to you it might sound strange,
But I wish it would rain (oh how I wish that it would rain)
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Hurt so badly
I wanna go outside (such a lovely day)
Everyone knows that a man ain't supposed to cry
Listen, I got to cry, cuz crying, just,
Eaaessee the pain, oh yeah
To the world outside my tears, I refuse to explain
I just wish it would rain (oh how i wish that it would rain)
Oh let it rain, rain, rain, rain (oh how i wish that it would rain)
Ooooooh baby
Let it rain (rain, rain)
Oh yeah, let it rain
Day in day out, my tear stained face
Pressed against my window pane
My eyes search the skies, well, desperately for rain
Cause rain drops will hide my teardrops and no one will ever know
That I'm crying (crying) crying (crying)
When I go outside
To the world outside my tears I refuse to explain,
I wish it would rain (oh how I wish that it would rain)
Rain, rain, rain (oh how I wish that it would rain)
ooooh baby
Let it rain
I need rain to disguise the tears in my eyes
Yeah, You know I'm a man, I ain't got no pride,
Til it rains, I'm gonna stay inside,
Let it rain, Let it rain
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Oh how I wish that it would rain...
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bellinghammond 2 months ago
thumbs up if you think Ruffin had THE best voice in soul music...
Marvin, Sly and Al Green were amazing but David just had it all
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neptunedarling 2 months ago
70 people don't have umbrellas.
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Zola Vest 1 week ago
Ik it off of four brothers with Mark Whelberg
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Kelvin Harrison 1 week ago
what a voice, timeless
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anthony delarosa 1 week ago
Im only
15 And like this better then todays music i know all the temptations song by heart 3
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Ruth Douglas 1 week ago
This is how it's done youngsters. Thank God I was around for all this.
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Mim-Z Mims 1 week ago
"I Wish It Would Rain” had been out less than two weeks when songwriter Roger Penzaben took his life on New Year’s Eve, 1967. He had a troublesome relationship with his wife, who this song was written about. He was unable to handle her leaving him for someone else. I thank God that I have never loved anyone that deeply and pray that I never will...
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qshewbridge 2 weeks ago
Love
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artisphillipsjr 2 weeks ago
I have love this song since I was in College as a freshmen. Later I would sign with Motown Records after college as a writer & producer,became dear friends with Norman Whitfield the producer of this song,who we lost a few years ago. But just in the last month I have found out the writer of this song wrote it about his wife,who had left him and he later killed himself because of the break up,so the lyrics now even have more meaning than ever before to me.Beautiful song,to a sad ending of a life.
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TeTeus151 2 weeks ago
EU VIM ATE AQUI DEVIDO O FILME QUATRO IRMAOS
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cami godwin 2 weeks ago
yeah baby!
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JACK HAMMER 3 weeks ago
a lovely girl i dated in college loved to drive around in her '65 caddy eldorado with the top down when it rained. it was a blast, never dreaming of the day when she left and it rained in my room.
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