Rain

I just can't take this anymore. Just checked the forecast for the next couple of days and it's rain, rain, rain. I am utterly depressed, with bouts of seasonal affective disorder & risking becoming a very violent person if the sun doesn't come out soon. I'm more than ready to put away the wellies and get out my sandals. I've cancelled pedicures twice because I'm not going to waste money if I can't show off my toe nails. "Rain, rain go away, come back another day. Little Johnny wants to play."

The only good thing about rain that occurs to me is this amazing song "Chuva/Rain", in Mariza's mesmerizing voice.

With the English translation of the lyrics:

Chuva (Rain)

Things that are ugly in life

Leave us with no longings,

It's only memories

That make us cry or smile.

There are people who remain a part of us

And become a part of our own story

While there are others

Whose names we hardly remember.

Feelings are which give life

To the nostalgia I carry

Of the one I held close and then somehow lost.

The rain wets my body

So cold and so tired

The many streets in the city

Each one I have wandered

With the tears of a lost child

Echoed back from the city,

The fire of love quickly put out

In the rain.

The rain listened and whispered

My secret to the city

And now when it taps on my window

It still brings back the nostalgia.