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 falling of the rain
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh Ah
No he didn't hear the falling of the rain
In the forest green lived a girl who
put her hair in braids and she sang
As she walked all about the wooded glades
She was glad when the rain came falling on her face
And she sang, because she didn't mind
the falling of the rain
No, she didn't mind the falling of the rain
Chorus:
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's a fool and his mind is filled
with hopeless dreams
And he waits, but he will not see
the falling of the rain, ah
No, he will not see the falling of the rain
chorus
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, because you can't stop
the falling of the rain, ah
No you can't stop the falling of the rain