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Blind Melon – No Rain lyrics
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watchin' the puddles gather rain

And all I can do is just pour some tea for two
And speak my point of view
But it's not sane, It's not sane

I just want someone to say to me oh, oh, oh, oh
I'll always be there when you wake yea, yea
Ya know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I'll have it made

And I don't understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there's no rain

And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape
Escape...... Escape...... Escape......

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
Ya don't like my point of view
Ya think I'm insane
Its not sane...... It's not sane.

I just want someone to say to me oh, oh, oh, oh
I'll always be there when you wake yea, yea
Ya know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I'll have it made

(I'll have it made
I'll have it made
You know we're really gonna, really gonna have it made
Gonna have it made
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh, ahhh)
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Songwriters: Brad Smith, Christopher Thorn, Glen Graham, Shannon Hoon, Thomas Stevens
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    Unregistered 2012-01-26 05:21:11
    In the depths of an unwelcome and lonely depression, a man may fantasize about the possibility of his former lover's return. These little moments are as close to happiness as he can get at that moment. Nothing really seems worth doing in the meantime, hence the drab visuals. "i'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, so stay with me and we'll have it made" says it all. A sad man trying to be happy, a sad song trying to be happy. Very human, very accurate, very beautiful. --only human.
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    Unregistered 2021-07-20 18:07:34
    The song was written by a woman. She had just broken up with her boyfriend. She wants a place in life now but she is probably lost. Just trying to get through another day without a tear on her cheek. Doesn’t get out much. Except on rainy days to watch it come down and only escape is books.
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    Unregistered 2012-08-08 19:54:12
    He is speaking of a lazy life yet, his point of view is not "sane. " maybe he is a rebel wanting to break free of the social bonds which seek to confine him and the pressures placed on males to perform and be providers. When financial needs are not meet pressure is placed on relationships hence the lyrics "i'd like to keep my cheeks dry today. " maybe he is suffering from the cruel reality of life.
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    Unregistered 2012-07-14 21:54:53
    I think he is trying to say his life is just not of the ordinary and he likes to make his point in life but no one understand what he is trying to say and people thing of him as a crazy person, and he wants people not to make fun of him for what he belives and he is saying I wont cry today even people make fun of me by the way he fells along he wants some one to stay close and make him belive he is not insane.
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    Unregistered 2015-08-20 23:11:26
    This song is like nirvana songs. Its meaning is hidden in what the sounds like more so than only the written lyrics. IE: Keep my cheeks dry today sounds like keep my teenage drive today. To me albeit possible that I have stuck my own life lessons into it means his lover and fav. Person in the world is not his girlfriend she is a cheater a player. He loves her with everything and depends on her presence for his happiness. Even tho she doesn't feel entirely the same. He knows it's not sane to obsess over her. But it's also not sane for her to look past him because one day she will be in his shoes she will be used up none she is using will feel the same about her and after he moves on and finds a true life partner. She will realize she was the one that wasn't sane. She didn't notice her soul mate. And their loss will echo thru their souls forever. This is a problem our society forces far to many beautiful relationships into. It's not sane.
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    Unregistered 2016-07-13 22:24:15
    I thought I heard the lyrics "you know I like to keep my tea fully straine" oh dear. I thought it is about a person with mental illness and trying to keep the relationship and also explain what is happening to them everyday- how they feel, what they think etc with this illness. They trying to say that its not normal for someone to be like this but he/she is and this is what its like. He may even be talking about someone with Dementia or Alzheimers.
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    Unregistered 2016-06-21 15:36:35
    I never heard the line "keep my cheeks dry today" line correctly. I heard it as "keep my cheating strategy" which could have meant cheating on a romantic partner, cheating a business partner, cheating at gambling, or general dishonesty. "Not sane" could have been a sarcastic swipe at those who disagreed with him as if he were insane, or a hint at suffering genuine mental illness. Now that I know the "cheeks dry" line I see the sadness more but it removes the other intriguing implications around "cheating" since that word isn't even in there. But this song sure brings back memories of college for me, in the early 1990s. Wish we'd had internet resources then for looking up songs and discussing them. But so much was different then. The song always seemed plaintive and mournful, especially with teh quality of the singer's voice.
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    Unregistered 2022-12-29 04:55:05
    Brad Smith ( the lyricist) said he wrote the song about a girl he was seeing, who was going through a profound depression, had an aversion to sunlight, and could only tolerate being up during daylight when the rain took away the sun. He said he was convinced he was writing the song from her POV, but eventually realized it was about him all along.

    He said “ it’s about finding reasons to get up in the morning when you really don’t have any reasons.” Which is… deep.
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