2025 Competition Entry:
Use A Little Rain by Son Lewis
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Genre
Blues
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Performer(s)
Son Lewis performs ALL instruments and vocals on this recording.
Description
Blues Americana about Rain and it’s ability to wash away a variety of pain and sins.
Bio
Silk City Recording Artist Son Lewis has been an active figure on the Northeast Blues scene since the early 1970’s. He is a recipient of a 1995 Recording Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (resulting in his internationally acclaimed recording “Next Train Smokin’”) and was nominated in 2013 for WC Handy Award for producing the Album “Someday….” by Blues Legend Otis Spann. As a performer, he has worked as a Solo Artist and with The Son Lewis Band for nearly 5 decades. His recorded songs have been featured on TV in NCIS and in major studio and independent films, as well as world-wide Blues Radio and Podcasts… Son has become known as a faithful and loving interpreter of classic Blues and traditional Americana music in live performance, TV, radio, and on recordings. He is currently a Roster Artist for the PA Council for the Arts “Artist in Residence” Program for Blues in Schools.
Lyrics
I Could Use a Little Rain
Music and Lyrics: Son Lewis
I could use a little understanding
Something to wash away a little pain
I need a way to clean out all the darkness
I could use a little rain.
I’d enjoy a bit of conversation
Something light to help pass the time
Talk about things that might really matter
And not just focus on things that rhyme….
Chorus
I’m a little crazy, but it stops me going insane
Looking at this dry parched blacktop,
I could use a little rain
Can you bring a little rain?
I could use a little rain
Wash away all the dark confusion,
so that we can start fresh again
and make something grow and prosper
once we wash away all this pain…
Every love needs to be kept flowing
Like the sweet cool forest streams
Sunshine glinting off clear rain droplets
Shining down so it feeds her dreams
Chorus
I’m a little bit crazy, but it stops me going insane
Looking at this dry parched blacktop,
I could use a little rain
Can you bring a little rain?
I could use a little rain
Music and Lyrics: Son Lewis
I could use a little understanding
Something to wash away a little pain
I need a way to clean out all the darkness
I could use a little rain.
I’d enjoy a bit of conversation
Something light to help pass the time
Talk about things that might really matter
And not just focus on things that rhyme….
Chorus
I’m a little crazy, but it stops me going insane
Looking at this dry parched blacktop,
I could use a little rain
Can you bring a little rain?
I could use a little rain
Wash away all the dark confusion,
so that we can start fresh again
and make something grow and prosper
once we wash away all this pain…
Every love needs to be kept flowing
Like the sweet cool forest streams
Sunshine glinting off clear rain droplets
Shining down so it feeds her dreams
Chorus
I’m a little bit crazy, but it stops me going insane
Looking at this dry parched blacktop,
I could use a little rain
Can you bring a little rain?
I could use a little rain
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