Day 2: Praying For Rain

About The Song

Petrachore. It’s the word for the smell of rain. When you’re so desperate for just that little sign that things are going to get better; even the smell of it would be enough to hold on.

I wrote Praying for Rain with Melody Moko when Australia was experiencing one of the worst droughts in a hundred years. It was also on fire. So many places were literally turning to ash. It was the perfect backdrop for what I was experiencing inside; the end of my marriage. We were two people who loved each other becoming strangers in the same house. This I guess was a last ditch effort but in hindsight I guess Garth Brookes was right when he said “Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers”.

Singing this song nearly always brings me undone. Even with the passing of time, remembering back to that time and space in my life brings up a sense of longing and yearning that I hope I never have to experience again.

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Lyrics

Praying For Rain

I’m always on the other side, of a dusty window pain.

Where everything’s so dry, it’s like it’s always been that way

Even just the perfume, if I could smell it in the air

Would I sell my soul and chase it, when I know there’s nothing there?

‘Cause I don’t need thunder

I’m not asking for storms

Just a million little rain drops

Maybe then a million more

When the whole world is on fire

All this sunshine goes to waste

If you wanna come and find me

I’ll be praying for rain

Everything’s so barren. See the cracks start to appear.

It’s not about the flowers. Even weeds ain’t growing here.

What I’d give to dance in showers, feel it on my skin.

Yeah I’d sell my soul and chase that, if I knew that it was real.